Texting to Promote Tobacco Abstinence in Emergency Department Smokers: A Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a pilot study to test the feasibility of conducting a text based smoking cessation trial with Emergency Department patients who are smokers.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yale University
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI); National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18 years or older

• have smoked >= 100 cigarettes lifetime

• describe themselves as every or some day smokers

• are able to give written informed consent

• reside in Connecticut

• own a cell phone with texting capability.

Exclusion Criteria:

• inability to read or understand English

• currently receiving formal tobacco dependence treatment

• current use of tobacco cessation products (patch, gum, inhaler, nasal spray, lozenge, e-cigarette)

• currently using Zyban (bupropion), Wellbutrin (bupropion) or Chantix (varenicline) for smoking cessation

• current suicide or homicide risk

• current psychotic disorder

• life-threatening or unstable medical or psychiatric condition

• does not have phone with CT area code and with texting capability

• lacks capacity to give informed consent

• leaving the ED against medical advice

• pregnant, nursing, or trying to conceive

• incarcerated

• resides in an extended care facility