Strategies to Help Adult ED Patients Quit Smoking

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a brief, focused intervention in the hospital emergency department is effective in helping adults quit smoking.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• >= 10 cigarettes smoked daily

• being discharged from the ED

• contemplation or preparation stage of change

• speaks English or Spanish

Exclusion Criteria:

• being admitted to hospital

• too ill to consent