Smokeless Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Firefighters

Duke University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smokeless Tobacco Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: #EnufSnuff.TXT- First Responder; Behavioral: Enough Snuff Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05111041

Pro00109404

5R01CA242593-03 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators are asking professional firefighters across North Carolina to take part in focus groups to discuss the specific needs of firefighters in smokeless tobacco cessation. About 40 firefighters will take part in the focus groups.

The purpose of the focus groups is to learn how firefighting and shift work impact smokeless tobacco use and risk perceptions related to chew or dip. Using their feedback, the study team will then develop a cessation program specifically geared towards firefighters and first responders.

The cessation program will be a mobile text / chat intervention specifically tailored to needs of firefighters and first responders who wish to stop using smokeless tobacco. About 50 firefighters and first responders will take part in this program, while being randomized into either the intervention group or the control group.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Professional firefighters or first responders
• 18 years or older
• Have used smokeless tobacco for the past year and current (past 30 days) smokeless tobacco daily use
• Access to a smartphone

Exclusion criteria

• Not a professional firefighter or first responder
• Under 18 years of age
• Have not used smokeless tobacco for the past year and are not current (past 30 days) smokeless tobacco daily use
• No access to a smartphone

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

#EnufSnuff.TXT- First Responder

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive a mobile gradual smokeless tobacco reduction intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: #EnufSnuff.TXT- First Responder

Enough Snuff Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive tobacco cessation materials

Treatment:

Behavioral: Enough Snuff Intervention