December 7, 2010 - Researchers have been experimenting with ways to make psychotherapy more accessible to people who cannot come in to see a therapist regularly. The pilot study on using cessation interventions via telephone yielded some promising outcomes, with 29% of participants no longer smoking after one year. According the authors of the study, this success rate is more than twice that of other telephone interventions and comparable to face-to-face interventions.

This intervention, called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), offers promising evidence that brief ACT-based telephone counseling for smoking cessation may be effective.

For more information:
http://www.scientificmindfulness.com/2010/12/telephone-delivered-acceptance-and.html