Smoking Cessation for Low-Income Pregnant Women

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Conditions studied: Pregnancy, Smoking

In brief

To meet the Healthy People 2010 objective of increasing tobacco abstinence among pregnant women to 90%, new methods for treating nicotine addiction among pregnant women are needed. To this end, we propose to evaluate an innovative cognitive-behavioral smoking cessation intervention for low-income, minority women conducted in the prenatal and postpartum phases. Considering the strong link between tobacco use and cancer risk, the development of effective smoking cessation treatments has important health implications for cancer prevention and control initiatives. The aims to be addressed are: Aim 1: To compare an enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling (CBC) smoking cessation intervention with a Best Practice control condition (BP) for reducing smoking rates (i.e., continued abstinence, 7-day point prevalence, and number of cigarettes smoked) in the short- and long-term among pregnant women. It is hypothesized that smokers receiving CBC will show reduced rates of tobacco use, versus those in the BP, over time. Aim 2: To evaluate the impact of the CBC intervention on the hypothesized mediators of behavior change (i.e., heightened risk perceptions; enhanced self-efficacy and reduced fatalistic beliefs; high pros and low cons of quitting; reduced emotional distress). It is hypothesized that the psychosocial factors will mediate the effect of the CBC intervention on change of smoking behaviors.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02211430

Run by

Fox Chase Cancer Center

People needed

277

Starts

2002-10-01

Expected to finish

2007-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-08-07

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Being pregnant
• Having smoked one puff of a cigarette in the 30 days prior to recruitment (1- 25 weeks post-gestation)
• Being 18 years or older
• Being reachable by a telephone.

You may not qualify if…

• An inability to communicate readily in English
• Receiving substance abuse treatment and/or evidence of drug and alcohol abuse

Where it is running

• Fox Chase Cancer Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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