Increasing Contingency Management Success in Smoking Cessation
- Conditions
- Smoking
- Registration Number
- NCT00273793
- Brief Summary
Incentives can be used to facilitate the acquisition of many healthy behaviors, such as smoking cessation. However, there is much room for improvement in the use of incentives. This study investigates how two aspects of providing incentives influence the effectiveness of using incentives to promote smoking cessation. One aspect is the criterion for providing incentives, e.g., whether to require smoking cessation before providing an incentive or to provide incentives following smoking reductions. The other aspect being investigated is whether it is best to use a fixed incentive amount or an amount that increases with continued cessation success.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 328
Daily Smokers smoking a pack or more of cigarettes a day who are able to report to the study site each work day for about 5 minutes for around 3 months. Subjects must also have a breath CO level indicative of smoking at this level, and most report smoking for at least two years. Subjects must intend on quitting smoking.
Participation in another study by this group within the past year. Inability to give informed consent. Incapable of attendance each workday during the morning hours.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Breath Carbon Monoxide Levels Indicating Smoking Abstinence During the Study, i.e., the Number of Breath Samples With Carbon Monoxide (CO) Levels Less Than 3 Parts Per Million (Ppm) daily for breath CO
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Average Number Cigarettes Reported Smoked Each Day in the Past Week Measured at Follow-up Six Months After Entry Into the Study past week at follow-up six months after study entry average number cigarettes reported smoked each day in the past week at follow up six months after study entry
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Smoking Cessation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, UTHSCSA, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive
🇺🇸San Antonio, Texas, United States
Smoking Cessation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, UTHSCSA, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive🇺🇸San Antonio, Texas, United States