A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives, Text Messaging, and Usual Care for Homeless Smokers
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2016-08-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The QUIT (Quitting with Usual Care, Incentives, and Technology) Smoking Study is a 3-arm
pilot randomized controlled trial that will test the effect of 2 different experimental
smoking cessation interventions relative to a control condition in homeless cigarette
smokers. All participants will receive free transdermal nicotine patches and weekly in-person
smoking cessation counseling. In addition, participants randomized to the first experimental
condition will receive financial rewards for biochemically-verified smoking abstinence, and
participants randomized to the second experimental condition will be enrolled in a text
messaging program to support smoking abstinence.