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Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Smokers
In Brief
A Phase 4 clinical trial evaluating Nicotine Patches, Telephone Counseling, and 1 other intervention for Smoking Cessation. Completed, enrolled 1,270 participants across 6 sites.
Detailed Summary
When smokers are hospitalized they quit smoking, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Most of them, however, go back to smoking soon after discharge. This study will test an innovative approach which includes dispensing nicotine patches at discharge, providing proactive telephone counseling post discharge, or giving a combination of the two. The interventions are aimed at increasing the long term quit rate of these patients. The specific aims of the study are to demonstrate the effects of two interventions, dispensing nicotine patches at discharge and providing proactive telephone counseling soon after discharge, on 12-month quit rates of hospitalized smokers in a 2 x 2 factorial design.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Subjects randomized into the patch condition will receive 8 weeks of nicotine patches at discharge. The kit will contain 4 weeks of 21mg patches, 2 weeks of 14mg, and 2 weeks of 7mg.
Up to 5 proactive counseling sessions from California Smokers' Helpline.
All subjects receive bedside counseling either from Respiratory Therapists or nurses according to the hospital's particular practices.