Increasing the smoking cessation success rate by enhancing improvement of self-control through sleep-amplified memory consolidation (C01)

• Subject Area: Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ; General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 402170461

Data from the 1st FP indicates that enhancing cognitive control using chess-based training can improve outcomes of a standard smoking cessation program. The current project will harness three means to build on this success by enhancing cognitive control by: (i) using our tried-and-tested chess-based training, (ii) improving sleep using high-intensity interval training, and(iii) increasing sleep-dependent consolidation of the chess-based training. We hypothesise that each approach on its own but also in combination with each other yield a highly efficient boost to standard smoking cessation treatment.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 265: Losing and Regaining Control over Drug Intake: From Trajectories to Mechanisms to Interventions
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Karen Ersche, since 7/2023; Privatdozent Dr. Gordon Feld, since 7/2023; Professorin Dr. Herta Flor, until 6/2023; Professorin Dr. Sabine Vollstädt-Klein