Brady Reynolds, Jesse Dallery, Palak Shroff, Michele Patak, & Kristen Leraas. (2008) A web-based contingency management program with adolescent smokers. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 41, 597-601.

The present study evaluated a new 30-day Web-based contingency management program for smoking abstinence with 4 daily-smoking adolescents. Participants made 3 daily video recordings of themselves giving breath carbon monoxide (CO) samples at home that were sent electronically to study personnel. Using a reversal design, participants could earn money for continued abstinence during the treatment phases (CO < 5 ppm). All participants were compliant with the treatment (submitting 97.2% of samples), and all achieved prolonged abstinence from smoking.

DESCRIPTORS: adolescents, cigarette smoking, contingency management, drug abstinence treatment