Text Messaging for Smoking Cessation in College Health Clinics

NCT02191033 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: 1404013813
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study is a randomized-controlled clinical trial which evaluates the efficacy of physician brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy and a 6-week course of text messaging in promoting cigarette smoking in smokers enrolled in college. The primary hypothesis is that smokers receiving physician brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy, and text messaging will have higher quit rates that smokers receiving physician brief advice and nicotine replacement therapy alone.

Conditions

Cigarette Smoking

Keywords

cigarette smoking; tobacco use cessation products

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Study Enrollment- Number of Participants Who Join the Study

  We will report the number of persons who join the study.

  baseline

• Study Retention- Number of Participants Who Attend the 6- and 12-week Follow up Visits.

  We will determine the number of enrolled participants who follow up at the 6- and 12- week follow up visit.

  6- and 12- weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Smoking Abstinence

  6- and 12- weeks

Study Arms (2)

Text messaging

EXPERIMENTAL

Smoking counseling, nicotine patch, text messaging

Behavioral: Smoking counseling; Behavioral: Text messaging; Drug: Nicotine patch

Standard of care

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Smoking counseling, nicotine patch

Behavioral: Smoking counseling; Drug: Nicotine patch

Interventions

Smoking counseling BEHAVIORAL

Standard of care; Text messaging

Text messaging BEHAVIORAL

Text messaging

Nicotine patch DRUG

Standard of care; Text messaging

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 24 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Aged 18 through 24 years
• Enrolled as a full/part time college student
• A current smoker (Have smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and now smoke every day or some days)
• English-speaking
• Interested in quitting
• Have a cell phone for personal use with an unlimited text messaging plan.

You may not qualify if:

• History of hypersensitivity/allergy to nicotine patch;
• Serious arrhythmias - History of heart disease (myocardial infarction, severe chest pain, or coronary artery disease)
• Current pregnancy/breastfeeding/plan for pregnancy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Yale University: lead
• Southern Connecticut State University: collaborator
• University of New Haven: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Southern Connecticut State University

New Haven, Connecticut, 06515, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Cigarette Smoking

Interventions

Tobacco Use Cessation Devices

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Tobacco Smoking; Smoking; Behavior; Tobacco Use

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Therapeutics

Limitations and Caveats

This is a pilot and feasibility study.

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Deepa Camenga, MD
• Organization: Yale University

deepa.camenga@yale.edu

203-737-8310

Study Officials

• Deepa R Camenga, MD

  Yale University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 8, 2014
• First Posted: July 15, 2014
• Study Start: January 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2016
• Study Completion: August 1, 2016
• Last Updated: April 1, 2020
• Results First Posted: June 1, 2017

Record last verified: 2020-03

Locations

US (1)