A Web‐based Contingency Management Program With Adolescent Smokers

Abstract

The present study evaluated a new 30-day Web-based contingency management program for smoking abstinence with 4 daily-smoking adolescents. Participants made 3 daily video recordings of themselves giving breath carbon monoxide (CO) samples at home that were sent electronically to study personnel. Using a reversal design, participants could earn money for continued abstinence during the treatment phases (CO < or =5 ppm). All participants were compliant with the treatment (submitting 97.2% of samples), and all achieved prolonged abstinence from smoking.

Internet-based contingency management increases walking in sedentary adults

“…Although limited transportation to treatment centers is sometimes a practical limitation of CM, this problem is eliminated via Internet-based interventions. For example, Dallery and colleagues (Dallery & Glenn, 2005;Dallery, Glenn, & Raiff, 2007;Dallery, Meredith, & Glenn, 2008;Meredith, Grabinski, & Dallery, 2011;Reynolds, Dallery, Shroff, Patak, & Leraas, 2008;Stoops et al, 2009) employed Internet technology in which smokers submitted breath carbon monoxide (CO) samples via a web camera. Voucher-based reinforcement was contingent on breath CO levels below a cutpoint for abstinence.…”

“…Because of this, and to capitalize on the accessibility of Internet-based interventions, we adapted an Internet-based CM intervention designed for smoking cessation (Dallery & Glenn, 2005;Dallery et al, 2007Dallery et al, , 2008Meredith et al, 2011;Reynolds et al, 2008;Stoops et al, 2009) to promote physical activity. People 50 and older are both the most sedentary segment of the adult population (King, Rejeski, & Buchner, 1998;Troiano et al, 2007) and are a fast-growing group of Internet users (Marcus, Ciccolo, & Sciamanna, 2009), making them good candidates for an Internet-based CM intervention to increase activity.…”

Optimizing behavioral health interventions with single-case designs: from development to dissemination

“…The Raiff and Dallery study, therefore, was also a systematic replication of effects of internet-based CM to promote smoking cessation to a new problem and to a new group of participants because the procedure had originally been tested with adult smokers [24]. Effects of internet-based CM for smoking cessation also were systematically replicated in an application to adolescent smokers using a single-case design [74].…”

Prize-based contingency management: A vehicle miles of travel reduction intervention

“…Petry (2000) outlined the three tenets in her review of contingency management procedures in clinical Lewis, 2008;Petry, 2000;Prendergast, Podus, Finney, Greenwell, & Roll, 2006). Specifically, contingency management techniques have been found to be efficacious in treating drug dependency such as cocaine (Higgins et al, 1991(Higgins et al, , 1993(Higgins et al, , 1994Higgins, Wong, Badger, Ogden, & Dantona, 2000), marijuana (Budney, Higgins, Radonovich, & Novy, 2000), alcohol (Petry, Martin, Cooney, & Kranzler, 2000), opiods (Bickel, Amass, Higgins, Badger, & Esch, 1997;Preston et al, 1998;Rawson et al, 2002;, cigarettes (Reynolds, Dallery, Shroff, Patak, & Leraas, 2008;Roll, Higgins, & Badger, 1996;Stitzer & Bigelow, 1982), methamphetamines , benzodiazepines (Stitzer et al, 1992), and multiple drug users (Piotrowski et al, 1999;Preston et al, 1999). Evidence has also been found for the long-term efficacy of these contingency management techniques in maintaining target behaviors beyond the treatment period.…”

“…Contingency management techniques have also been found effective in a variety of other behaviors and settings including safety performance in open-pit mining (Fox, Hopkins, & Anger, 1987), paper recycling (Witmer & Geller, 1976), pedestrian safety (Boyce & Geller, 2000), web-based carbon monoxide testing for adolescent smoking abstinence (Reynolds et al, 2008), attendance in group therapy (Alessi, Hanson, Wieners, & Petry, 2007), and vocational rehabilitation of military veterans with comorbid psychosocial disorders (Drebing et al, 2007).…”