Mobile Contingency Management for Smoking Cessation in Returning US Veterans

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Trial end date: 0000-00-00
• Target enrollment: 260
• Participant gender: Both

Summary

The primary goal of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a combined tele-health and contingency management (CM) intervention that the investigators call mobile CM, or mCM, in promoting smoking abstinence in US Veterans. The mCM intervention will combine a mobile system to reward non-smoking, smoking cessation counseling, and smoking cessation medications. The primary aim is to evaluate how effective this intervention is in promoting smoking abstinence compared to telehealth interventions for smoking cessation.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Duke University
• Collaborator: VA Office of Research and Development
• Treatments: Carbon Monoxide; Nicotine
• Last Updated: 2016-08-15

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Smoked at least 10 cigarettes on at least 15 of 30 days before screening

• Served during OEF/OIF/OND era

• Are willing to make a smoking cessation attempt

• Enrolled in the Durham VA for ongoing care

• English speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

• Use and unwillingness to stop use of other forms of nicotine such as cigars, pipes, or chewing tobacco

• Active diagnosis of a primary psychotic disorder per medical record

• Are currently imprisoned or in psychiatric hospitalization

• Severely impaired hearing or speech such that telephone counseling is not possible