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Relapse Situations According to Marlatt’s Taxonomy in Smokers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2013

Bárbara Piñeiro  and
Elisardo Becoña
Bárbara Piñeiro*
Affiliation:
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Elisardo Becoña
Affiliation:
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
*
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bárbara Piñeiro. Smoking Cessation Unit. Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology. Faculty of Psychology. Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 15782. Santiago de Compostela. La Coruña (Spain). E-mail: barbara.pineiro@usc.es
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Abstract

Relapse is common during the process of giving up smoking. The aim of the present study is to explore the relapse situations, according to Marlatt’s relapse taxonomy, in a sample of 428 smokers (43.9% men and 56.1% women) who participated in a cognitive-behavior psychological treatment for quitting smoking. At the end of the treatment, 221 participants were abstinent, of whom 119 (41.2% men and 58.8% women) relapsed in the course of the 12-month follow-up, the majority in the first 3 months (69.74%). Most of the relapses were attributed to intrapersonal and environmental determinants (61.33%), the most common of which were “coping with negative emotional states” (38.65%), followed by “giving in to temptations or urges” (9.24%) and “testing personal control” (8.40%). Interpersonal determinants occurred in 38.66% of relapses, this percentage being made up mostly of “social pressure”, which was the relapse situation in 34.46% of all relapses. These results, similar to those of Marlatt’s original studies and others, contribute to improving our knowledge of the relapse situations process, with a view to interventions that may help to avoid it.

Keywords

relapsetaxonomysmoking cessationsituations
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Research Article
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The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 16 , 2013 , E91
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Copyright © Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid 2013 

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