Long-term Effectiveness of Mailed Nicotine Replacement Therapy: A 5-year Follow-up

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-08-22
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study will perform a 5-year follow-up survey of participants in a randomized controlled trial that evaluated the effectiveness of providing 5 weeks of free NRT (in the form of the nicotine patch) by expedited postal mail without behavioural assistance to regular adult smokers recruited across Canada interested in receiving it (clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01429129).

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Collaborators: Canadian Cancer Society (CCS); Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (CCSRI)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years of age and older

• Current daily smokers who smoke 10 or more cigarettes per day

• Interested in being involved in a smoking study

• Willing to be interviewed at baseline, 8 weeks and 6 months after

• Willing to provide a saliva sample for cotinine analysis at each time point

• Interest in using nicotine patch to quit smoking

• Intent to use nicotine patch within one week of receiving it

• Willing to have nicotine patch sent to their home

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have a medical condition that would would make participation medically hazardous as determined by the list of contraindications for NRT outlined in the CPS and the NRT package insert

• Pregnant, intending on becoming pregnant, or nursing