Project Impact 2: A Culturally Tailored Smoking Cessation Intervention for Latino Smokers

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-08-22
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The goal of this research study is to learn how 3 different kinds of counseling treatments may help individuals to quit smoking.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Carbon Monoxide; Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adults at least 18 years of age

2. Current smoker (>5 cigarettes per day for the past 3 months)

3. Able to speak and read English or Spanish

4. Agree to participate in the study and be available for 6 weeks of treatment and 6 months of follow-up

5. Willing to set a quit date within 2 weeks of enrollment date

6. Identify as being of Latino heritage, ethnicity, or ancestry

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Individuals suffering from any unstable medical condition precluding the use of NRT (Identified using the Medical History Questionnaire given at baseline)

2. Currently using smokeless tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), nicotine replacement therapy, or other smoking cessation treatment

3. Pregnant or nursing

4. Suffering from a severe psychiatric disorder (assessed using self-reporting history of psychiatric diagnosis during the phone screening) that would interfere with participation

5. Diagnosis of substance dependence other than nicotine (screened using DSM IV TR criteria) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition

6. Individuals that do not have access to a working telephone