ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2013
Mindful attention reduces neural and self-reported cue-induced craving in smokers.
Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 4 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 116 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
116 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 275 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cue-Elicited Brain Activity and Treatment Outcomes in Substance Use Disorders: A Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- Do mindfulness-based interventions change brain function in people with substance dependence? A systematic review of the fMRI evidence.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Comparing reappraisal and acceptance strategies to understand the neural architecture of emotion regulation: a meta-analytic approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Association of Drug Cues and Craving With Drug Use and Relapse: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Patterns of brain function associated with cannabis cue-reactivity in regular cannabis users: a systematic review of fMRI studies.Psychopharmacology · 2021Pooled it
- Differences in Magnitude of Cue Reactivity Across Durations of Smoking History: A Meta-analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Pooled it
- Effects and Moderators of Computer-Based Training on Children's Executive Functions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Neuroimaging craving: urge intensity matters.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Pooled it
- Mind-body practices: an alternative, drug-free treatment for smoking cessation? A systematic review of the literature.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2013Pooled it
- Targeting cortico-striatal-amygdalar networks via theta-band frontoparietal synchronization in opioid use disorder: a randomized tACS-fMRI Trial.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Efficacy and Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness Meditation Among Adults With Internet Gaming Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Randomized trial of mindfulness- and reappraisal-based regulation of craving training among daily cigarette smokers.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Trial
- Virtual Reality Smartphone-Based Intervention for Smoking Cessation: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial on Initial Clinical Efficacy and Adherence.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Trial
- Craving to Quit: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Smartphone App-Based Mindfulness Training for Smoking Cessation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Trial
- Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Reduce Heavy Drinking: A Double-Blind Sham-Controlled Randomized Trial.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Trial
- Evaluation of the mindfulness-augmented "Trampoline" programme - a German prevention programme for children from substance-involved families tested in a cluster-randomised trial.BMC public health · 2019Trial
- Randomized trial comparing mindfulness training for smokers to a matched control.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2014Trial
- Mindfulness-based relapse prevention for substance craving.Addictive behaviors · 2013Trial
- Orbitofrontal-ventral striatal coupling: A model of the neurobehavioral architecture of craving in substance use disorders.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Craving mediates the association between affect and substance use in daily life among individuals with substance use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
An emerging body of research suggests that mindfulness-based interventions may be beneficial for smoking cessation and the treatment of other addictive disorders. One way that mindfulness may facilitate smoking cessation is through the reduction of craving to smoking cues. The present work considers whether mindful attention can reduce self-reported and neural markers of cue-induced craving in treatment seeking smokers. Forty-seven (n = 47) meditation-naïve treatment-seeking smokers (12-h abstinent from smoking) viewed and made ratings of smoking and neutral images while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants were trained and instructed to view these images passively or with mindful attention. Results indicated that mindful attention reduced self-reported craving to smoking images, and reduced neural activity in a craving-related region of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex (sgACC). Moreover, a psychophysiological interaction analysis revealed that mindful attention reduced functional connectivity between sgACC and other craving-related regions compared to passively viewing smoking images, suggesting that mindfulness may decouple craving neurocircuitry when viewing smoking cues. These results provide an initial indication that mindful attention may describe a 'bottom-up' attention to one's present moment experience in ways that can help reduce subjective and neural reactivity to smoking cues in smokers.
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