Conditions: Cigarette Smoking
Keywords: cigarette smoking tobacco use cessation products
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 40
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
This study is a randomized-controlled clinical trial which evaluates the efficacy of physician brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy and a 6-week course of text messaging in promoting cigarette smoking in smokers enrolled in college.

The primary hypothesis is that smokers receiving physician brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy, and text messaging will have higher quit rates that smokers receiving physician brief advice and nicotine replacement therapy alone.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Smoking counseling, nicotine patch, text messaging arm 2: Smoking counseling, nicotine patch

Interventions: intervention 1: Smoking counseling intervention 2: Text messaging intervention 3: Nicotine patch
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None intervention 3: None

Protocol document: