This is a randomized study of message framing in individuals beginning a smoking cessation program utilizing bupropion SR and brief counseling, videos, and pamphlets.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
252
This investigation was a randomized controlled study of two framed message conditions for smoking cessation in combination with open label bupropion SR (300 mg/day). Two hundred fifty-eight cigarette smokers were randomly assigned to receive either gain- or loss-framed video and printed messages encouraging smoking abstinence. Preproduced video and printed information were chosen as the intervention media because of their reliability in delivering specific framed messages. All participants were seen at a community mental health center for 6 months and received a 7-week supply of bupropion SR.
Substance Abuse Treatment Unit
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Smoking Cessation at 7 days
Time frame: 7-day point prevalence abstinence
Continuous Smoking Abstinence at 6 weeks
6-week continuous abstinence.
Time frame: 6 weeks
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