NCT01689168

Chiropractic Treatment With Counseling Versus Counseling Alone for Promoting Smoking Cessation

Chiropractic Treatment With Counseling Versus Counseling Alone for Promoting Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 19 (actual)
• Sponsor: Southern California University of Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Tobacco use is the number one killer of Americans today. Most current smokers have tried and failed to quit at least once. Smokers are addicted to the nicotine in tobacco products, and withdrawal from smoking can lead to physical symptoms such as irritability, anxiety, nervousness, depression and insomnia. This study will examine the effects of tobacco cessation counseling and chiropractic treatments on smokers who desire to quit.

Conditions

• Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Counseling	Tobacco cessation counseling
PROCEDURE	Chiropractic adjustment	Full spine high velocity, low amplitude manipulation of the spine

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-05-01
• First posted: 2012-09-21
• Last updated: 2015-05-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States