Participants were informed of their random group assignment (treatment vs. delayed treatment) following their first laboratory (baseline) session. Participants in the treatment regimen were assigned to a doctorate-level smoking-cessation counselor, who provided 30 min of behaviorally based smoking cessation counseling immediately following each of the four laboratory sessions. Smoking quit dates were assigned to occur 4 –5 days after the baseline session. The cessation intervention was cognitive– behavioral in nature and adapted from smoking cessation guideline-based treatment used in our previous studies (Cinciripini et al., 2005). However, no nicotine replacement or other pharmacotherapy was provided. Smokers in the treatment group who were not abstinent at the end of the last laboratory session were offered a free 10-week supply of nicotine patches. Participants in the control group were offered delayed treatment, which consisted of self-help materials based on the counseling program described above, and were provided with a free 10-week supply of nicotine patches. Both were provided after the last laboratory session.
