Leveraging Community Pharmacists to Optimize Smoking Cessation Services for Rural Smokers in Appalachia
Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2028-03-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of a
pharmacist-delivered MTM (medication therapy management) approach, called QuitAid, to
quitting cigarette smoking in rural Appalachia.
The main questions it aims to answer are:
- Is QuitAid, alone or combined with other quitting tobacco treatments, effective?
- What makes QuitAid easy or hard to carry out? Is it cost effective? Is it easy to
maintain?
Treatment:
All participants will be given at least 4 weeks of the nicotine patch.
Some participants will be randomized (like the flip of a coin) to receive additional
treatments (listed below).
These groups will be compared to each other to see which combination works best to help them
quit smoking.
- Smokefree TXT - a texting program that helps people quit smoking
- Tobacco quitline - 4 phone sessions to help people quit smoking
- 8 weeks of NRT (nicotine replacement therapy in the form of nicotine patches or nicotine
patches and lozenge) medication instead of 4 weeks
- QuitAid - An MTM program given by the patient's pharmacist. This is a quitting smoking
coaching program
- Nicotine patch AND nicotine lozenge instead of just nicotine patches