A Future Thinking Intervention for Comorbid Tobacco Use Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

Running, not enrolling · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Bipolar Disorder, Tobacco Use Disorder

In brief

Future Self-BD is a 6-session virtual intervention that encourages participants to vividly generate personal and positive future events that they anticipate may be benefited by smoking cessation. Each session will be conducted on HIPAA-compliant Zoom and led by the PI (Dr. Gold).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06609902

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

70

Starts

2024-12-06

Expected to finish

2028-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-17

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Adults aged 18 or older
• Have a diagnosis of BD I or II
• Have a diagnosis of tobacco use disorder
• Be engaged in outpatient treatment with a medical provider
• Be on a stable dose of a mood-stabilizing medication
• Smoke an average of at least 5 cigarettes per day for the past 30 days at baseline (based on the Heaviness of Smoking Index(Heatherton et al., 1989))
• Be interested in quitting smoking
• Not currently or in the past 3 months be receiving smoking cessation treatment.

You may not qualify if…

• Current psychosis
• Intent to harm oneself with an associated plan and intent to act on suicidal thoughts
• Experiencing severe symptoms of depression and/or hypomania that may warrant a higher level of care (a Patient Health Questionnaire-9 total score ≥ 20(Kroenke et al., 2001) and/or an Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale total score ≥ 6(Altman et al., 1997) will trigger further clinician evaluation)

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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