Pager-Assisted Smoking Cessation Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2005-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The proposed study tests the efficacy of using pager-assisted messages combined with nicotine patches in facilitating smoking cessation and relapse prevention in a 2-arm randomized clinical trial. The hypothesis is that the proportion of biochemically-verified quitters at 3 and 12 months in the study arm randomized to receive therapeutic messages on alphanumeric pagers for 3 months along with individual smoking cessation counseling and nicotine patches will be greater that the proportion of biochemically-verified quitters who receive only individual smoking cessation counseling and nicotine patches.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• smoking 10 or more cigarettes per day

• aged 18 or older

• motivated to quit smoking and prepared to set a quit date

• willing to use nicotine patches

• ability to come to therapy sessions and be followed by telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

• individuals who are psychotic

• severely depressed

• organically brain impaired

• actively abusing alcohol or other substances, and/or who have been drug dependent during the past six months

• terminally ill

• unable to be contacted by phone,currently using nicotine replacement or smoking cessation medications

• those with contraindications to nicotine patches, female smokers who are pregnant or breastfeeding