Positive Psychotherapy for Smoking Cessation Enhanced With Text Messaging: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Brown University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Positive Psychotherapy; Behavioral: Standard smoking cessation counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02997657

R01CA201262

Details and patient eligibility

About

Positive Psychotherapy for Smoking Cessation (PPT-S) addresses an array of risk factors for poor smoking outcomes (low positive affect, depressive symptoms, and cynical cognitions), while also providing skills that may buffer against stress and negative affect. The overall objective of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of PPT-S, enhanced with text messaging, compared to a time-matched behavioral smoking cessation treatment. Participants in both treatment conditions will receive nicotine replacement therapy and a validated text-messaging intervention for smoking cessation that monitors progress in quitting smoking and extends smoking counseling outside of the individual face-to-face context.

Enrollment: 271 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. be 18 years of age or older
2. smoke at least 5 cigarettes per day for longer than one year with no current regular use of other nicotine/tobacco products including e-cigarettes
3. have a baseline carbon monoxide level of at least 4 ppm
4. be willing to use the nicotine patch
5. report at least a 5 on a 0 to 10 scale rating the importance of quitting smoking (where 10 = extremely important);
6. have an active cell phone and be willing to send and receive text messages for the duration of the intervention.

Exclusion criteria

1. Contact study site for details

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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271 participants in 2 patient groups

Positive Psychotherapy for Smoking Cessation

Experimental group

Description:

Smoking cessation treatment that incorporates exercises and text messages derived from positive psychology interventions that are designed to boost positive moods, cognitions, and behaviors.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Positive Psychotherapy

Behavioral: Standard smoking cessation counseling

Standard smoking cessation treatment

Active Comparator group

Description:

Smoking cessation counseling that provides support and problem solving skills for avoiding smoking.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard smoking cessation counseling