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NCT Number: NCT07198971

Feasibility Study Incorporating Music Therapy to Optimise the Smoking Cessation Process Coordinated by a Tobacco Addiction Nurse in Smoking Patients Being Treated for Cancer

The innovative nature of this project lies in the combination of three types of intervention: tobacco addiction treatment, music therapy and therapeutic education.

Three disciplines that work together.

1. Tobacco addiction treatment: reducing consumption, quitting, 2. Music therapy: acting on emotions and reward circuits, 3. Therapeutic education: promoting independent healthy practices. Patients learn to use the soundtrack independently to help them manage withdrawal symptoms caused by reducing or stopping tobacco consumption.

In this programme, patients play an active role on several levels:

* working with the music therapist to create a personalised 'soundtrack'; * identifying situations in which music can help them manage withdrawal symptoms; * using music independently in their everyday lives. The music therapy protocol will be proposed in this study, the soundtrack is co-created by the music therapist and the patient based on the patient's musical tastes and needs. The fact that the patient can use the musical tool independently also gives them significant leverage in their withdrawal process, allowing them to act on withdrawal symptoms and the main factors contributing to relapse.

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Key information

Conditions

Cancer (With or Without Metastasis) Behavior Health Behavior Neoplasms Smoking Cessation

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Institut Du Cancer de Montpellier

Montpellier, Herault, 34298, France

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

GONZALEZ MARIE LAURE, TOBACCO NURSE

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Marie Laure GONZALEZ Tobacco Nurse

CONTACT

[email protected]

04 67 61 47 08

About this study

Music therapy could address the three elements mentioned above:

  • add a practitioner other than the tobacco specialist,
  • increase the patient's perception of self-efficacy,
  • provide the patient with a personalised soundtrack that may have an effect on withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation.

Music therapy could increase the chances of successful cessation. It therefore seems innovative to offer an educational intervention combining the tobacco specialist nurse and the music therapist, which would enable patients to use a musical tool co-developed with the music therapist independently at home. There are no data on the learning and use of such a tool to reinforce self-efficacy in managing smoking cessation. The analysis of the existing literature is poor in terms of music therapy and addiction and virtually non-existent in terms of tobacco addiction.

The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of an intervention combining tobacco addiction treatment and music therapy and its impact on smoking cessation symptoms in patients with cancer who smoke.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients over the age of 18
  • Patients with tobacco-related or non-tobacco-related cancer (excluding blood cancer)
  • Patients who smoke daily
  • Patients wishing to begin a smoking cessation programme
  • Patients with a prognosis of > 1 year
  • Patients who have given their informed, written and express consent
  • Patients affiliated with a French social security scheme

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with uncorrected hearing loss
  • Patients with unstable psychiatric conditions
  • Patients for whom regular follow-up is impossible for psychological, family, social or geographical reasons
  • Patients under guardianship, curatorship or judicial protection

Treatment and study plan

Music Therapy

Other

Music therapy sessions in addition to nursing consultations:

creation of a soundtrack to listen to in order to help quit smoking

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of patients who adhered to the supervised sessions, combining follow-up by a tobacco addiction nurse and follow-up in music therapy

    Time frame: From baseline to month 6

    The patient is considered compliant if they have participated in 4 or more of the 6 supervised sessions combining tobacco addiction consultations

Secondary outcomes

  1. Tobacco use

    Time frame: at baseline, at month 3, at month 6

    Number of cigarettes smoked per day and Measurement of exhaled CO and Tobacco dependence scale score: Simplified Fagerström Test

  2. Withdrawal symptoms

    Time frame: at baseline, at month 3, at month 6

    Scores on the Smoking Cessation Scale

  3. The craving

    Time frame: at baseline, at month 3, at month 6

    Scores obtained on the French Tobacco Craving Questionnaire

  4. Motivation

    Time frame: at baseline, at month3, at month 6

    Scores on the 0-10 Digital Scale assessing motivation

  5. Confidence

    Time frame: at baseline, at month 3, at month 6

    Scores on the EN assessing confidence

  6. Sense of personal competence

    Time frame: at baseline, at month 3, at month 6

    General Self Efficacy Scale questionnaire

  7. Symptoms of anxiety and depression

    Time frame: at baseline, at month 3, at month 6

    Anxiety and depression scores on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

  8. Describe adherence to independent listening in music therapy between T2 and T6.

    Time frame: at baseline, at month 3 and at month 6

    Describe the number of times the patient listened to the audio recording per day, as recorded in a logbook.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Aude Menteaux Music therapist

CONTACT

[email protected]

04 67 61 47 63

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle

Other

Registry information

Acronym: TEMPOS

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Sep 30, 2025
Registry last updated
Apr 9, 2026

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