Chiropractic Treatment With Counseling Versus Counseling Alone for Promoting Smoking Cessation

Southern California University of Health Sciences

Status and phase: Terminated; Phase 1

Conditions: Smoking

Treatments: Procedure: Chiropractic adjustment; Behavioral: Counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01689168

ROSE004

Details and patient eligibility

About

Tobacco use is the number one killer of Americans today. Most current smokers have tried and failed to quit at least once. Smokers are addicted to the nicotine in tobacco products, and withdrawal from smoking can lead to physical symptoms such as irritability, anxiety, nervousness, depression and insomnia.

This study will examine the effects of tobacco cessation counseling and chiropractic treatments on smokers who desire to quit.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults 18 yrs and above
• Smokers with desire to quit smoking

Exclusion criteria

• Received chiropractic treatment or other manipulative therapies within the last month
• Have received any therapy for smoking cessation during the last month
• Visceral, systemic or joint inflammatory disease
• A history of low back surgery
• Osteoporosis
• Prolonged systemic corticosteroid medication
• Pregnancy
• Recent spinal fracture

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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19 participants in 2 patient groups

Counseling plus chiropractic adjustments

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Chiropractic adjustment

Behavioral: Counseling

Counseling alone

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Counseling