Motivational Program for Smokers Enrolled in a Methadone Maintenance Program

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)