Smoking Cessation Program Among Adolescents in Vocational Training Centers

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tobacco Use
• Interventions: Behavioral: TABADO program

• Registration Number: NCT00973570
• Lead Sponsor: Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

Brief Summary

Background: Most of the efforts to fight against young people's tobacco addiction have focused on smoking prevention and little on smoking cessation. A smoking cessation program, associating pharmacologic and cognitive-behavioural strategy, on a particularly vulnerable population (vocational trainees), was developed by a team of tobacco addiction specialist physicians. We developed a study to evaluate the efficacy of the program. Its main objective is to compare the efficacy of a smoking cessation program offered to all smokers in a population aged 15 to 20 years in Vocational Training Centers (VTC) with that in a control population. The objective of this paper is to present the TABADO study protocol and the results of the pilot study.

Methods: The study is quasi-experimental, prospective, evaluative and comparative and takes place during the 2 years of vocational training. The final population will be composed of 2000 trainees entering a VTC (in Lorraine, France): The intervention group (1000 trainees) benefited from the TABADO program while no specific intervention took place in the "control" group (1000 trainees) other than the treatment and education services usually available. Our primary outcome will be the tobacco abstinence rate at 12 months.

The pilot study is a descriptive monocentric cross-sectional study conducted among the whole group of students, completed by a longitudinal prospective study of smoker volunteers.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-02
• Status Verified: 2009-09
• Study First Submitted: 2009-09-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-09-08
• Study First Posted: 2009-09-09
• Primary Completion: 2010-01
• Study Completion: 2010-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-03-25
• Last Update Posted: 2025-03-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2000

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
"Intervention" group	TABADO program	The "intervention" group benefits from the TABADO program

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The primary outcome is the rate of smoking abstinence after 12 months, measured on the basis of the statements of the whole sample, not only among volunteers.	12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Overall prevalence of tobacco use in the institutions concerned at 12 months.	12 months
Students' motivation to quit smoking (motivational score) and frequency of attempts to quit within the 12 months after the intervention	12 months
Rate of withdrawal from the program among the volunteers after 12 months.	12 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHU Nancy; 🇫🇷 Nancy, Lorraine, France