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New Strategies to Enhance Smoking Cessation

Description

The study goal is to get feedback on ways researchers can communicate complex research findings on smoking cessation to better inform patients' decisions to use medication and/or quit smoking. This will help researchers and clinicians to provide effective, easy-to-implement treatments designed to address tobacco-related health disparities in Black and other racial/ethnic subgroups. It will also help improve health literacy to change misperceptions and mistrust on uptake of varenicline and other medication for quitting smoking. A professionally made video will explain research findings relevant for varenicline's mechanisms and outcomes relative to other treatment options. There are 2 parts to this study: * Part 1: Focus Group to help develop the educational tool intervention * Part 2: Randomized portion of study. In this part of the study, participants will be randomized (like flip of coin) to take part in receive the experimental educational intervention or usual methods to help stop smoking. Participants in either arm can choose to receive varenicline and it will be provided as part of study.

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The study goal is to get feedback on ways researchers can communicate complex research findings on smoking cessation to better inform patients' decisions to use medication and/or quit smoking. This will help researchers and clinicians to provide effective, easy-to-implement treatments designed to address tobacco-related health disparities in Black and other racial/ethnic subgroups. It will also help improve health literacy to change misperceptions and mistrust on uptake of varenicline and other medication for quitting smoking. A professionally made video will explain research findings relevant for varenicline's mechanisms and outcomes relative to other treatment options. There are 2 parts to this study: * Part 1: Focus Group to help develop the educational tool intervention * Part 2: Randomized portion of study. In this part of the study, participants will be randomized (like flip of coin) to take part in receive the experimental educational intervention or usual methods to help stop smoking. Participants in either arm can choose to receive varenicline and it will be provided as part of study.

Uptake of Varenicline and Strategies for Enhanced Engagement in Treatment for Smoking Cessation

New Strategies to Enhance Smoking Cessation

Condition
Smoking Cessation
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Patients must smoke at least 10 cigarettes/day and do not currently use a smoking cessation medication.
  • * Ages 18-75.
  • * Agree to complete surveys and measures within study.
  • * Ability to understand English and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
  • * Patients who are receiving any other smoking cessation medications.
  • * Patients who are pregnant and/or lactating.
  • * Patients with psychiatric contraindications that can prevent adherence to protocol or use of intervention tools in study. For inclusivity on trial, psychiatric contraindications and ability for patient to participate in trial will be assessed on an individual basis by study investigator.
  • * Patients who have a contraindication with varenicline.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 75 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Chicago,

Andrea C. King, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Chicago

Study Record Dates

2030-12