Status:

COMPLETED

Pager-Assisted Smoking Cessation Treatment

Lead Sponsor:

University of California, San Francisco

Conditions:

Smoking Cessation

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-80 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

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...

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 we...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 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

  • 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

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 1 2003

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 1 2005

Estimated Enrollment :

224 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01207310

Start Date

May 1 2003

End Date

December 1 2005

Last Update

October 31 2017

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San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center

San Francisco, California, United States, 94121