NCT00278226

Motivational Program for Smokers Enrolled in a Methadone Maintenance Program

Smoking Cessation Among Methadone Maintained Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 398 (actual)
• Sponsor: Butler Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

RATIONALE: Stop-smoking programs may help patients stop smoking and prevent cancer from forming. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well a motivational program works in helping smokers enrolled in a methadone maintenance program quit smoking.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: * Determine the efficacy of a brief motivational intervention on smoking cessation in smokers enrolled in a methadone maintenance program. OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 groups. * Group 1: Patients undergo assessment at baseline and at 1, 3, and 6 months. * Group 2: Patients receive a brief motivational intervention at the time of their baseline assessment and undergo assessment as in group 1. All patients will be offered a 2- to 3-month supply of nicotine patches. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 400 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

• Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	smoking cessation intervention
OTHER	educational intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-06-01
• Primary completion: 2004-10-01
• Completion: 2004-10-01
• First posted: 2006-01-18
• Last updated: 2010-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States