Web-based Smoking Cessation Program for Tribal College Students
Condition: Smoking Cessation
Intervention: Internet-All Nations Breath of Life (I-ANBL); Honoring the Gift of Heart Health; Nicotine gum, Patch, or Lozenge or Zyban® or Chantix®
Intervention description: Participants will be asked to log into the website prior to the first session to allow for any problems with the site to be fixed prior to sessions starting. Topics we anticipate covering include, but are not limited to: preparing to quit, dealing with cravings, support systems, traditional tobacco, stress reduction, weight management, and staying quit, along with other topics determined during program development. For each session, the tribal college student will begin the session by answering a series of questions to produce an individually-tailored report that will be provided on the screen at the end of each week's session so that the smoker can work on strategies during the week before the next internet session
Weekly procedures will follow the same format as for the first session; These sessions help American Indians learn about what they can do to prevent heart disease. We will emphasize the increase consumption of fruits and vegetables as well as addressing other heart healthy activities. Honoring the Gift of Heart Health is a user-friendly program developed especially for American Indians. The manual provides the "how-to" for leading group education sessions. It offers "hands-on" activities that help people build the skills they need to make simple, practical, and lasting changes to help them fight heart disease. The protocol will follow procedures as the I-ANBL arm, however, this fruit and vegetable arm will not include individually tailored components, but just interactive web-based materials related to increasing heart health, including certain activities.; Regardless of the intervention arm to which subjects are assigned, they will choose the option of nicotine replacement therapy they want, as long as they are eligible for it. All participants are offered the medications, but they do not have to take any medication to participate in the study.
Intervention MeSH terms: Nicotine; Varenicline
Phase: Phase 3
Study type: Interventional
Primary purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Enrollment: 251.0
Sex: All
Minimum age: 18 Years
Healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Summary:

      The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of a culturally-tailored
      Internet-based program that helps American Indian (AI) tribal college students quit smoking.
    

Eligibility criteria:

        Inclusion Criteria:

          -  Currently enrolled at Salish Kootenai College

          -  Have a valid telephone number and email address

          -  Willing to participate in all study components

          -  Willing to be followed-up for 6 months

          -  Self identifies as American Indian or Alaska Native

          -  Is a current smoker

        Exclusion Criteria:

          -  Planning to leave college within next 6 months

          -  Medically ineligible as a result of screening questions