Community-based Smoking Cessation Treatment for Adults With High Stress Sensitivity.

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2028-06-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Anxiety sensitivity, reflecting the fear of bodily sensations, is a risk factor for the maintenance and relapse of smoking. This study is designed to address the question - is a smoking cessation intervention personalized to high anxiety sensitive smokers and adapted for implementation by the YMCA effective among racially/ethnically diverse samples?

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Jasper A. Smits
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI); University of Houston; University of Oklahoma; YMCA
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult (age ≥ 18);

• High Anxiety Sensitivity (≥5 on the Short Scale Anxiety Sensitivity Index [SSASI]);

• Daily smoker, ≥5 cigarettes (including e-cigarettes, little cigars/cigarillos) for ≥1 year;

• Motivated to quit smoking as evidenced by a score of ≥5 on a 0-10 Likert scale;

• Body mass index <40;

• Medical clearance to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Regular exercise defined as engaging in moderate-intensity exercise ≥3 days per week for ≥20 min each time;

• Receiving current intervention for smoking cessation.