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Recycling of Chronic Smokers to Sustained Abstinence
This study has been completed.
First Received: May 25, 2000   Last Updated: June 23, 2005   History of Changes
Sponsored by: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Information provided by: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00005710
  Purpose

To develop and to test a brief telephone intervention following clinic treatment for smoking cessation.


Condition
Cardiovascular Diseases
Heart Diseases
Lung Diseases

Study Type: Observational
Study Design: Natural History

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Further study details as provided by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI):

Study Start Date: July 1990
Estimated Study Completion Date: June 1995
Detailed Description:

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

A total of 1,083 chronic smokers were randomly assigned either to a traditional state-of-the-art smoking cessation clinic or to the clinic supplemented by telephone support for recycling. Telephone outreach consisted of three separate rounds of intervention three months, nine months, and 21 months after the targeted date for quitting in the smoking cessation clinics.

Telephone calls to abstinent subjects reinforced success and offered advice and support in coping with difficult situations. Calls to relapsers and nonabstainers debriefed concerning the relapse episode (as appropriate) and encouraged subjects to initiate concrete action toward quitting including setting a quit date. Subjects were offered self-help materials as well as referrals to more intensive programs.

Follow-up data collection was separate from recycling contacts and occured six, 12, 24, and 34 months after the initial smoking cessation clinics.

Projected longterm sustained abstinence rates were 35 percent for recycling and 25 percent for the clinic only comparison. If results were as predicted, an effective low-cost telephone outreach protocol was made available that could dramatically assist in smoking cessation and thereby substantially reduce cardiovascular disease.

  Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:   Male
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

No eligibility criteria

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  More Information

Publications:
Study ID Numbers: 4919
Study First Received: May 25, 2000
Last Updated: June 23, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00005710     History of Changes
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Heart Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Lung Diseases

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Lung Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases

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