Clinical trial NCT00492310: Yoga for Women Attempting Smoking Cessation
Official title: Yoga for Women Attempting Smoking Cessation: an Initial Investigation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Smoking
Keywords: Smoking
tobacco
women
yoga
Lead sponsor: The Miriam Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
First posted: 2007-06-27
Enrollment: 60
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility, acceptability and initial effectiveness of adding yoga to a traditional, group-based treatment for smoking cessation for women smokers.

Detailed description: Smoking is the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality among women in the US. Quitting smoking may be especially problematic for women. As a form of exercise, yoga shares many of the same properties as traditional (Western) aerobic exercise which our previous research has shown to be an effective addition to smoking cessation. Yoga may also offer other benefits that may make it an especially effective complimentary treatment for women who are attempting to quit smoking.

In this study we will recruit two cohorts of 30 women smokers and provide cognitive-behavioral therapy for smoking cessation once weekly for 12 weeks. In addition, participants will be randomly assigned them to receive either; (1) Yoga or (2) a Wellness program (contact-control), twice weekly during the program. All participants will be assessed for changes in smoking behavior, psychosocial variables relevant to smoking cessation and other psychological constructs that may act as mechanisms of action (mediators) of yoga and smoking cessation. These variables include; weight concerns, perceived stress, mindfulness, self-esteem, quality of life and group cohesion. Interviews will be used to collect qualitative data at the end of each cohort. The proposed study is designed to provide information necessary to establish several research fundamentals necessary to support a full scale efficacy trial. These include: 1) establishing intervention feasibility and acceptability in the target population, 2) piloting recruitment and retention procedures and identifying barriers to participation, 3) obtaining qualitative feedback from participants to enhance treatment content and/or design, 4) establishing anticipated effect size estimates, and 5) identifying likely mechanisms of action that may be responsible for intervention efficacy.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Female, Age 18-65, Cigarette smoking 10 or more per day for more than 1 year, sedentary (not exercising more than 2 days per week)

Exclusion Criteria:

Major depression, Hypertension, Current yoga practice, Current mind/body therapies

Primary outcomes:
measure: smoking cessation: 7-day point prevalence abstinence
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Acceptability: recruitment, retention, adherence to protocol
timeFrame: 12 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Providence
country: United States
facility: The Miriam Hospital
state: Rhode Island
Study officials:
affiliation: The Miriam Hospital
name: Beth C Bock, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Jackson S, Brown J, Norris E, Livingstone-Banks J, Hayes E, Lindson N. Mindfulness for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 Apr 14;4(4):CD013696. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013696.pub2.
citation: Bock BC, Morrow KM, Becker BM, Williams DM, Tremont G, Gaskins RB, Jennings E, Fava J, Marcus BH. Yoga as a complementary treatment for smoking cessation: rationale, study design and participant characteristics of the Quitting-in-Balance study. BMC Complement Altern Med. 2010 Apr 29;10:14. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-10-14.