A Phase III clinical trial currently recruiting participants. The two treatments are behavioral counseling and mood management intervention. Behavioral counseling includes behavioral methods to assist the participant in stopping smoking. The mood management intervention consists of strategies to assist the participant in managing their mood without smoking.
All participants have an equal chance of being assigned to one of the two treatments.
In addition all participants in both treatment groups will be provided with nicotine patch therapy for 6 weeks. The total duration of study participation will be 1 year. Study participants who qualify will be invited to an information meeting. Signed informed consent will be obtained. All participants will be asked to return for weekly visits of two hour duration over the first eight weeks of the study.