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Filter by:This research intends to identify common smoking triggers and barriers to quitting smoking; understand useful and effective strategies for smoking cessation; and explore the feasibility and acceptability of mobile phone-based interventions among low-income smokers.
The EMA-based intervention in this proposal is aimed to motivate the majority of smokers who do not prefer to use traditional cessation aids for quitting and help them quit smoking. The smartphone application (app) and the EMA-based phone reminders at low cost and short intervention time make this approach attractive for the majority of smokers. Identification of accurate and specific pro-smoking cues in the real-word and real-time environmental cues via the app will provide valuable information to guide new tobacco control policies.
The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy, acceptability, and feasibility of an intervention that provides a behavioral weight gain prevention intervention in advance of smoking cessation treatment in individuals with overweight or obesity who smoke cigarettes. The primary aim of this study is to determine feasibility and acceptability and initial efficacy regarding whether preceding 8 weeks of smoking cessation treatment with 8 weeks of self-regulation strategies + large changes for weight gain prevention (SR), compared to 8 weeks of healthy lifestyle education (LE), will result in greater smoking cessation and reduced weight gain. Secondary aims are to study effects on self-efficacy for managing weight and for quitting smoking, negative affect, and delayed reward discounting. Methods: Individuals with overweight or obesity who smoke cigarettes will participate in a 16-week group-based multiple health behavior change intervention. Groups will be randomly assigned to receive either 8 weeks of SR followed by 8 weeks of smoking cessation treatment or 8 weeks of LE followed by 8 weeks of smoking cessation treatment. Smoking cessation treatment in both conditions will include counseling and combination nicotine replacement therapy (patch + lozenges), with a quit day at week 9 of the 16-week intervention. Assessments will occur at baseline, on quit day and 1, 2, and 3 months later. Determining the viability of this strategy in terms of effects on both smoking and weight has high significance to public health.
This study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of QuitBet, a digital contingency management program for smoking cessation. QuitBet combines social gaming elements with participant-funded financial incentives in the form of a deposit contract. QuitBet "players" deposit (called the "bet") a specified amount of their own money into the game's "pot." All "winners" who achieve the game's goal split the pot equally, such that their bet is fully refunded plus they receive extra money from the forfeited bets of players who did not meet the goal. Participants (N = 550) will be randomly assigned to QuitBet or QuitBet-NS (deposit contract only, no social elements). All participants will be offered a second game after their first game (up to 8 weeks total game duration) and will be asked to complete a survey after each game and at 1 and 4 months after the end of the second game (3 and 6 months after the start of their first game). The study will compare QuitBet vs. QuitBet-NS on smoking behavior outcomes and examine potential mediators of outcomes such as motivation, engagement, and satisfaction.
A better understanding of how to incorporate effective smoking cessation measures into clinical practice is requested. In this is prospective, multi-center, randomized, open, blinded end-point (PROBE) trial, we assigned daily smokers hospitalized with an acute cardiac event 1:1 to an in-hospital nurse-led smoking cessation intervention with direct referral to further follow-up in the municipal healthy life-centres (intensive intervention) or to written information about smoking cessation and the municipal program (low-threshold intervention) . The primary outcome will be the smoking cessation rates between the groups at 6 months follow-up. Key secondary outcomes include a cost-effectiveness analysis of the intensive intervention and cessation rates at 3- and 12-months follow-up, the proportion who used nicotine replacement therapy and the proportion who attended the healthy-life center program between the two groups. We also assess effects of recurrent cardiovascular events and mortality after 12 months, two and five years follow-up. Exploratory analyses include new knowledge about the patient and system factors of importance for participation to healthy life-centers and for changes in smoking behaviour.
We will conduct a small-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 24 adult smokers enrolled in the TTP. Participants will receive either the Free4Good mobile app for positive psychology skills training or a breathing relaxation mobile app control (Breathe2Relax). All participants will be receiving tobacco cessation treatment in the Tobacco Treatment Program at MD Anderson as standard of care.
The prevalence of smoking in the homeless population (70%) is over 4 times that of the general population (15%). Homeless adults have not experienced similar declines in tobacco use as the general population has over the past three decades. Homeless adults are interested in smoking cessation and make quit attempts, but are less successful in quitting smoking than the general population. Trials of group behavioral counseling and pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation have not led to substantial long-term abstinence (i.e., abstinence for 6 months or more), suggesting that these interventions alone are insufficient to improve quit rates among homeless adults. Many homeless adults seek health care in safety net clinics; these clinics could bring cessation interventions to scale. Contingency management is a powerful behavior change intervention that reinforces positive health behaviors through the provision of modest incentives (e.g., cash). In this pilot randomized controlled trial, the investigator will test the feasibility and acceptability of a contingency management intervention that provides incentives for smoking cessation for people experiencing homelessness.
The proposed project aims to develop an innovative and disseminable electronic health record (iEHR)-based approach that supports optimal primary care workflows to routinely screen families for tobacco and e-cigarette use, address household smoking behavior and promote smoke-free and e-cigarette free home and car rules in a routine and effective manner in the pediatric setting. Additionally, parents enrolled in the study will be offered assistance by a community health navigator (CHN). This study aims to examine how effective the iEHR + Navigator strategy is compared to usual care control.
The modest goal of this study is to replicate the behavioral outcomes of the opt out MUSC-Tobacco Treatment Program in the following three patient groups: 1) psychiatric inpatients housed in the Institute of Psychiatry (IOP) in Charleston; 2) non-IOP patients seen in Charleston; and 3) patients seen in the other four MUSC affiliated hospitals combined (i.e., Chester, Florence, Lancaster, and Marion). The aims and the design/methods utilized for evaluation will be the same for each of the three patient groups.
Smoking causes cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancers and diabetes, and it has been a leading risk factor for death globally. Despite the availability of smoking cessation services locally, most smokers do not use such services. Workplace is one of the most convenient platforms to provide smoking cessation services and over 55% of smokers are employed according to the local population-based survey. Moreover, The COVID-19 pandemic and new normal increase in mental health burden to people in the workplace. An online survey during the pandemic found 88% of Hong Kong employees suffered from stress at work during the past 7 days. Mental health can be both precursors and consequences of smoking. However, the effectiveness of a smoking cessation programme conducted in workplace is yet to be examined in Hong Kong, and the mental health support for smoking employees in promoting smoking cessation is not clear. Thus, this study aims to test, by a 2-arm RCT, the effectiveness of an intervention of which includes mobile phone-based intervention on reducing mental health symptoms and smoking cessation in workplaces in Hong Kong; identify facilitators and barriers of successful policy implementation and quitting; examine and evaluate the company environment and their policies in promoting smoking cessation.