Conditions: Smokers
Keywords: African american smokers smoking cessation African American smokers
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 72
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
Little is known about the support needed to improve compliance with Chantix for smoking cessation. This is a two arm pilot study of African American smokers to provide varying levels of side effect management and compliance support during a 12 week treatment period. The primary aim of the study is to estimate the effect of induction support compared to standard care in increasing compliance with Chantix at month 3

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Chantix for 3 months and Standard Counseling arm 2: Chantix for 3 months and Adherence Counseling

Interventions: intervention 1: Chantix intervention 2: Adherence Counseling intervention 3: Standard Counseling
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Chantix 0.5 mg once daily on days 1-3, 0.5 mg twice daily on days 4-7, and 1 mg twice daily on day 8 through end of treatment at month 3 intervention 2: Induction Support counseling on days 8, 12, 20 and months 1 and 2. Adherence counseling based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model of adherence behavioral change. intervention 3: Visit with counselor on Day 8 to develop a plan to quit smoking. Discuss strategies to quit, risks of continued smoking and discuss strategies for coping with withdrawal and craving.

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