PHYSICS LETTERS B, cilt.390, ss.335-340, 1997 (SCI-Expanded)
We calculate the strong coupling constants g(p**p*pi), where P** (D**, B**) is the 1(+) p-wave state, in the framework of the light-cone QCD sum rules, and using these values of g(p**p*pi), we compute the hadronic decay widths for D** --> D*pi and B** --> B*pi.