This study is a randomized-controlled clinical trial which evaluates the efficacy of physician brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy and a 6-week course of text messaging in promoting cigarette smoking in smokers enrolled in college. The primary hypothesis is that smokers receiving physician brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy, and text messaging will have higher quit rates that smokers receiving physician brief advice and nicotine replacement therapy alone.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
40
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Study Enrollment- Number of Participants Who Join the Study
We will report the number of persons who join the study.
Time frame: baseline
Study Retention- Number of Participants Who Attend the 6- and 12-week Follow up Visits.
We will determine the number of enrolled participants who follow up at the 6- and 12- week follow up visit.
Time frame: 6- and 12- weeks
Smoking Abstinence
biochemically confirmed point prevalence of self reported past 7-day abstinence
Time frame: 6- and 12- weeks
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