Remote Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Cardiac Patients

Description

The investigators are proposing to examine new strategies for helping patients hospitalized for an acute coronary event adhere to recommendations to quit smoking. The investigators are interested to see whether offering financial incentives for smoking cessation, combined with medications to ameliorate withdrawal, can significantly reduce smoking in a population for which continued smoking has disproportionately negative health effects. The proposed trial can provide significant knowledge for promoting adherence to smoking cessation guidelines in patients with cardiac disease

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

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Study Details

Study overview

The investigators are proposing to examine new strategies for helping patients hospitalized for an acute coronary event adhere to recommendations to quit smoking. The investigators are interested to see whether offering financial incentives for smoking cessation, combined with medications to ameliorate withdrawal, can significantly reduce smoking in a population for which continued smoking has disproportionately negative health effects. The proposed trial can provide significant knowledge for promoting adherence to smoking cessation guidelines in patients with cardiac disease

Remote Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Cardiac Patients: Bridging the Post-discharge

Remote Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Cardiac Patients

Condition
Smoking Cessation
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Burlington

University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont, United States, 05405

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

  • 1. Hospitalization for an acute coronary event which includes myocardial infarction or coronary revascularization (percutaneous intervention or coronary artery bypass)
  • 2. live within 30 miles of UVMMC and are \>18 years of age
  • 3. Current cigarette smoker (defined as reporting any use of cigarettes in the week before admission and \>5 cigarette/day on average over the past 3 months)
  • 1. severe dementia/Alzheimer's disease
  • 2. an active malignancy, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer or low-grade prostate cancer under active surveillance
  • 3. exercise limiting vascular or neuromuscular disease
  • 4. Non-English Speaking
  • 5. No reliable smart-phone
  • 6. Current, regular use of smokeless tobacco or other form of non-combusted tobacco

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Vermont Medical Center,

Study Record Dates

2025-05