Smoking Tobacco and Drinking Study

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-06-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This trial will test the efficacy of a 3-month intervention on Facebook targeting tobacco use and heavy episodic drinking against a 3-month Facebook intervention targeting tobacco use. Both groups will be offered a nicotine patch starter kit. The primary outcome is verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence from smoking at 3, 6, and 12 months.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Collaborator: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• read English

• between 18 and 25 years of age

• indicate they use Facebook "most" (≥ 4) days per week

• have smoked ≥100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 4 or more days of the week

• have had at least one heavy drinking episode (5+ for men, 4+ for women) in the past month.

Exclusion Criteria:

• do not read English

• are not between 18 and 25 years of age

• indicate they do not use Facebook "most" (≥ 4) days per week

• have not smoked ≥100 cigarettes in their lives and currently smoke at least 1 cigarette per day on 4 or more days of the week

• have not had at least one heavy drinking episode (5+ for men, 4+ for women) in the past month.