Pre to Postoperative Smoking Cessation

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2017-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The study will evaluate the feasibility of integrating an intensive pre- post-surgical smoking cessation intervention into a hospital setting, and assess measures of postsurgical recovery as a function of smoking cessation status.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
• Treatments: Varenicline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Smoker who has surgery scheduled 5-10 weeks in advance

Exclusion Criteria:

• being contraindicated for varenicline use

• evidence of psychiatric instability

• being unwilling/unable to adhere to the study schedule

• be unwilling to provide study access to medical records

• being otherwise judged by the study team to be inappropriate for study participation