Informing Tobacco Treatment Guidelines for African American Non-Daily Smokers

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-03-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The researchers are testing if counseling alone or counseling plus over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapies (NRT), like the patch,gum, or lozenge, helps African American non-daily smokers quit smoking.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center
• Collaborator: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• African American adults who are interested in quitting and whose smoking patterns meet criteria for non-daily smoking as determined by eligibility screening

Exclusion Criteria:

• Contraindications to behavioral counseling, nicotine gum, patch, or lozenge and unable to complete study procedures as determined by eligibility screening