Effectiveness of Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Smoking Cessation during Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment
Received Date: Oct 04, 2020 / Accepted Date: Nov 03, 2020 / Published Date: Nov 10, 2020
Abstract
Objective: Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) has been shown to be effective for smoking cessation in the general population but not during Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment (BMT). We hypothesized that MET performed by psychiatrists in a BMT setting will be effective for smoking cessation.
Methods: This is a retrospective chart review (N=60) of smoking outcomes after 10 MET sessions in patients (N=40) versus patient controls (N=20) treated “as usual”.
Results: After 6 months, 9 (22.5%) “MI” patients quit smoking and 29 (72.5%) were cessation medicationcompliant, while no control quit and only 8 (40%) were compliant.
Conclusions: MET plus evidence-based pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in BMT is more effective than treatment as usual. MET could improve life expectancy and compliance in patients during BMT.
Keywords: Motivational enhancement therapy; Smoking cessation; Buprenorphine maintenance treatment
Citation: Heitner S, Ajulu K, Ajagbe T, Meszaros ZS (2020) Effectiveness of Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Smoking Cessation during Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment. J Addict Res Ther 11: 409.
Copyright: © 2020 Heitner S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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