A primary care study of tailored advice for stopping smoking

Completed

Conditions: Smoking cessation
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Nicotene addition

Registration Number: ISRCTN05385712

Lead Sponsor: niversity College London (UCL) (UK)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 7250

Inclusion Criteria

All current cigarette smokers aged 18 to 65, either sex, able to read English will be eligible for inclusion in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria are minimal because the aim is to recruit all smokers. However, any patients selected who are considered by the GP to be unsuitable for the project, e.g., people with severe mental impairment or severely or terminally ill, will be excluded.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Prolonged abstinence for 1 month and for 3 months at the 6-month follow-up.<br><br>Outcomes will be measured by postal questionnaire. Non-respondents to questionnaires will receive one postal reminder. Non-respondents to the reminder will be contacted by telephone. In order to estimate the accuracy of self-reports, a random sample of 20% of the participants who report abstinence will have their status validated by salivary cotinine sample, obtained by post.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. 24 hour and 7 day point-prevalence abstinence<br>2. Quit attempts<br>3. Changes in motivation and intention to quit<br>4. Cognitions measured at baseline<br>5. Use of Nicotene Replacement Therapy (NRT) or Zyban<br>6. Any contact with advice services or health professionals (group, clinic, telephone, or face-to-face)<br>7. Use of NHS resources and other smoking cessation aids for economic analysis<br><br>Process measures: <br>1. Adherence to advice<br>2. Perceptions of the feedback reports<br>3. Perceived personal relevance of the feedback reports<br><br>Information from General Practices: <br>Performance against target figures set by PCTs before and after the intervention as indicators of activity