Identifying Optimal Smoking Cessation Intervention Components (Cessation)

Study Summary

The goal of this research is to identify the best smoking cessation intervention components to be combined into a state-on-the-art, comprehensive smoking cessation intervention. This research examines the ability of different interventions, provided both prior to and after the quit attempt, to maximize the ability to initially quit and then stay quit. The investigators will be examining six different treatment interventions: pre-quit nicotine patch, pre-quit nicotine gum, pre-quit counseling, post-quit in-person counseling, post-quit phone counseling and duration of post-quit nicotine replacement therapy.

Primary Outcome

Self-Reported 7-Day Point-Prevalence Abstinence is a dichotomous outcome with values of 0 and 1 where 0=smoking on one or more of the past 7 days at the assessment endpoint (16 weeks post-quit) and 1=no smoking on any of the past 7 days at the assessment endpoint (i.e., abstinent for the past 7 days); this outcome will be analyzed in a logistic regression analysis model. Note: This abstinence primary outcome replaces latency to relapse (now designated as a secondary outcome) because reviewers o

Interventions

• BEHAVIORAL Counseling before quit attempt
• BEHAVIORAL Minimal In-person counseling during quit attempt
• BEHAVIORAL Intensive in-person counseling during the quit attempt
• BEHAVIORAL Minimal phone counseling during the quit attempt
• BEHAVIORAL Intensive phone counseling during the quit attempt