@article{ref1,
title="Integrated Smoking Cessation and Binge Drinking Intervention for Young Adults: a Pilot Investigation",
journal="Annals of behavioral medicine",
year="2010",
author="Ames, Steven C. and Werch, Chudley E. and Ames, Gretchen E. and Lange, Lori J. and Schroeder, Darrell R. and Hanson, Andrew C. and Patten, Christi A.",
volume="40",
number="3",
pages="343-349",
abstract="Background Alcohol consumption is strongly associated with cigarette smoking in young adults. <br><br>PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the acceptability and estimate the magnitude of the effect of a novel-integrated smoking cessation and binge-drinking intervention for young adults compared with standard treatment control. <br><br>METHODS Participants were 41 young adult smokers (≥10 cigarettes per day) who regularly (≥2 times per month) binge drank who were randomly assigned to standard treatment (n = 19) involving eight individual treatment visits plus 8 weeks of nicotine patch therapy or the identical smoking cessation treatment integrated with a binge-drinking intervention (integrated intervention; n = 22). <br><br>RESULTS Participants rated integrated intervention as highly acceptable as indicated by 100% of participants rating helpfulness as 5 on 5-point scale. Using an intent-to-treat analysis for tobacco abstinence, at both week 12 end of treatment and week 24 follow-up, more participants who received integrated intervention were biochemically confirmed abstinent from tobacco than those who received standard treatment (36% vs. 21% at week 12; 23% vs. 11% at week 24). At week 24, change from baseline in binge-drinking episodes, drinks consumed, and drinking days between treatment groups were similar (intent-to-treat analysis was not used for alcohol data). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS Preliminary data support the intriguing possibility that integrated intervention may enhance smoking cessation and reduce binge drinking.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0883-6612",
doi="10.1007/s12160-010-9222-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12160-010-9222-4"
}