Treatment of Smoking Lapses and Relapses

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation

In brief

Many smokers who try to stop smoking with nicotine medications (NM) such as gum, lozenge and patch, go back to smoking (i.e., a slip or lapse). Currently, labeling on many NM products tells smokers who lapse while using NM to stop NM. However, some studies suggest it is safe to continue NM upon a lapse and that doing so dramatically increases success at quitting. The investigators will test this by doing a randomized trial in which all treatment and measures are done from home with paper, phone or computer surveys. The investigators will recruit smokers who want to quit, provide them with 10 weeks of nicotine patch treatment and 5 weeks of counseling. One group will be asked to stop use of the patch if they lapse and the other group will be asked to continue use of the patch if they lapse. The investigators will compare the groups on their success at quitting and side-effects.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01807871

Run by

University of Vermont

People needed

701

Starts

2013-03-01

Expected to finish

2016-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-10-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• at least 18 years old
• daily smoker of 10 or more cigarettes per day for at least 1 year
• state they plan to probably or definitely quit smoking in the next month
• have a home or cell phone
• willing to use nicotine patch
• good command of written and spoken English
• weigh at least 100 pounds
• US citizen or permanent resident alien

You may not qualify if…

• use of non-cigarette tobacco in the last month
• use of a smoking cessation medication or smoking cessation counseling in the last month
• medical contraindication to use of patch
• other person in household already in our study
• previously a participant in the study
• currently pregnant or breast feeding
• plan to become pregnant in the next 6 months
• regularly works the overnight shift
• use of electronic cigarettes in the last month

Where it is running

• University of Vermont — Burlington, Vermont, United States

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