Free Samples for Health

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-07-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The Free Samples for Health (FreSH) study tests whether providing free samples of stop smoking medicine called nicotine replacement therapy at dental visits results in a greater number of people quitting smoking than providing a gift of equal value (an electric toothbrush).

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute
• Collaborators: HealthPartners Institute; Kaiser Permanente; Massachusetts General Hospital; Medical University of South Carolina; Northwestern University; University of Alabama at Birmingham; University of Rochester
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ≥ 18 years old

• smokes at least 1 combustible cigarette per day on at least 25 days of the month

Exclusion Criteria:

• does not own a smartphone with internet access

• myocardial infarction or stroke in the past 3 months

• pregnant or breastfeeding

• use of tobacco cessation medication in the past week