“…In other words, the review is restricted to studies in which the experimental manipulation or intervention consists only of mindfulness components. Such an approach inevitably excludes interventions that combine mindfulness strategies with other therapeutic approaches 1 1 A number of existing reviews already examine the effects of these types of multicomponent mindfulness-based interventions in areas relevant to craving, including substance use disorders (Chiesa & Serretti, 2014;Zgierska et al, 2009), substance misuse (Li, Howard, Garland, McGovern & Lazar, 2017), smoking cessation (Maglione et al, 2017), binge eating, emotional eating and weight loss (Katterman, Kleinman, Hood, Nackers & Corsica, 2014;Olson & Emery, 2015;O'Reilly, Cook, Spruijt-Metz & Black, 2014).…”