Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Enhancing Tobacco Use Treatment for African American Light Smokers
Brief Summary: RATIONALE: A stop-smoking plan that includes health education counseling and bupropion may help African-American smokers stop smoking. It is not yet known whether health education counseling is more effective with or without bupropion in helping African Americans stop smoking.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying health education counseling and bupropion to see how well they work compared with a placebo and health education counseling in helping African Americans smokers stop smoking.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age 18 and older
2. Willingness and ability to give written consent
3. Smoking 20 cigarettes per day for at least 1 year
4. At least one prior attempt to stop smoking
5. Baseline expired carbon-monoxide level of at least 10 ppm
6. Weigh at least 100 lbs.
7. English speaking
8. One person per household

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Pregnant or nursing women or women who do not use a reliable form of birth control
2. Unstable cardiac disease
3. History of dermatoses
4. Current alcohol dependence
5. Current use of opiates
6. A urine drug screen that is positive for opiates
7. Serious current neurologic, psychiatric or medical illness
8. Chronic pain conditions necessitating opioid treatment
9. Evidence of significant hepatocellular injury as evidence by SGOT or SGPT \>3 x normal or elevated bilirubin
10. Current use of smokeless tobacco, pipes, cigars, nicotine gum or nicotine patch
11. Patients requiring concomitant therapy with any psychotropic drug or on any drug with a psychotropic component
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Individuals were eligible for the study if they were age 18 or older, smoked at least 5 cigarettes per day, were willing to quit within 30 days from enrollment in the Helpline, were not pregnant or nursing, agreed to be in the study and randomized, agreed to the follow-up interview, provided a workable phone number with a secondary back-up number, had a BMI of at least 23 and reported having significant concerns about gaining weight with quitting.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Individuals were not eligible for the study if they had a BMI lower than 23 or were pregnant
C: Participants must meet the following criteria:

* Between the ages of 18 and 65
* Smoking greater than 10 cigarettes per day, have done so for the past 2 years, and want to quit
* Engage in 2 or less 30-minute bouts of moderate or vigorous intensity exercise over the past 6 months
* Absence of any medical condition that is contraindicative for exercise
* not pregnant or intending on being pregnant over the course of the study
* Be able to read and write in English
* Have a telephone or an email account that we can reach you at

Exclusion criteria include:

* Contraindication to regular exercise (e.g., disability, unstable angina)
* Contraindications to using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)
* Currently exercise more than twice a week for 30 or more minutes each bout at a moderate to vigorous intensity level and have done so for the past 6 months
* On medication for physical and/or mental health reasons that would make compliance with the study protocol difficult or dangerous
* Have substance dependency problems (e.g., alcohol)
* Are pregnant or are planning on becoming pregnant during the next year
* No Medical Doctor approval for exercise or NicoDerm patch (Nicotine Replacement Therapy; NRT)
D: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* African American who has smoked ≤ 10 cigarettes per day for ≥ 2 years AND has smoked for ≥ 25 days within the past month

  * Not a heavy smoker
  * No other forms of tobacco within the past 30 days
* Must be interested in stopping smoking
* No other smoker in the household enrolled in this study

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

* Has a home address and a functioning telephone number
* Not planning to move from the Kansas City metro area within the next 12 months
* Not pregnant or nursing
* Negative pregnancy test
* No alcohol or substance abuse within the past year
* Not currently drinking ≥ 14 alcoholic drinks per week
* No binge drinking (5 or more drinks on one occasion) on at least two occasions within the past month
* No history of seizures or head trauma
* No history of bulimia or anorexia nervosa
* No myocardial infarction within the past 30 days
* No reported use of opiates, cocaine, or stimulants
* No diabetes requiring oral hypoglycemics or insulin

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

* More than 30 days since prior nicotine replacement therapy, fluoxetine, clonidine, buspirone, or doxepin
* No other concurrent medication that contains bupropion hydrochloride
* No concurrent psychoactive medications

Answer: D