Effectiveness of an Integrated Treatment to Address Smoking Cessation and Anxiety/ Depression in...
Human Immunodeficiency VirusSmoking Cessation6 moreSmokers living with HIV represent a major health disparity population in the United States and the world more generally. Major contributing factors to the maintenance and relapse of smoking among smokers living with HIV include increased exposure to multiple stressors associated with HIV, which often exacerbates anxiety/depression. In a previous project, the feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of a 9-session, cognitive-behavioral-based intervention to address smoking cessation by reducing anxiety and depression via specific emotional vulnerabilities (anxiety sensitivity, distress tolerance, and anhedonia) was tested against an enhanced standard of care in a pilot randomized controlled trial (NCT01393301). It was found that when compared to a brief enhanced treatment as usual control, patients in the intervention achieved higher short-term and long-term smoking abstinence rates. In this project, the investigators seek to test this same intervention in a fully powered, 3-arm efficacy/effectiveness trial. The goal of this study is to randomize 180 smokers across three sites to test the efficacy/effectiveness of the intervention at increasing point prevalence abstinence by reducing anxiety and depression at a 1-month follow-up (the end of treatment timepoint/ approximately 1-month post quit day) and a 6-month follow-up (approximately 6-months post quit day).
Mobile Health for Problematic Behaviors and Substance Use
AddictionBehavioral Addiction3 moreThe aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of long-term and short-term app-based self-guided psychological interventions to reduce craving and lapse risk in problematic behaviors (compulsive sex, pornography, overeating, gaming, gambling) and substance use (cannabis, nicotine). Participants are randomly assigned to either the intervention group or the control. Participants in the intervention group have access to short-term and long-term interventions, whereas those in the control group only have access to the weekly ecological momentary assessment reports. Participants in the intervention group are able to access the intervention materials 5 days after enrollment and receive weekly ecological momentary assessment reports. Those in the control group will be granted access to all intervention materials after five weeks following study enrollment. A questionnaire battery assessments is administered (1) at baseline in the first week following onboarding in; (2) after 5 weeks; (3) after six months. In addition, longitudinal data on several variables related to craving and lapse risk are collected daily using ecological momentary assessment
Smoking Cessation and Menstrual Cycle Phase
Nicotine DependenceTobacco Smoking3 moreTobacco use is a risk factor for at least 20 types of cancer and remains the leading preventable cause of cancer in Canada. Smoking cessation is an important cancer prevention strategy for the close to 2 million Canadian women who currently smoke. However, findings from controlled trials and real-world clinical settings indicate that women have greater difficulty achieving abstinence following a quit attempt than men. There is some evidence that hormonal levels and fluctuations throughout the menstrual cycle (MC) may contribute to the greater difficulty women experience when trying to quit smoking. In this study, the start of a quit attempt using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) will be targeted to specific phases of MC. It was hypothesized that starting a quit attempt during the first half of MC (follicular phase) will result in increased quit success compared to starting during the second half of MC (luteal phase) or the usual practice of not targeting quit start date to MC phase.
Adapting and Evaluating a Tobacco Use Cessation Program for People Living With HIV in Uganda and...
Nicotine DependenceTobacco DependenceThis proposal tests the efficacy of a phone-based tobacco cessation intervention for people living with HIV (PLWH) in comparison to the standard of care (brief advice to quit) and nicotine replacement therapy (nicotine patches) in Uganda and Zambia. This study will provide insight into the efficacy, feasibility, applicability, and affordability of delivering tobacco cessation interventions through health care professionals at HIV treatment centers in two countries with different tobacco use patterns, policy environments, and health care resources. The previously tested SMS-platform to be used in this study is uniquely positioned to be scaled in low- and middle-income countries worldwide, in which case rigorous research showing even modest success in reducing the prevalence of tobacco consumption among PLWH could confer substantial health and economic benefits.
A Smart Approach to Treating Tobacco Use Disorder in Persons Living With HIV
Tobacco Use CessationMany people living with HIV (PLWH) smoke. Smoking in these individuals is often undertreated. This study plans to assess the ability of various clinical pathways involving tobacco treatment medications and contingency management (paying smokers for not smoking) to improve smoking cessation in a group of PLWH.
Comparing Two Behavioral Approaches to Quitting Smoking in Mental Health Settings
Tobacco Use DisorderMental Illness5 moreThe study team will conduct a Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of two approaches for quitting smoking among people with serious mental illness (SMI). The study will compare a novel app tailored to people with SMI, Quit on the Go, to a standard of care smoking cessation intervention. We will test the effectiveness of the Quit on the Go app, an intervention that has demonstrated feasibility and acceptability in the target population, as a tool for smoking cessation in people with SMI. Participants with SMI will be recruited across 2 sites (Duke University and Univ. at Buffalo).
Study Assessing Efficacy and Safety of NFL-101 as a Tobacco Cessation Therapy
Smoking CessationNicotine DependenceCESTO 2 is a 318 participants, 3-arm, multicentric, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II clinical trial. The main objectives are to select the most efficient dose and to assess long-term efficacy of NFL-101 compared to placebo, for abrupt cessation and for reduction before cessation.
Identifying Effective Treatment for Veterans Unwilling to Quit Smoking
Tobacco DependenceVeteransThis project will generate knowledge about the effectiveness of Enhanced Chronic Care, an intervention designed to enhance treatment use and smoking abstinence in Veterans who are initially unwilling to quit. Enhanced Chronic Care provides ongoing motivational interventions and interpersonal support designed to promote readiness to quit smoking. Enhanced Chronic Care will be compared with Standard Care (brief advice to quit once per year) on criteria that are of great clinical and public health importance: use of cessation treatment and smoking abstinence. It is expected that Enhanced Chronic Care will increase treatment use and smoking abstinence relative to Standard Care.
Smoking Reduction In Gravid Substance Use Disorders
Tobacco Smoking in Mother Complicating PregnancyTobacco Use Disorder1 moreThe aim of this study is to encourage smoking cessation in women with substance use disorders by providing knowledge of expired carbon monoxide. We hypothesize that women who are provided knowledge of their expired carbon monoxide and the associated percent fetal carboxyhemoglobin will have a greater success at quitting smoking during pregnancy than women who are not provided this information. A secondary aim of the study is to correlate expired carbon monoxide throughout pregnancy with infant birth weight.
Comparative Effectiveness of Cystine Versus Nicotine Replacement Therapy
Nicotine AddictionA pragmatic, single blinded, randomized, controlled non-inferiority trial of Cytisine versus Nicotine Replacement Therapy for continuous abstinence is conducted in the government run primary health hospitals in Mongolia.