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Motivational Program for Smokers Enrolled in a Methadone Maintenance Program

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Butler Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Treatments

Other: educational intervention
Behavioral: smoking cessation intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other
NIH

Identifiers

NCT00278226
CDR0000452798
RIH-0076-98
R01CA084392 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Stop-smoking programs may help patients stop smoking and prevent cancer from forming.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well a motivational program works in helping smokers enrolled in a methadone maintenance program quit smoking.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the efficacy of a brief motivational intervention on smoking cessation in smokers enrolled in a methadone maintenance program.

OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 groups.

  • Group 1: Patients undergo assessment at baseline and at 1, 3, and 6 months.
  • Group 2: Patients receive a brief motivational intervention at the time of their baseline assessment and undergo assessment as in group 1.

All patients will be offered a 2- to 3-month supply of nicotine patches.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 400 patients will be accrued for this study.

Enrollment

398 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Must be currently enrolled in a methadone maintenance program
  • Smokes at least 10 cigarettes a day

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Not pregnant
  • No concurrent medical condition that precludes the use of nicotine patches

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

  • No concurrent use of other nicotine replacement therapy

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

Trial contacts and locations

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