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NCT Number: NCT00273793

Increasing Contingency Management Success in Smoking Cessation

Incentives can be used to facilitate the acquisition of many healthy behaviors, such as smoking cessation. However, there is much room for improvement in the use of incentives. This study investigates how two aspects of providing incentives influence the effectiveness of using incentives to promote smoking cessation. One aspect is the criterion for providing incentives, e.g., whether to require smoking cessation before providing an incentive or to provide incentives following smoking reductions. The other aspect being investigated is whether it is best to use a fixed incentive amount or an amount that increases with continued cessation success.

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Key information

Conditions

Smoking Behavior

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Smoking Cessation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, UTHSCSA, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive

San Antonio, Texas, 78229-3900, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

Daily Smokers smoking a pack or more of cigarettes a day who are able to report to the study site each work day for about 5 minutes for around 3 months. Subjects must also have a breath CO level indicative of smoking at this level, and most report smoking for at least two years. Subjects must intend on quitting smoking.

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Exclusion criteria

Participation in another study by this group within the past year. Inability to give informed consent. Incapable of attendance each workday during the morning hours.

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Treatment and study plan

Contingency Management

Behavioral

incentives are available for reduced smoking on each study visit which occur each weekday.

Primary outcomes

  1. Breath Carbon Monoxide Levels Indicating Smoking Abstinence During the Study, i.e., the Number of Breath Samples With Carbon Monoxide (CO) Levels Less Than 3 Parts Per Million (Ppm)

    Time frame: daily for breath CO

Secondary outcomes

  1. Average Number Cigarettes Reported Smoked Each Day in the Past Week Measured at Follow-up Six Months After Entry Into the Study

    Time frame: past week at follow-up six months after study entry

    average number cigarettes reported smoked each day in the past week at follow up six months after study entry

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Registry information

Official study title

Increasing Contingency Management Success Using Shaping

Important dates

Study start
2005
Primary completion
2010
Study completion
2010
First posted
Jan 9, 2006
Registry last updated
Jun 21, 2012

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