Facilitating Smoking Cessation With Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes

The current project will (1) develop a theory-based, user-friendly, and efficient set of targeted cessation materials to facilitate extinction during pre-quit VLNC smoking, (2) establish the feasibility of recruitment and measurement strategies to be used in the RCT, (3) determine whether immediate vs. gradual pre-quit nicotine tapering in combination with the targeted behavioral intervention has beneficial effects (on cessation-related and intermediate outcomes) for eventual comparison with validated cessation methods (e.g., NRT), and (4) examine several potential moderators and mediators of treatment efficacy.