A Future Thinking Intervention for Comorbid Tobacco Use Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

Description

Future Self-BD is a 6-session virtual intervention that encourages participants to vividly generate personal and positive future events that they anticipate may be benefited by smoking cessation. Each session will be conducted on HIPAA-compliant Zoom and led by the PI (Dr. Gold).

Conditions

Bipolar Disorder, Tobacco Use Disorder

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Future Self-BD is a 6-session virtual intervention that encourages participants to vividly generate personal and positive future events that they anticipate may be benefited by smoking cessation. Each session will be conducted on HIPAA-compliant Zoom and led by the PI (Dr. Gold).

Future Self: an Episodic Future Thinking Intervention for Comorbid Tobacco Use Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

A Future Thinking Intervention for Comorbid Tobacco Use Disorder and Bipolar Disorder

Condition
Bipolar Disorder
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Boston

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114

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

  • * Adults aged 18 or older
  • * Have a diagnosis of BD I or II
  • * Have a diagnosis of tobacco use disorder
  • * Be engaged in outpatient treatment with a medical provider
  • * Be on a stable dose of a mood-stabilizing medication
  • * Smoke an average of at least 5 cigarettes per day for the past 30 days at baseline (based on the Heaviness of Smoking Index(Heatherton et al., 1989))
  • * Be interested in quitting smoking
  • * Not currently or in the past 3 months be receiving smoking cessation treatment.
  • * Current psychosis
  • * Intent to harm oneself with an associated plan and intent to act on suicidal thoughts
  • * Experiencing severe symptoms of depression and/or hypomania that may warrant a higher level of care (a Patient Health Questionnaire-9 total score ≥ 20(Kroenke et al., 2001) and/or an Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale total score ≥ 6(Altman et al., 1997) will trigger further clinician evaluation)

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Massachusetts General Hospital,

Alexandra K Gold, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Record Dates

2028-10