Integrating Financial Coaching and Smoking Cessation Coaching

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2027-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study conduct a two-arm, parallel-group randomized controlled trial. The study will recruit and randomize 900 smokers (n=450 per arm) to either: (1) Control: Standard Smoking Cessation Counseling or (2) Intervention: Integrated Financial-Smoking Cessation Counseling.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: NYU Langone Health
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• age ≥18 years,

• smokes ≥5 cigarettes per day,

• interested in receiving smoking and financial counseling,

• self-reported income below 200% of the current federal poverty level,

• New York City resident,

• speaks English or Spanish language (the interventions and measures have not been validated in other languages),

• able to provide informed consent, and

• does not have a representative who manages his/her funds.

Exclusion Criteria

• people who know a current past study participant (to avoid intervention contamination)

• People who have a medical contraindication to using nicotine replacement therapy:

• allergy to nicotine patch

• pregnancy or intention to become pregnant over the next 12 months

• breastfeeding

• heart attack in the past 2 months

• underlying arrhythmia

• ongoing or worsening angina.