Post Acute Coronary Event Smoking Study

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Smoking and depressed mood are both predictive of mortality following Acute Coronary Syndrome. However, to date, no counseling treatment has been designed to target smoking cessation and manage mood in this population. This trial will test such a treatment based on Behavioral Activation, an approach that has shown promise as an integrated treatment for smoking and mood management in other populations.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The Miriam Hospital
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ACS diagnosis documented in medical record

• smoked 3 or more cigarettes per day before being hospitalized

• between the ages of 18-75

• fluent in English

• regular access to a telephone

• lives in the Providence, RI area

• willing to "strongly consider" an attempt to quit smoking at discharge

Exclusion criteria:

• limited mental competency (i.e., Mini-Mental Status exam < 20)

• presence of current psychosis, serious mental illness, or suicidality, expectation that patient will not live through 6 month study period

• currently regularly attending counseling for depression or smoking cessation and plans to continue after discharge