Pager-Assisted Smoking Cessation Treatment - Full Text View

Purpose

The proposed study tests the efficacy of using pager-assisted messages combined with nicotine patches in facilitating smoking cessation and relapse prevention in a 2-arm randomized clinical trial. The hypothesis is that the proportion of biochemically-verified quitters at 3 and 12 months in the study arm randomized to receive therapeutic messages on alphanumeric pagers for 3 months along with individual smoking cessation counseling and nicotine patches will be greater that the proportion of biochemically-verified quitters who receive only individual smoking cessation counseling and nicotine patches.

Condition	Intervention
Smoking Cessation	Behavioral: smoking cessation counseling Drug: nicotine replacement Device: alphanumeric pager


Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title:	Pager-Assisted Smoking Cessation Treatment

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: Quitting Smoking Smoking

Drug Information available for: Nicotine tartrate Nicotine polacrilex

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by University of California, San Francisco:

Primary Outcome Measures:

biologically-validated point prevalence smoking cessation [ Time Frame: 12 months after enrollment ]
Abstinence from cigarettes "even a puff", other tobacco products and nicotine replacement for seven days at the 12 month follow-up date as validated by salivary cotinine less than 15 ng/ml

Secondary Outcome Measures:

continuous abstinence from cigarettes "even a puff", tobacco products and nicotine replacement [ Time Frame: 12 months after enrollment ]
maintained cessation from smoking, biologically-validated by repeated measures of salivary cotinine less than 15 ng/ml at 12 months


Enrollment:	224
Study Start Date:	May 2003
Study Completion Date:	December 2005
Primary Completion Date:	December 2005 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Pager Arm Participants in the Pager Arm will be provided with alphanumeric pagers and will receive therapeutic messages on these pagers for 3 months in addition to individual smoking cessation counseling and nicotine patches.	Behavioral: smoking cessation counseling two 60-minute face-to-face treatment sessions and three 20-minute follow-up contacts at weeks 2, 3, and 9 Other Name: Behavioral counseling Drug: nicotine replacement 8 weeks' worth of nicotine patches Other Name: Nicoderm Device: alphanumeric pager therapeutic messages to be delivered for three months Other Name: Pager-assisted text messaging
Active Comparator: Control Arm Participants in the Control Arm will receive individual smoking cessation counseling and nicotine patches.	Behavioral: smoking cessation counseling two 60-minute face-to-face treatment sessions and three 20-minute follow-up contacts at weeks 2, 3, and 9 Other Name: Behavioral counseling Drug: nicotine replacement 8 weeks' worth of nicotine patches Other Name: Nicoderm

Detailed Description:

A total of 224 current smokers were enrolled in a randomized controlled smoking cessation trial. Participants were community-living adult smokers of ≥10 cigarettes per day during the pre-enrollment week who were interested in quitting and recruited from the local area by means of print, media, and online advertisements. To be eligible, they needed to be smoking 10 or more cigarettes per day, aged 18 or older, motivated to quit smoking, prepared to set a quit date, willing to use nicotine patches, and able to come to therapy sessions and be followed by telephone. Participants in the pager treatment were provided with alpha-numeric pagers free of charge for three months. Using specially-designed communication software, text messages were sent to participants aimed at facilitating motivation to quit, cessation strategies, and coping skills to maintain abstinence. Participants in both treatment groups were seen for two 60-minute sessions of standard smoking cessation counseling, and received three follow-up phone calls and two months of nicotine patches.

Eligibility


Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
Sexes Eligible for Study:	All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

smoking 10 or more cigarettes per day
aged 18 or older
motivated to quit smoking and prepared to set a quit date
willing to use nicotine patches
ability to come to therapy sessions and be followed by telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

individuals who are psychotic
severely depressed
organically brain impaired
actively abusing alcohol or other substances, and/or who have been drug dependent during the past six months
terminally ill
unable to be contacted by phone,currently using nicotine replacement or smoking cessation medications
those with contraindications to nicotine patches, female smokers who are pregnant or breastfeeding

Contacts and Locations

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01207310

Locations


United States, California
San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
San Francisco, California, United States, 94121

Sponsors and Collaborators

University of California, San Francisco

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Timothy P Carmody, Ph.D	University of California, San Francisco

More Information


Responsible Party:	Timothy Carmody, Health Sciences Clinical professor, University of California, San Francisco
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT01207310 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	11RT0009
Study First Received:	September 21, 2010
Last Updated:	September 15, 2011

Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:


smoking smoking of 10 cigarettes per day

Additional relevant MeSH terms:


Nicotine Ganglionic Stimulants Autonomic Agents Peripheral Nervous System Agents Physiological Effects of Drugs	Nicotinic Agonists Cholinergic Agonists Cholinergic Agents Neurotransmitter Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action

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