Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Phase 2 Study of the Efficacy of Voucher-Based Incentives to Treat Pregnant Smokers
Brief Summary: The major goal of this project is to examine the efficacy of a voucher-based incentive program for promoting smoking cessation (Study 1) and preventing relapse (Study 2) during pregnancy and postpartum. Identifying efficacious interventions to increase cessation rates and decrease relapse among those who are able to quit is important to improving U.S. public health.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* at least 18 years
* pregnant, gestation \<= 27 weeks
* cigarette smoking in the past week (even if only one puff)

Exclusion Criteria:

* inability to speak or understand spoken English
* do not intend to carry pregnancy to full term
* frank psychosis
B: Inclusion Criteria: Only women will participate in the proposed study, because the overarching aim is to develop efficacious treatments for smoking cessation and relapse prevention during pregnancy and early postpartum. All participants will be currently pregnant and report being smokers at the time of conception. Those in Study 1 will report continuing to smoke upon entering prenatal care. Those in Study 2 will report having already quit smoking upon entering prenatal care. Women must reside in the county in which the clinic is located, plan to reside in this geographical area through 6 months postpartum, be \< 25 weeks gestation, not be living in a group residence, English speaking, and not regularly receiving psychotropics other than antidepressants.

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Exclusion Criteria: Women receiving opioid substitution therapy will be excluded. In Vermont, minorities comprise 4% of the general population. There will be no exclusion criteria concerning race or ethnicity. In our studies during the prior funding period, approximately 5% of participants were minorities. We anticipate a similar sample in the proposed studies. We shall do all that we can to assure that minorities are included in the research.

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C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Be at least 18 years of age
* Be between 13 and 25 weeks of pregnancy
* Be receiving prenatal care at one of the participating clinics
* Have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime
* Be currently smoking and have smoked at least 5 cigarettes per day in the past 7 days
* Speak and write English

Exclusion Criteria:

* Evidence of cognitive or mental health problems
* Evidence of possible drug or alcohol addiction
* Documented history in medical chart of mental retardation, significant chronic or recurrent psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia or severe depression, history of cardiac arrhythmias, history of myocardial infarction within the past 6 months, history of previous pregnancy with congenital anomaly,family history of congenital anomalies
* Complications of pregnancy during the current pregnancy, including: threatened miscarriage, congenital anomalies, unexplained vaginal bleeding, pelvic or abdominal surgical procedures, deep venous thrombosis, malignancy
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Pregnant women
* current cigarette smoker (smoked \>5 cigarettes in the past 7 days)
* 18 years old or older

Exclusion Criteria:

* More than 24 weeks' gestation at study entry
* No telephone access
* Not planning to live in Athens for 1 year
* Unable to read and speak Greek
* Alcoholics
* Use of drug substances
* Depression

Answer: B