Post-Discharge Smoking Cessation Strategies: Helping HAND 4

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-11-17
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This randomized controlled trial will compare the effectiveness of two models of post-discharge tobacco cessation treatment for adult smokers admitted to 3 U.S. hospitals.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital
• Collaborators: University of Pittsburgh; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years of age or older

• Current cigarette smoker (>=1 cigarette in the week before admission and >=1 cigarette/day when smoking at a baseline rate in the month prior to admission)

• Admitted to a study hospital

• Seen by hospital smoking counselor during inpatient stay

• Plans to try to quit smoking after hospital discharge

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to give informed consent or participate in counseling due to serious cognitive or psychiatric disorder (e.g., dementia, psychosis)

• Life expectancy <12 months

• Medical instability

• No reliable telephone access or inability to use telephone

• Non-English speaking

• Pregnant, breastfeeding, to planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months.