Behavioral Intervention for Low Income Depressed Smokers in Drug Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The objective of the proposed project is to develop a novel, behavioral approach to smoking cessation that can be integrated with residential drug use treatment for low income substance using smokers with elevated depressive symptoms. The approach utilizes behavioral activation strategies which have been shown to reduce smoking among community samples and which can be easily targeted for the particular needs of low income substance users.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Maryland; University of Maryland, College Park
• Collaborator: American Cancer Society, Inc.
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• between 18 and 65 years of age

• regular smoker for at least one year

• currently smoking an average ≥ 10 cigarettes (also cigarellos, bidis, or Black and Milds included) per day

• report motivation to quit smoking in the next month

• report elevated depressive symptoms

Exclusion Criteria:

• physical concerns contraindicating the nicotine patch

• limited mental competency and/or the inability to give informed, voluntary, written consent to participate

• current use of pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation not provided by the researchers during the quit attempt

• use of psychotropic medication for < 3 months

• primary use of other tobacco products (specifically: chewing tobacco, cigars, and pipes)

• psychotic symptoms

• current pregnancy or plans to become pregnant within the following three months