Contingency Management for Smoking in Substance Abusers

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to determine whether contingent reinforcement for smoking abstinence, compared to noncontingent reinforcement, increases the effectiveness of brief counseling and nicotine replacement on smoking abstinence of substance abusers in residential treatment.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Brown University
• Collaborator: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• diagnosis of substance abuse or dependence by DSM-IV criteria

• in residential treatment at one particular agency

• currently smoking at least 10 cigarettes per day for the past 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• hallucinating or delusional or marked organic impairment (to the point of impairing ability to understand informed consent) according to medical records

• current use of nicotine replacement therapy, Zyban, or any other smoking cessation treatment

• medical exclusions for NRT: pregnant or nursing; treatment in the last 3 months for unstable angina, severe congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension; lung cancer; supplemental oxygen; history of adverse reactions to NRT; allergies to adhesive; or any severe skin disease that requires treatment (e.g., psoriasis or eczema).