Table 1.

Contents of individual counseling sessions.

In-Person Individual Session #1 (approx. 60 mins)

• Introduce the mSMART MIND smoking cessation program.

• Discuss participant’s values, reasons for quitting, negative aspects of smoking, benefits of quitting.

• Provide psychoeducation on depression and smoking cessation, nicotine dependence, and health benefits of quitting.

• Introduce the concept of mindfulness and its relation to quitting smoking.*

• Practice mindfulness exercises: Raisin Exercise and Mindfulness of Breath (using the recording).*

• Explore ways to incorporate mindfulness into daily activities.*

• Discuss strategies to begin preparing for target quit date: changing routines, monitor smoking patterns, and the importance of social support, practicing mindfulness. °

✓ Training in smartphone and CO monitor use: Practice completing an EMA report, and taking/submitting a CO video using the smartphone app (additional approx. 15 min~).

In-Person Individual Session #2 (approx. 50 mins)

• Review mindfulness practice and EMA reports completed in the past week. Explore ways to increase completion rates. Troubleshoot, ensure understanding of the app. °

• Discuss participant's experience practicing mindfulness in daily activities and provide feedback. *

• Discuss participant’s triggers to smoke in the past week and how being mindful may help reduce automatic response (i.e., smoking) to these triggers. °

• Explore strategies to manage high-risk situations, to receive helpful social support, to reward oneself for not smoking, and for healthy stress management. °

• Discuss their experience with craving, introduce the concept of urge surfing, and explore other ways of coping with strong craving, and briefly review nicotine patch use. °

• Discuss participant’s experience of pleasant moments (e.g., sense of joy, pride, accomplishment) and how they may relate to their core values, and explore ways to increase these moments in daily life. *

✓ Review CO video procedure using the smartphone app (additional approx. 5 min).

Two Brief Phone Sessions (15–20 mins each)

• Discuss the participant’s successes and challenges since target quit date.

• Provide encouragement and help identify strategies to stay quit or initiate another quit attempt.

• Encourage to continue practicing mindfulness

^*indicates sections that included only in the SMI-CM.

^°indicates sections that included both in the SMI-CM and EST except that references to or information relevant to mindfulness were excluded in the EST.