Short Messaging Service Program to Help Quit Smoking During Perioperative Period. (SMS2QUIT)

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation; Perioperative/Postoperative Complications; Tobacco Smoking

Treatments: Other: SMS Program; Behavioral: Brief behavioral intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03839043

18-010950

Details and patient eligibility

About

Smoking can increase the risk of complications around the time of surgery. Researchers are trying to see if a text messaging program can help smokers stay off cigarettes around the time of surgery.

Full description

The long-term goal of the project is to increase the reach and effectiveness of tobacco use interventions in healthcare settings. The main objective of this project is to determine whether an innovative tobacco use intervention targeting abstinence from the morning of surgery until one week after surgery ("quit for a bit") can increase sustained engagement of surgical patients in treatment compared with a standard tobacco use intervention that specifically targets long-term abstinence ("quit for good").

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 years or older
• Greater than 100 cigarettes lifetime consumption and history of smoking cigarettes every day or most days within the week prior to enrollment
• Willingness to either "quit for a bit" or "quit for good" in the perioperative period, and;
• Owning a device with access to SMS with an unlimited text plan

Exclusion criteria

• Surgery on the day of POE evaluation
• Any active psychiatric condition

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

"Quit for a bit"

Experimental group

Description:

Brief behavioral intervention (\~5 min) that focus on quitting smoking from the morning of surgery until one week after surgery + "Quit for a bit" SMS program.

Treatment:

Other: SMS Program

Behavioral: Brief behavioral intervention

"Quit for good"

Active Comparator group

Description:

Brief behavioral intervention (\~5 min) that focus on quitting smoking permanently for as long as possible +" Quit for good" SMS program.

Treatment:

Other: SMS Program

Behavioral: Brief behavioral intervention