Smoking Cessation Among Methadone Maintained Patients

OBJECTIVES:

• Determine the efficacy of a brief motivational intervention on smoking cessation in smokers enrolled in a methadone maintenance program.

OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 groups.

• Group 1: Patients undergo assessment at baseline and at 1, 3, and 6 months.
• Group 2: Patients receive a brief motivational intervention at the time of their baseline assessment and undergo assessment as in group 1.

All patients will be offered a 2- to 3-month supply of nicotine patches.