Enhanced Smoking Cessation Intervention for Smokers Exposed to the World Trade Center (WTC) Disaster

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cigarette Smoking, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory

In brief

The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a CBT-based smoking cessation treatment enhanced with transdiagnostic skills for the management of anxiety and fear-based avoidance behaviors (CBT-A) relative to a standard CBT-based smoking cessation treatment (CBT-S) for smokers with elevated PTSD symptoms who were exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster. The investigators hypothesized that the CBT-A treatment would yield more favorable outcomes with regard to smoking abstinence as well as improvements in PTSD and respiratory symptoms over a 6-month follow-up period.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02538601

Run by

Stony Brook University

People needed

90

Starts

2012-02-01

Expected to finish

2014-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-09-02

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• smoking at least five cigarettes per day
• reporting interest in smoking cessation treatment
• direct exposure to the WTC disaster (e.g., responding to the event or witnessing the event in person)
• scoring >30 on the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist

You may not qualify if…

• current participation in another smoking cessation treatment
• alcohol dependence within the last six months
• serious mental illness (e.g., psychosis, mania)

Where it is running

• Stony Brook University, Putnam Hall — Stony Brook, New York, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.