Status:

COMPLETED

Smartphone-Delivered Attentional Bias Modification Training in Helping Patients Quit Smoking

Lead Sponsor:

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Current Every Day Smoker

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-65 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This randomized clinical trial studies how well a smartphone-delivered attentional bias modification training works in helping patients quit smoking. Smartphone-delivered attentional bias modification...

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the feasibility of smartphone-delivered, in-home attentional bias modification (ABM) to reduce attentional bias (AB) to smoking cues and to reduce smoking behavior...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Smoke an average of 5 or more cigarettes or little cigars per day (CPD) prior to telephone screen
  • Produce an expired carbon monoxide (CO) level greater than or equal to 6 parts per million (ppm) or a NicAlert reading of \> 2
  • Have a working telephone
  • Interested in quitting smoking in the next 30 days
  • Fluency in spoken and written English
  • Must sign the picture consent form

Exclusion

  • Taking psychotropic, anticonvulsive, or narcotic medication
  • Meet criteria for a current major depressive episode or suicidality
  • Have a history of neurological illness or closed head injury
  • Report uncorrected vision problems
  • Involved in current smoking cessation activity
  • Testing positive on a urine drug screen for drugs of abuse/potential abuse
  • Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Considered by the investigator to be an unsuitable or unstable candidate (e.g., due to cognitive impairment)
  • Shares the same address as a currently enrolled participant
  • Unwilling to alter or remove hairstyle, hair extensions, or wig during the clinic visits to allow for correct electroencephalography (EEG) sensor placement
  • Reports diagnosis of seizure disorder
  • Unwilling to use nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) patches

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 20 2016

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 15 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

311 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02224391

Start Date

January 20 2016

End Date

March 15 2021

Last Update

March 7 2023

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M D Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

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