Status:

COMPLETED

Approach Bias Retraining to Augment Smoking Cessation

Lead Sponsor:

University of Texas at Austin

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Conditions:

Nicotine Dependence

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-65 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Standard smoking cessation care (cognitive behavioral therapy and nicotine replacement therapy), is ef...

Detailed Description

The integrated intervention involves seven weekly 60-minute therapy sessions. The each therapy session involves 15 minutes of computerized approach bias retraining and 45 minutes of individual cogniti...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Male and female patients ages 18-65 capable of providing informed consent
  • Willing and able to provide informed consent, attend all study visits, and comply with the protocol
  • Daily smoker for at least 1 year
  • Currently smoke an average of at least 5 cigarettes per day
  • Report a motivation to quit smoking of at least 5 on a 10-point scale

Exclusion

  • A lifetime history of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, or delusional disorders; an eating disorder in the past 6 months; organic brain syndrome, mental retardation or other cognitive dysfunction that could interfere with capacity to engage in therapy; a history of substance or alcohol abuse or dependence (other than nicotine) in the last 6 months or otherwise unable to commit to refraining from alcohol use during the acute period of study participation.
  • Visual or hand-motoric impairments
  • Current use of nicotine replacement therapy
  • Current use of any other pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy for smoking cessation not provided by the researchers during the quit attempt
  • Current use of tobacco products other than cigarettes
  • Insufficient command of the English language as the treatment manual is written only in English and study staff are not fluent in other languages

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 29 2017

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

October 8 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

96 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03325777

Start Date

November 29 2017

End Date

October 8 2021

Last Update

June 9 2023

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University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas, United States, 78712