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Filter by: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.
To pilot test the appeal of non-tobacco oral nicotine products in cigarette smokers, smokeless tobacco users, and oral nicotine users.
Participants will be randomly assigned (like the flip of a coin) to one of the two groups after completing the baseline survey. Participants have a 50% of being in either the Scheduled Gradual Reduction (SGR) group or the control group. Participants will then be given a baseline survey and the intervention will be explained to them.
Oral cancer is a serious and growing problem in many parts of the globe. Oral cancer is the eighth most common cancer worldwide.The annual estimated incidence is around 275,000 for oral and 130,300 for pharyngeal cancers excluding nasopharynx, two-thirds of these cases occurring in developing countries. In Pakistan, it is the second most common cancer in women and third most common cancer in men. The Age Standardized Rates (ASR) for oral cancers are 13.8 and 14.1 in males and females respectively.To the best of investigators knowledge, no intervention study has been done to improve knowledge and awareness of adults regarding association of areca nut/betel quid with oral cancer. Therefore, the study aims to implement a cluster randomized intervention trial in secondary schools to improve the knowledge and awareness regarding this association among children 11-16 years. For resource poor countries such as Pakistan, it is imperative to prevent oral cancer by improving knowledge about its important risk factor such as betel quid, areca nut and chew tobacco. A school-based intervention study will be carried out in secondary schools in Karachi. The target population will be male and female school students in school grades 6 to 10 with intervention group and control group at each site. School-based educational intervention will be given to the intervention group while no specific education will be given to the control group. Differences in attitudes, knowledge and behaviors between the intervention and control groups will be compared each site separately before and after the intervention. The minimum sample size required was 22 schools (clusters). The number of subjects in each arm will be 529 with average cluster size of 50. The selected schools will be randomly assigned to a control group or Interventions group. Randomization will be done at the school level to avoid contamination between groups.The health education programme will be conducted for 3 consecutive weeks in one academic year for all the selected schools.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a Scheduled Gradual Reduction (SGR) intervention via Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging plus SMS Support Messages in decreasing smokeless tobacco use in a rural population.
This research study will determine if using a combination of 4-mg nicotine lozenges, self-help materials, and/or telephone tobacco cessation counseling will help smokeless tobacco users stop using tobacco. The study will consist of three interventions: 1. The Lozenge Assisted Self-help intervention - lozenge nicotine replacement therapy, phone counseling, and self help materials 2. Assisted Self-Help intervention - self-help materials and phone counseling without lozenges 3. Lozenge Self Help intervention - self help materials and lozenge nicotine replacement therapy. Hypothesis: The Lozenge Assisted Self-help intervention will significantly increase both the prolonged and point prevalence for all tobacco and smokeless tobacco (ST) abstinence rates at 6 months among ST users who are interested in achieving tobacco abstinence, compared to those in the Assisted Self-Help intervention and the Lozenge Self Help intervention.