Determinants of Smoking Cessation Among Latinos

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The goal of this study is to learn how neighborhood and individual factors affect the ability to stop smoking among Spanish-speaking Mexican American (MA) smokers who want to quit smoking.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Collaborators: Department of Health and Human Services; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Current daily smoker who average >/= 5 cigarettes/day for the last year

2. Mexican-American (MA) Adults from the Houston-based MA Cohort Study and/or from the community

3. Age 18 to 65 years

4. Motivated to quit smoking in the next 30 days

5. Viable (working) telephone number and home address

6. Prefers to speak in Spanish

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

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Contraindication for nicotine patch use

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

3. Use of nicotine replacement therapy products or other smoking cessation medications, other than the nicotine patches supplied during the study

4. Pregnancy or lactation

5. Currently enrolled in a smoking cessation program

6. Participation in a smoking cessation program or study during the past 90 days

7. Another household member is enrolled in this protocol

8. Active substance abuse problem