Treating Smokers With Mental Illness

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-05-04
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a smoking cessation study that will enroll smokers who have been diagnosed with a severe mental illness. The study will use a combination of intensive tobacco treatment counseling and nicotine replacement therapy to assist smokers in cutting back on and quitting smoking over the course of six months.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
• Collaborators: Brown University; Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• have a severe mental illness diagnosis

• be a daily smoker

• be willing to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day leading to a quit attempt

• want to try to quit smoking

• be willing to use nicotine replacement therapy

• be able to communicate in English

Exclusion Criteria:

• anyone who has had an active psychotic episode or been hospitalized due to suicidal ideation in the last six months

• pregnancy

• taking Chantix or Clozapine

• having a terminal illness