Short Messaging Service Program to Help Quit Smoking During Perioperative Period.

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Conditions studied: Tobacco Use Cessation, Perioperative/Postoperative Complications, Tobacco Smoking

In brief

Smoking can increase the risk of complications around the time of surgery. Researchers are trying to see if a text messaging program can help smokers stay off cigarettes around the time of surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03839043

Run by

Mayo Clinic

People needed

100

Starts

2019-03-18

Expected to finish

2021-06-11

Last updated by the study team

2021-07-09

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 years or older
• Greater than 100 cigarettes lifetime consumption and history of smoking cigarettes every day or most days within the week prior to enrollment
• Willingness to either "quit for a bit" or "quit for good" in the perioperative period, and;
• Owning a device with access to SMS with an unlimited text plan

You may not qualify if…

• Surgery on the day of POE evaluation
• Any active psychiatric condition

Where it is running

• Mayo — Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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