Identifying Treatments to Motivate Smokers to Quit
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2014-05-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
At any given point in time, most smokers are not interested in making a serious quit attempt.
Data suggest that 30% of smokers have no plans to quit, 30% plan to quit at some future date,
30% plan to quit in the next 6 months, and about 10% plan to quit in the next month. While
~40% of smokers make a quit attempt each year, only about 4-6% of those achieve long-term
success. This means that of the more than 60 million Americans who smoke, only 1 million are
able to quit each year. If we could double the number of quit attempts and maintain
comparable success rates, we could double the number of individuals who will benefit from
living smoke free lives. These observations underscore the need to develop interventions that
increase smokers' motivation or willingness to make quit attempts, and that also increase the
rate of success among those who attempt to quit. The overall goal of this proposed experiment
is to identify effective interventions aimed at increasing motivation for smoking cessation,
increasing quit attempts, and increasing rates of cessation success. Interventions that will
be tested include: use of nicotine gum, use of nicotine patches, motivational interviewing,
and smoking reduction counseling. At minimum, all participants will complete surveys about
their smoking behavior that might increase their motivation to eventually quitting smoking.
Phase:
Phase 4
Details
Lead Sponsor:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Collaborators:
Aurora Health Care Dean Health System Mercy Health System Mercy Health System, Wisconsin National Cancer Institute (NCI) University of Illinois at Chicago