Pager-Assisted Smoking Cessation Treatment
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation
In brief
The proposed study tests the efficacy of using pager-assisted messages combined with nicotine patches in facilitating smoking cessation and relapse prevention in a 2-arm randomized clinical trial. The hypothesis is that the proportion of biochemically-verified quitters at 3 and 12 months in the study arm randomized to receive therapeutic messages on alphanumeric pagers for 3 months along with individual smoking cessation counseling and nicotine patches will be greater that the proportion of biochemically-verified quitters who receive only individual smoking cessation counseling and nicotine patches.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01207310
- Run by
- University of California, San Francisco
- People needed
- 224
- Starts
- 2003-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2005-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-10-31
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- smoking 10 or more cigarettes per day
- aged 18 or older
- motivated to quit smoking and prepared to set a quit date
- willing to use nicotine patches
- ability to come to therapy sessions and be followed by telephone
You may not qualify if…
- individuals who are psychotic
- severely depressed
- organically brain impaired
- actively abusing alcohol or other substances, and/or who have been drug dependent during the past six months
- terminally ill
- unable to be contacted by phone,currently using nicotine replacement or smoking cessation medications
- those with contraindications to nicotine patches, female smokers who are pregnant or breastfeeding
Where it is running
- San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center — San Francisco, California, United States
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