Chinese Community Smoking Cessation Project

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2007-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The study has two objectives/aims:

Aim 1: To test the efficacy of the intervention among adult smokers with cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease and diabetes mellitus related illnesses (later modified to Chinese adults with and without diseases); and

Aim 2: To examine a set of measures (background, general health, psychosocial, and smoking process) that are associated with smoking cessation at 6 and 12 months

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Collaborator: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• having smoked a cigarette, cigar, or tobacco pipe during the 3 months preceding the baseline interview

• reside in the San Francisco Bay Area at baseline

• must be fluent in either English or Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)

• be 18 and over in age and

• not currently engaging in assisted smoking cessation efforts

Exclusion criteria

• unable to speak English or Chinese

• too ill to participate, or not willing to participate in smoking cessation effort

• pregnancy

• major psychiatric illness not under control/treatment