This paper presents personal reflections on the history, current status and the future of
research on smoking relapse. Relapse was traditionally viewed primarily as an outcome, to …

This report offers frameworks within which research investigations of smoking relapse might
be conceptualized. First. variables that have been Or should be investigated in relation to …

Smoking cessation treatments now regularly produce cigarette abstinence in 90 to 100
percent of clients (eg, Erickson et al. 1983; Hall et al. 1984; Tiffany et al. 1985). Despite …

Relapse is by far the most likely outcome of any smoking cessation attempt, even those
made with the benefit intensive psychosocial treatment and pharmacotherapy. The present …

Current smoking cessation treatments seem to differ from one another in the proportion of ex‐
smokers who survive the first few days of the quit attempt. After this initial effect, parallel …

This paper reviews nicotine addiction, and discusses the difficulty of withdrawing and
remaining abstinent from tobacco. Lapse and relapse are coming to be understood as part …

Cigarette smoking remains the most preventable cause of illness and death in our society
today. Upwards of 430,000 smokers die in the United States alone each year (Centers for …

Most clinical trials use 6 months or 1 year follow-ups as proxies for life-time smoking
cessation. Retrospective studies have estimated 2–15% of smokers relapse each year after …

Abstract provides a detailed and up-to-date review of the four major approaches to
understanding smoking relapse [conditioning approaches, Marlatt's cognitive-behavioural …

Aims To estimate predictors of time to smoking relapse and test if prediction varied by quit
duration. Design Longitudinal cohort data from the International Tobacco Control Four …