Vascular Physician Offer and Report (VAPOR) Trial

Dartmouth Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)

Treatments: Behavioral: Offer and Report Protocol

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02220686

D14197

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to see if vascular physicians (your provider) using a combination of proven smoking cessation tools in an organized way can help vascular patients quit smoking better than usual.

The doctors where you are being treated have been chosen to either provide:

the combination therapy of giving you advice, considering prescribing medications to help you quit smoking, and referring you to a phone quitline, or to continue their usual smoking cessation practices (which may include all, some, or none of the treatments above).

Enrollment: 156 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age >18
• Current smoker
• Plan to have a Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) procedure in > 7 days

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant Women, Fetuses and Neonates
• Children
• People with impaired decision-making capacity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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156 participants in 2 patient groups

Offer and Report Protocol

Experimental group

Description:

Physician advice to stop smoking, referral to state Quitline, and physician considers prescribing nicotine replacement therapy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Offer and Report Protocol

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Physician will follow their institution's standard of care for smoking cessation.