Determinants of Smoking Cessation Among Latinos

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Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation

In brief

The goal of this study is to learn how neighborhood and individual factors affect the ability to stop smoking among Spanish-speaking Mexican American (MA) smokers who want to quit smoking.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01008748

Run by

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

People needed

200

Starts

2009-09-01

Expected to finish

2016-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Current daily smoker who average >/= 5 cigarettes/day for the last year
• Mexican-American (MA) Adults from the Houston-based MA Cohort Study and/or from the community
• Age 18 to 65 years
• Motivated to quit smoking in the next 30 days
• Viable (working) telephone number and home address
• Prefers to speak in Spanish
• Register "8" or more on a carbon monoxide breath test

You may not qualify if…

• Contraindication for nicotine patch use
• Regular use of tobacco products other than cigarettes (cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco)
• Use of nicotine replacement therapy products or other smoking cessation medications, other than the nicotine patches supplied during the study
• Pregnancy or lactation
• Currently enrolled in a smoking cessation program
• Participation in a smoking cessation program or study during the past 90 days
• Another household member is enrolled in this protocol
• Active substance abuse problem

Where it is running

• University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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