Effects of Mindfulness Meditation in Virtual Reality on Craving and Smoking Cessation

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-75
SponsorCentre Hospitalier Henri Laborit

About this trial

Investigators seek to propose a non-drug therapeutic alternative, namely a mindfulness meditation protocol based on virtual reality training in order to induce progressive modifications of various indicators of craving.

The study hypothesis is that the practice of mindfulness meditation in a virtual reality environment reduces the craving induced by cues and stress and therefore ultimately smoking relapse.

The main objective of the protocol will be to demonstrate that mindfulness meditation can reduce long-term relapse (continuous cessation (\> 30 days) of smoking cessation).

The participants will be randomized into two groups: the experimental group will perform six virtual reality sessions in a multisensory cabin at the rate of one session per week; the control group will be prescribed the gold standard treatment (nicotine patches and chewing gum).

Participants will be seen again at three and six months to assess whether or not there has been a smoking relapse.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Any patient consuming 10 to 40 cigarettes per day

Woman or man aged 18 to 75 inclusive

Substance use disorder according to the DSM5 classification

Benefit from social security or benefit from it through a third party in accordance with French law on research involving the human person

Disqualifiers

Disabling cognitive disorders

Patient under 18 or over 75 years old.

Patient with a psychological disorder or a psychiatric pathology requiring specialized follow-up

Patient with addiction to another product.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Virtual reality pod
  • nicotine patches and chewing gum

Treatment groups

200 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups