Helping Veterans With SMI "StayQuit" From Smoking After Inpatient Hospitalization

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: StayQuit Intervention
• Interventions: Behavioral: StayQuit

• Registration Number: NCT03367520
• Lead Sponsor: University of Maryland, Baltimore

Brief Summary

Given the high prevalence and great cost of smoking for individuals with serious mental illness, an effective smoking cessation intervention for this group of smokers that begins in the hospital and continues following discharge is needed. The investigators will develop and pilot test StayQuit, a multifaceted smoking cessation intervention for smokers with serious mental illness that begins in the hospital and continues for three months after discharge. StayQuit will provide a personalized and tailored experience for smokers with serious mental illness at different levels of motivation to remain abstinent. In the hospital, StayQuit will include a brief motivational intervention that will help smokers relate sustained smoking cessation to their values and preferences, shore up motivation to stay quit, and gain experience using nicotine replacement therapy. This will be followed by cessation-focused discharge planning to engage Veterans in continued smoking cessation services with StayQuit staff. After discharge, StayQuit will offer 13 weeks (spread out over 3 months) of smoking cessation telephone counseling. The investigators will examine the feasibility of StayQuit by collecting both quantitative data on attendance and qualitative data on participants' experiences.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-06-07
• Study First Submitted: 2017-12-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-12-04
• Study First Posted: 2017-12-08
• Primary Completion: 2018-12-31
• Study Completion: 2018-12-31
• Status Verified: 2020-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-04-02
• Last Update Posted: 2020-04-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 29

Inclusion Criteria

• Currently receiving inpatient care at the Baltimore VAMC inpatient psychiatric unit
• 18 years of age or older
• Self-reported smoking of 5+ cigarettes a day prior to hospitalization

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Exclusion Criteria

• Documented history of severe neurological disorder
• Intellectual developmental disorder indicated by chart review

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
StayQuit	StayQuit	StayQuit offers 3 meetings during hospitalization and up 13 telephone calls. StayQuit begins in the hospital with an assessment of motivation to remain quit after discharge and a brief intervention to develop discrepancy between values and behaviors and generate change talk. Participants are also encouraged to try nicotine replacement therapy during the hospitalization and after discharge. Telephone counseling is brief and focused on managing withdrawal from nicotine, coping with cravings, and supporting use of NRT. The investigators will work with hospital staff as needed to ensure that nicotine replacement therapy is offered to participants during the inpatient stay and prescribed at discharge.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Attendance at in-person StayQuit sessions	4 weeks	Number of in-person StayQuit sessions a participant completes
Attendance at telephone StayQuit sessions	13 weeks	Number of telephone StayQuit sessions a participant completes

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Baltimore VA Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States