Intervention for Support Persons to Help Smokers Quit
Completed · Phase 1/Phase 2
Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation
In brief
This study will examine the feasibility and potential effectiveness of an intervention for adults who want to help support a smoker to quit. The support persons will receive either self-help materials only or the self-help materials plus a telephone counseling intervention. Both interventions provide information on how support persons can encourage a smoker to quit.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00379054
- Run by
- Mayo Clinic
- People needed
- 70
- Starts
- 2005-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2007-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2010-11-22
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- To be eligible, the support person must (1) be 18 years of age or older, (2) provide written informed consent, (3) be a never or former cigarette smoker (no cigarette use during the past 6 months), (4) be interested in helping someone 18 years of age who is a current smoker (average of 10 cigarettes per day in the past 7 days), (5) be able and willing to participate in all aspects of the study, (6) have current and anticipated contact (any combination of face-to-face, telephone, or electronic mail) with the smoker a total of at least 4 days of the week for the study duration, and (7), the smoker provides informed consent for the support person's involvement in the study.
You may not qualify if…
- (1) another support person from the same household has enrolled, (2) another support person has enrolled to help the same smoker, or (3) the smoker is currently (past 30 days) receiving pharmacologic or behavioral treatment for nicotine dependence.
Where it is running
- Mayo — Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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