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
Active Locations (1)
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San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
San Francisco, California, United States, 94121