Testing Counseling Styles to Motivate Smokers to Quit

University of Missouri, Kansas City

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Nicotine Dependence; Smoking; Tobacco Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Brief Advice (BA); Behavioral: Health Education (HE); Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing (MI)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01188018

1R01CA133068-01A2 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

00023726

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine, among a sample of general adult smokers, the effectiveness of three different counseling interventions for motivating quit attempts among smokers not yet ready to quit.

Enrollment: 255 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 years and older
• Smoke at least once a day for the past 30 days
• Are willing to participate in all study components
• Sufficient language skills in English for counseling and assessments
• Has a home address
• Has a working phone number

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months
• Currently using a smoking cessation medication
• Currently participating in smoking cessation program
• Motivated to quit smoking
• Planning to quit smoking in the next 2 weeks
• Lives in a home with someone currently enrolled in the study
• Minor

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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255 participants in 3 patient groups

Brief Advice

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief Advice (BA)

Motivational Interviewing

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing (MI)

Health Education

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health Education (HE)