Dr. Patricia Cioe and colleagues published a manuscript from the recently completed MindUP study, funded by the Rohsenow Pilot Funding Award at the Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies. The paper, titled, App-Delivered Mindfulness Training to Reduce Anxiety in People with HIV Who Smoke: A One-Armed Feasibility Trial, is published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 

The open pilot study found that after 4 weeks of mindfulness training via smartphone app, anxiety was reduced and readiness to quit was increased, perhaps a key time point for a smoking cessation attempt.

Co-authors are Alexander Sokolovsky, PhD, Judson Brewer, PhD, and Christopher Kahler, PhD.