Computer-Assisted Counseling in Helping African American Smokers Stop Smoking

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-08-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Stop-smoking plans using a nicotine patch, in-person counseling, and computer-assisted counseling may help people stop smoking.

PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well computer-assisted counseling helps African American smokers stop smoking.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. African American

2. Age 21 to 65 years

3. Current Smoker (history of at least 5 cigarettes/day for the last year)

4. Motivated to quit within the next 14 days

5. Participants must provide a viable home address and functioning home telephone number

6. Can speak, read, write in English at a sixth-grade literacy level

7. Provide viable collateral contact information

8. Register "8" or more on a carbon monoxide breath test

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Contraindication for nicotine patch use

2. Active substance dependence (exclusive of nicotine dependence)

3. Regular use of tobacco products other than cigarettes (cigars, pipes, smokeless)

4. Use of bupropion or nicotine products other than nicotine patches supplied by the study

5. Pregnancy or lactation

6. Any active illness that precludes full participation in the study protocol

7. Another household member enrolled in the study