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BREATHE Free: Character Strength and Resilience-Based Curriculum for Successful Tobacco Treatment: a Pilot Feasibility Trial
Led by Augusta University · Updated on 2025-03-06
90
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
N/A
Total Duration
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What this Trial Is About
Researchers are evaluating a faith-based program called BREATHE Free designed to help adults stop using tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigarillos, filtered cigars, and vaping devices. This pilot feasibility trial aims to see if the program is acceptable, engaging, and helpful in reducing tobacco use compared to usual care. The study focuses on character strengths and resilience as part of the intervention. Participants are randomly assigned to either attend 12 weekly in-person group meetings where they go through the BREATHE Free curriculum or receive usual care with information and referral to a tobacco quit line. The curriculum teaches practices such as love, perspective, hope, forgiveness, spirituality, and gratitude to support quitting tobacco. The control group does not attend the meetings but receives standard support. During the study, all participants will answer questions about their tobacco use, character strengths, and resilience. Expired carbon monoxide levels will be measured to assess smoking status. Engagement with the program will be tracked weekly from week 2 to week 12, and acceptability will be evaluated at the final meeting. Outcomes such as cigarette use, smoking abstinence, and resilience will be measured at baseline, week 12, and week 16. The study starts in March 2025 and will run until December 2026.
CONDITIONS
Brief Title
BREATHE Free: a Pilot Feasibility Trial
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Daily use of one or more tobacco products
- Valid home address in Augusta or the CSRA
- Functioning telephone number
- Speak, read, and write in English
You will not qualify if you...
- Current use of tobacco cessation medications
- Enrolled in tobacco treatment program
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Your Study Journey
Duration - 2 to 4 weeks
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial.
1 visit (in-person)
Duration - 12 weeks
Participants attend 12 in-person weekly meetings and go through the BREATHE Free curriculum focused on character strengths and resilience.
12 weekly visits (in-person)
Duration - 4 weeks
Participants complete program evaluations and have assessments for smoking behavior and resilience after treatment ends.
2 visits (in-person, at weeks 12 and 16)
Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Augusta University
Augusta, Georgia, United States, 30912
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
B
Ban A Majeed, PhD
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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