Music to Reduce Use of Smoking in Patients With Schizophrenia

Inclusion Criteria: * clinician verification diagnosis of Schizophrenia or Schizoaffective Disorder * smoked at least 10 cigarettes per day for the past month * score of 4 or more on the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence73 * psychiatric stability (e.g., no psychiatric hospitalizations within the last year, no expectation for medication change during study participation, no active suicidal ideation, no symptoms that interfere with ability to participate in study activities) * the capacity to participate in the informed consent process Exclusion Criteria: * being medically unstable (e.g., medical condition that requires frequent medical appointments or hospitalizations and interferes with ability to participate in study activities) * report active substance abuse or testing positive drug or alcohol use * taking bupropion, varenicline, nicotine replacement products and/or involved in any other smoking cessation treatment * participating in any treatment or activity that includes music as a focus * having a seizure disorder, other neurological illnesses, or a family history of seizures