Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation Among Mothers

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Investigators will examine whether adding financial incentives and nicotine replacement dual therapy to current best practices for smoking cessation (i.e. referral to counseling using a telephone quit line) increases cessation rates in mothers and reduces second-hand smoke exposure in children. While perhaps more expensive upfront compared to best practices alone, the investigators hypothesize that this treatment approach will be a more cost-effective cessation intervention.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Vermont
• Collaborator: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Expresses interest in quitting smoking

• Express willingness to initiate NRT

• Mother is ≥ 18 years of age

• Self-reported smoking ≥ 10 cigarettes per day for ≥ 1 year, biochemically verified

• Mother has a child < 12 years of age

• Child resides with mother full-time

• Not currently using any other tobacco cessation medications (e.g. Chantix) or NRT, or willing to stop use prior to participation in the study

• Lives in Chittenden County, Vermont or surrounding counties

• Plans on remaining in the geographical area for the next 12 months

• English-speaking

• Willing to let child participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Failing to meet any of the above criteria

• Has medical contraindications to NRT products

• Meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria for moderate or severe alcohol or drug dependence other than nicotine in the prior 12 months (those on opioid substitution therapy are allowed)

• Current/past psychotic disorder

• Being suicidal

• Currently pregnant or trying to become pregnant in the next 12 months

• Incarceration

• Refusal to participate in study