NCT03996902

Increasing Cessation Motivation and Treatment Engagement Among Smokers in Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 76 (actual)
• Sponsor: Syracuse University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to develop and pilot test a brief intervention to increase motivation to quit and smoking cessation treatment engagement among smokers with chronic pain.

Detailed description

Pain and tobacco smoking are both critical national health problems, and there is mounting evidence that smokers in pain may represent an important and large subgroup who experience unique barriers and greater difficulty quitting. Smoking has been identified as a risk factor in the onset and exacerbation of chronic pain, and smokers experience greater levels of pain intensity and disability, relative to non-smokers. Initial evidence indicates that quitting smoking may improve pain outcomes (e.g., lower pain intensity) and supports the notion that smoking cessation may be an essential behavior change for smokers in pain. However, the vast majority of smokers are not yet ready to engage a serious quit attempt, and evidence-based treatments for smoking cessation remain dramatically underutilized. Therefore, the goal of this study is to develop and pilot test a brief intervention that will address smoking in the context of pain in order to increase motivation to quit smoking and engagement of available smoking cessation treatment. Participants will be randomized to either the adapted brief motivational intervention or an intervention consistent with standard clinical practice

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Smoking
• Smoking Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Tailored intervention	Brief motivational smoking intervention tailored to address smoking in the context of pain. Included a novel pain-smoking psycho education component, personalized feedback component, and elicitation of participant's pain-related goals to develop discrepancy between continued smoking and desired pain outcomes.
BEHAVIORAL	Ask-Advise-Refer	The Ask-Advise-Refer intervention is commonly used in standard clinical practice.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-10
• Primary completion: 2016-07-01
• Completion: 2016-07-01
• First posted: 2019-06-25
• Last updated: 2019-06-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States