Tailored Tobacco Quitline for Rural Veterans

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2013-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The proposed work is designed to help increase access to tobacco cessation services among rural veterans and to develop more effective treatment services that better address comorbid issues commonly experienced by rural smokers. The objectives are:

1. Study the feasibility of an individually-tailored telephone intervention for rural smokers.

2. Examine the impact of the intervention on tobacco use outcomes.

3. Evaluate the effect of the intervention on issues commonly experienced by rural smokers including depressive symptoms, alcohol use, and weight gain.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center; University of Iowa
• Collaborators: US Department of Veterans Affairs; VA Office of Research and Development
• Treatments: Bupropion; Ethanol; Nicotine; Varenicline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Being a veteran

• 18 + years of age

• Smoke cigarettes on at least a daily basis

• Receive primary care from the Iowa City VAMC or Coralville Clinic

• Live in a non-metropolitan area (based on RUCA codes)

• Be willing to make a quit attempt in the next 30 days

• Be capable of providing informed consent

• Have access to a telephone (land line or cell phone)

• Have a stable residence

Exclusion Criteria:

• Planning to move within the next 12 months

• Presence of a terminal illness

• Pregnancy

• Unstable psychiatric disorder (e.g., acute psychosis)

• Currently pregnant

• Incarcerated

• Institutionalized