Clinical trial NCT01096108: Quit and Win Contests to Improve Smoking Cessation Among College Students
Official title: Enhancing Quit and Win Contests to Improve Smoking Cessation Among College Students
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Tobacco Use Cessation
Keywords: Smoking cessation
Quit smoking
Quit & Win
Lead sponsor: University of Minnesota
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
First posted: 2010-03-30
Enrollment: 1318
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP

Brief summary: Standard Quit and Win contests, in which smokers typically quit for one month in return for the opportunity to win prizes, are simple and easy to implement and may be cost-effective in encouraging smokers to quit. By extending contest length and enhancing counseling content, Quit and Win contests may be more effective at encouraging smoking abstinence.

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of extended and content-enhanced Quit and Win contests to enhance smoking abstinence at college campuses.

Detailed description: Participants will be randomized to 1 of 4 treatment groups with varying counseling treatments and contest lengths. All participants receive a 2 week supply of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and weekly support emails. Follow-up assessment surveys occur at 1, 3, 4 and 6 months post enrollment.

Participants who have completed the follow-up assessment surveys and self-reported that they are tobacco-free will be asked to provide a urine sample in order to verify abstinence.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Enrolled full or part-time at one of the participating campuses
* Smoke at least 10 days per month
* Intending to be in school for the entire academic year (i.e., next 2 semesters)
* Willing to provide a baseline urine sample to verify smoking status
* Able to read English
* Access to working telephone for phone-based counseling and surveys
* Access to a computer with internet access
* Provide written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Prior to concurrent enrollment in this study through a different college campus or in a different academic year
* those who have used a cessation aid within the last 7 days
* pregnant or planning to become pregnant in next 3 months

Primary outcomes:
measure: Efficacy of extended versus standard quit and win contests
timeFrame: 6 Months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Efficacy of motivational and problem solving counseling versus no counseling
timeFrame: 6 Months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
name: Janet L Thomas, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Thomas JL, Bengtson JE, Wang Q, Luo X, Marigi E, Ghidei W, Ahluwalia JS. Abstinence rates among college cigarette smokers enrolled in a randomized clinical trial evaluating Quit and Win contests: The impact of concurrent hookah use. Prev Med. 2015 Jul;76:20-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.03.010. Epub 2015 Mar 13.