Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Smokers

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

When smokers are hospitalized they quit smoking, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Most of them, however, go back to smoking soon after discharge. This study will test an innovative approach which includes dispensing nicotine patches at discharge, providing proactive telephone counseling post discharge, or giving a combination of the two. The interventions are aimed at increasing the long term quit rate of these patients.

The specific aims of the study are to demonstrate the effects of two interventions, dispensing nicotine patches at discharge and providing proactive telephone counseling soon after discharge, on 12-month quit rates of hospitalized smokers in a 2 x 2 factorial design.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Diego
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years or older

• Smoke >=6 Cigarettes per day

• English or Spanish speaking

• Valid phone number

• Valid address

• Gave consent to participate in study and evaluation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hospital stay of less than 24 hours

• Inability to communicate orally

• Hypersensitivity to nicotine

• Pregnant

• Hospitalized for psychiatric treatment