{"id":230160,"date":"2026-01-30T10:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/name-it-to-tame-it-researcher-discovers-technique-to-reduce-cigarette-cravings"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:11:52","slug":"name-it-to-tame-it-researcher-discovers-technique-to-reduce-cigarette-cravings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/name-it-to-tame-it-researcher-discovers-technique-to-reduce-cigarette-cravings","title":{"rendered":"Name it to tame it: Researcher discovers technique to reduce cigarette cravings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/name-it-to-tame-it-researcher-discovers-technique-to-reduce-cigarette-cravings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you name it, you can tame it. That\u2019s a new tool for fighting cigarette cravings, according to assistant research psychologist Golnaz Tabibnia.<\/p>\n<p>Her discovery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41386-025-02297-8\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Neuropsychopharmacology<\/i>, reveals that a technique she dubbed \u201ccue labeling\u201d\u2014mentally naming the triggers that make you want to smoke\u2014can reduce the subjective experience of craving and the brain activity associated with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cName it to tame it! Putting feelings into words has long been known to calm emotions,\u201d Tabibnia wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/golnaz-tabibnia-b5464b4_name-it-to-tame-it-putting-feelings-into-activity-7407836661012660224-hgWU\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> when announcing the publication. \u201cOur latest paper shows that putting what we crave into words can help calm cravings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you name it, you can tame it. That\u2019s a new tool for fighting cigarette cravings, according to assistant research psychologist Golnaz Tabibnia. Her discovery, published in Neuropsychopharmacology, reveals that a technique she dubbed \u201ccue labeling\u201d\u2014mentally naming the triggers that make you want to smoke\u2014can reduce the subjective experience of craving and the brain activity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}