N/A Completed N=310 Randomized Treatment

Abstinence Reinforcement Therapy (ART) for Rural Veteran Smokers

Veteran · Smoking Cessation

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01723163 ↗

Enrolled (actual)

310

Serious AEs

0.0%

Results posted

Mar 2019

Primary outcomePrimary: Number of Participants With Abstinence or Non-Abstinence at 6-month Follow-up — 38; 40; 77; 83 Participants

Summary

The primary goal of the current study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a combined tele-health and contingency management (CM) intervention that investigators are calling Abstinence Reinforcement Therapy (ART). Proposed is a comparative effectiveness trial with a two-group design in which 310 Veteran smokers will be randomized to either: ABSTINENCE REINFORCEMENT THERAPY (ART) a proactive tele-health intervention that combines guideline based cognitive-behavioral telephone counseling (TC), a tele-medicine clinic for access to nicotine replacement (NRT), and intensive behavioral therapy through mobile contingency management. TELE-HEALTH FOR SMOKING CESSATION a proactive tele-health intervention that will provide controls for therapist, medication, time and attention effects. The tele-health intervention provides the same guideline based cognitive-behavioral smoking cessation telephone counseling (TC), and tele-medicine clinic for access to NRT as in the ART intervention.

Outcome Measures

Outcome	Result	p-value
PRIMARY Number of Participants With Abstinence or Non-Abstinence at 6-month Follow-up	38; 40; 77; 83; 41; 31	—

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Enrolled in the Durham VA for ongoing care.
Current smokers planning to quit smoking in the next 30 days.

Exclusion Criteria

Active diagnosis of psychosis documented in the medical record.
Does not have access to a telephone.
Severely impaired hearing or speech (Veterans must be able to respond to phone calls).

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