Project HOPES: Healthy Options for Pain and Ending Smoking. A Program for Cancer Survivors.

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-03-09
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The proposed pilot study will develop and test feasibility, acceptability, and signal for efficacy of a smoking cessation and pain management intervention for 20 cancer survivors.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Duke University
• Treatments: Varenicline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with cancer at our targeted recruitment sites

• Have a diagnosis of cancer within the past 5 years (can be currently undergoing treatment)

• Have a life expectancy of at least 1 year

• Report pain within the last 3 weeks of 3 or higher on a 10 point scale

• Have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime

• Smoke 5 or more cigarettes per day in the prior 7 days

• Be willing to try to quit smoking

• Not participating in another smoking cessation trial

• Age 18 or older

• Speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hearing impaired

• Deemed too sick to participate

• Evidence of unstable cognitive or mental health problems who cannot properly provide consent