NCT02354872

Motivation Project: Testing Intervention Components for the Smoker Who is Unwilling to Quit

Optimized Chronic Care for Smokers: A Comparative Effectiveness Approach; Motivation Project: Testing Intervention Components for the Smoker Who is Unwilling to Quit

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 577 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The ultimate goal of this research is to develop a chronic care treatment package for smokers that will address the challenges and opportunities of each phase of the cessation process - motivation, preparation, cessation, maintenance, and relapse recovery. That is, to develop treatments for smokers not yet ready to quit, those who are preparing to quit, those actively engaged in the quitting process and those who have tried to quit but relapsed. To achieve this goal, this research comprises three distinct research studies, each of which represent a phase in a comprehensive chronic care treatment model for clinical intervention with smokers in the primary care setting: the Motivation Study, the Cessation Study, and the Long-term Quitting Study. The goal of each study is to test and identify effective intervention components for distinct phases of the smoking cessation process. These components will then be combined for future research on the effectiveness of this chronic care treatment package. This study is a 2x2x2x2 factorial design. Participants will be randomized to one of two levels on four different factors: 1) Nicotine Mini-Lozenge vs. No Mini-Lozenge, 2) Behavioral Reduction Counseling (intervention: BR) vs. No Behavioral Reduction Counseling, 3) 5Rs Motivation Counseling (intervention 5 R's) vs. No 5Rs Motivation Counseling, and 4) Behavioral Activation Counseling (intervention BA) vs. No Behavioral Activation Counseling. These components have strong theoretical and empirical support, but their relative, additive, and interactive effects are unknown.

Conditions

• Smoking
• Motivation
• Smoking Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Nicotine Mini-Lozenge	If randomized to only the Nicotine Mini-Lozenge condition: Participants randomized to this condition will receive up to a 12 month supply of 2 mg or 4 mg nicotine mini-lozenges. Mini-Lozenges will be given at the initial visit and over the course of the whole study. Participants will be instructed to use 9 pieces daily for the 12 months.
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral Reduction Counseling	We will deliver BR in 10 (10-15 minute) sessions over a 52-week period, with an in-person session at Visit 1 followed by nine phone counseling sessions. Sessions are front-loaded to enhance acquisition of new behaviors. BR Counseling will emphasize the development of smoking control skills via feasible, specific, and graded assignments of smoking reduction activities that will be tracked over time. BR will also emphasize competence and self-efficacy, both which will be directly linked to the practice of smoking reduction skills and success in smoking control. The health counselor will provide rationales for the reduction intervention, why reduction (e.g., eliminating smoking contexts) should help the smoker, and provide the participant with specific exercises and goals. The health counselor will explicitly address pragmatic issues such as work contexts, smoking policies, and habits that interfere with smoking reduction efforts.
BEHAVIORAL	5Rs Motivation Counseling	The 5Rs Motivation Counseling will be delivered in four (10-15 min) sessions over a 52-week period. Participants in the "on" condition will receive three brief phone sessions over the year to prompt processing of motives for smoking reduction or cessation. The health counselor and smoker will discuss: 1) Relevance of smoking to the individual; 2) Risks of continued heavy smoking; 3) Rewards of quitting and significant reduction; and 4) Roadblocks to success; and will do so on a 5) Repeated basis. The discussion will follow the general principles of MI: counselors will use strategies that are nonauthoritarian, nonconfrontational, supportive, and use open-ended questions.
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral Activation Counseling	The BA treatment will be delivered in 10 (10-15 minute) sessions over a 52-week period starting with Visit 1 followed by nine phone counseling sessions. This BA treatment will be modeled after Behavioral Activation for quitting smoking, but made relevant for smoking reduction. Treatment goals focus on helping participants engage in positively reinforcing activities while not smoking. The treatment includes: 1) a rationale for the BA exercises as they relate to smoking (e.g., engaging in non-smoking reinforcers will provide other sources of pleasure and assist with cutting down); 2) assessment of the participant's goals, values, and reinforcing value of current nonsmoking activities; 3) training in self-monitoring using an activity log; 4) ongoing assignments of activities that should significantly increase the participant's nonsmoking reinforcement and create broader lifestyle and cue exposure changes; and 5) problem-solving to address obstacles to goal attainment.
OTHER	No Treatment	No Treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-03-19
• Completion: 2019-03-19
• First posted: 2015-02-03
• Last updated: 2020-09-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States