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Increasing Smoking Cessation Success Through Sleep-amplified Memory Consolidation
Sponsor: Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Summary
The goal of this subproject is to examine the hypothesized improvement of treatment with chess-based training and sleep enhancement, both together and on their own, in smokers. Participants will undergo fMRI measurements, sleep monitoring. They will then be assigned to one of the four experimental groups, including high-intensity interval training with or without chess-based training.
Official title: Increasing the Smoking Cessation Success Rate by Enhancing Improvement of Self-control Through Sleep-amplified Memory Consolidation
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
140
Start Date
2024-04-01
Completion Date
2026-06-30
Last Updated
2025-01-31
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Standard smoking cessation program (SCP)
Each subject will receive a standard SCP as group treatment once a week (1h) over six weeks. This group therapy is based on behavioural therapy and a psycho-educational approach (for more details see Batra \& Buchkremer, 2004), and will be carried out by a qualified therapist.
Cognitive remediation treatment (CRT)
The cognitive remediation treatment (CRT) employs a chess-based battery of tasks (delivered through an app-based online tool), two times per week over six weeks (60min duration per session).
High-intensity interval training (HIIT evening)
The high-intensity interval training will be delivered through an app environment with several choices of exercise, two times per week over six weeks. The training will include a 5-minutes warm-up and cool down phase. In between, participants will perform four 4-minutes blocks of exercise at high intensity, interspersed with three 3-minute blocks of low intensity (total of 35 minutes exercise).
Locations (1)
Klinik für Abhängiges Verhalten, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit
Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany