Smoking Cessation in Substance Abuse Treatment Patients: A Feasibility Study

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Nicotine Dependence

In brief

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects of self-help materials for smoking cessation and self-help materials for smoking cessation plus prize-based contingency management (CM), in which prize incentives are available for breath and saliva samples that indicate smoking abstinence, in substance abuse treatment patients who want to quit smoking.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00408265

Run by

UConn Health

People needed

80

Starts

2004-01-01

Expected to finish

2007-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-11-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol, cocaine or heroin abuse or dependence
• self-report daily smoking for at least the past year
• CO > 8ppm
• interested in quitting smoking while in treatment,
• minimum age 18 years old
• willing to provide names, addresses and phone numbers of individuals to assist in locating the patient for follow-up evaluations
• English speaking

You may not qualify if…

• current use of NRT
• current use of bupropion
• serious, uncontrolled psychiatric illness (e.g., acute schizophrenia, suicide risk)
• dementia (Mini-mental status score of <23)
• currently participating in another CM study at the clinic
• in recovery for pathological gambling

Where it is running

• University of Connecticut Health Center — Farmington, Connecticut, United States

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