Strategies to Avoid Returning to Smoking

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Smoking

In brief

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relative efficacy of a postpartum smoking relapse prevention program, Strategies to Avoid Returning to Smoking (STARTS), and a supportive, nondirective comparison condition (SUPPORT) to increase the proportion of women who remain abstinent through 12 months postpartum. We hypothesize that women randomized to STARTS will maintain higher rates of smoking abstinence at 6 and 12 months postpartum, and expect STARTS to increase the length of time abstinence is sustained relative to SUPPORT.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00757068

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

300

Starts

2007-09-01

Expected to finish

2014-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-05-27

Who can join

Age: 14 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Women will be eligible to participate if they:
• report having smoked daily for at least one month during the 3 months prior to becoming pregnant;
• smoked at least 10 cigarettes per day before quitting;
• report no smoking in the four weeks prior to enrollment;
• are not currently smoking as verified by a CO less than 8ppm;
• are at least 'somewhat' motivated to remain abstinent postpartum and
• are at least 14 years of age.

You may not qualify if…

• Women with current, acute psychiatric disorders, including other substance use problems and symptoms that warrant immediate treatment will be referred for care and excluded from this trial.
• Women with psychiatric disorders (e.g., depressive or anxiety disorders), who are not acutely suicidal and in whom the symptoms are not severe enough to preclude participation in a randomized trial, will be eligible to participate. However, women taking psychiatric medications that may affect the mediators of treatment, such as antidepressant, anxiolytic or weight control medications, will be excluded from participation.
• Women who endorse current suicidality will be discussed immediately with the consulting physician and referred to the psychiatric emergency room for further evaluation as indicated.

Where it is running

• UPMC — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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