Article Excerpt: Abstain from smoking, get virtual tokens to unlock your favorite apps. Puff away, and your smartphone applications stay locked. That’s the choice smokers attempting to quit will have when using Re-Connect, the smartphone-based smoking cessation intervention for which the National Institutes of Health awarded Dr. Bethany Raiff a three-year, $658,097grant. Raiff, a Rowan University professor of psychology and director of the Health and Behavioral Integrated Treatments (HABIT) Research Unit, has been working in behavioral health and smoking cessation for more than 15 years. Her research uses the principles of contingency management by applying an incentive—traditionally, money—to encourage the individual to give up smoking.
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Article Source: Rowan University