Smoking
Conditions
Keywords
smoking, tobacco, behavior therapy
Brief summary
The goal of this study is to understand how information about smokers' health risks affects their attitudes, mood, and behavior.
Detailed description
The current study will test a community-based, tobacco intervention. The project will compare the effects of a proactive, personally-tailored, biologically-based motivational intervention to those of a proactive, generic motivational intervention for smoking cessation. The biologically-based motivational treatment will include feedback on participants' carbon monoxide (CO) exposure (expired CO and estimated carboxyhemoglobin levels), pulmonary functioning assessed via spirometry, and self-reported smoking-related symptoms. All participants will be given equal access to action-oriented treatment.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALmotivational counseling
behavioral motivational counselling
BEHAVIORALplacebo
Sponsors
Kaiser Permanente
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 18 years old, * smoke greater than or equal to 15 cigarettes a day, * have an expired CO level greater than or equal to 10 ppm, * are not currently being treated for smoking cessation, * can read and write in English, * provide contact information, * agree to the study requirements, * have no medical contraindications for spirometry assessment, * and no an obvious cognitive or physical impairment that would preclude their ability to comprehend or fully participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
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Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Motivation to quit smoking, utilization of available resources, smoking cessation rate | 1 year |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Measurement of emotional distress, and mediators/moderators of primary outcomes | 1 year |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed