Cue exposure treatment through virtual reality reduce cigarette craving in real life environments

Abstract:

Previous studies have shown that cigarette craving can be effectively reduced through virtual reality cue exposure treatment (VR-CET) in the laboratory. However, to date no study has analyzed the generalization of VR-CET effects in real world contexts. The main objective of this study was to explore the influence of VR-CET into real life. The results of this research show that cigarette craving towards smoking-related cues into real life was reduced after treatment. This finding provides evidence that VR-CET could improve extinction generalizability across contexts which could be critically important for the efficacy of smoking cessation treatments.

Año de publicación:

2016

Keywords:

• Cigarette craving
• Cue exposure treatment
• Virtual Reality
• Real world contexts

Fuente:

scopus