Overview

Health Education Counseling With or Without Bupropion in Helping African Americans Stop Smoking

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2010-06-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
RATIONALE: A stop-smoking plan that includes health education counseling and bupropion may help African-American smokers stop smoking. It is not yet known whether health education counseling is more effective with or without bupropion in helping African Americans stop smoking. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying health education counseling and bupropion to see how well they work compared with a placebo and health education counseling in helping African Americans smokers stop smoking.
Phase:
Phase 4
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Lisa Cox, PhD
Lisa Sanderson Cox, PhD
Collaborator:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Treatments:
Bupropion
Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

- African American who has smoked ≤ 10 cigarettes per day for ≥ 2 years AND has smoked
for ≥ 25 days within the past month

- Not a heavy smoker

- No other forms of tobacco within the past 30 days

- Must be interested in stopping smoking

- No other smoker in the household enrolled in this study

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

- Has a home address and a functioning telephone number

- Not planning to move from the Kansas City metro area within the next 12 months

- Not pregnant or nursing

- Negative pregnancy test

- No alcohol or substance abuse within the past year

- Not currently drinking ≥ 14 alcoholic drinks per week

- No binge drinking (5 or more drinks on one occasion) on at least two occasions within
the past month

- No history of seizures or head trauma

- No history of bulimia or anorexia nervosa

- No myocardial infarction within the past 30 days

- No reported use of opiates, cocaine, or stimulants

- No diabetes requiring oral hypoglycemics or insulin

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

- More than 30 days since prior nicotine replacement therapy, fluoxetine, clonidine,
buspirone, or doxepin

- No other concurrent medication that contains bupropion hydrochloride

- No concurrent psychoactive medications