NCT02085616

Effectiveness of the Swedish National Tobacco Quitline

Smoking Cessation by Telephone. Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Proactive and Reactive Services at the Swedish National Tobacco Quitline (SNTQ).

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 586 (actual)
• Sponsor: Uppsala University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the high-intensity proactive service with the low-intensity reactive service at the Swedish National Tobacco Quitline (SNTQ). Our hypothesis was that the effectiveness is about 5% higher in proactive than in reactive service. The structured treatment protocol is a mixture of motivational interviewing (MI), cognitive behavior therapy, and pharmacological consultation.The standard process at the SNTQ is to offer the client a choice of callback (proactive service) or no callback (reactive service). In the present study clients were not offered a choice, but were randomized to proactive service on even dates and to reactive service on odd dates. Data are collected through postal questionnaires, one baseline and one follow-up after 12 months.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Tobacco Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Proactive service	In the proactive service the callers to the quitline are offered a number of callbacks.
BEHAVIORAL	Reactive service	In the reactive service the callers to the quitline are informed that they can themselves call back whenever they like.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2014-03-13
• Last updated: 2014-03-13

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Sweden