Prepare to Quit - A Clinical Trial to Help People Quit Smoking in a Community Dental Clinic Setting

University of Manitoba

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Smoking; Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Tooth Whitening; Behavioral: Motivational Counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01846910

H2013:118

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objectives of this study are:

1. To determine the effect that an intensive, community dental clinic centered, stop-smoking program using a motivational interviewing approach has upon cessation rates for interested, smoking inner-city dental patients.
2. To determine the effect that providing a tooth whitening incentive, in a community dental clinic stop-smoking program, has upon cessation rates for interested, smoking inner-city dental patients.

Full description

See above

Enrollment: 156 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• current smoker
• dental clinic patient
• interested in quitting smoking

Exclusion criteria

• minors
• those unable to provide own consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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156 participants in 2 patient groups

Motivational Counseling

Active Comparator group

Description:

The extended counseling group will receive one to three, 45-minute individual motivational counseling sessions using a motivational interviewing approach to Express empathy, Develop discrepancy, Roll with resistance, and Support self-efficacy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Counseling

Tooth Whitening Incentive

Experimental group

Description:

The tooth whitening group will receive all of the interventions previously described for the Motivational Counseling Group, and as an extra incentive against relapse, will also be offered complimentary tooth whitening procedures if biochemically verified as tobacco-free by Carbon Monoxide monitor (bleaching at 3-weeks, whitening strips at 3-months, and whitening touch-up at 1 year).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Counseling

Behavioral: Tooth Whitening