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Remote Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Cardiac Patients
Sponsor: University of Vermont Medical Center
Summary
The investigators are proposing to examine new strategies for helping patients hospitalized for an acute coronary event adhere to recommendations to quit smoking. The investigators are interested to see whether offering financial incentives for smoking cessation, combined with medications to ameliorate withdrawal, can significantly reduce smoking in a population for which continued smoking has disproportionately negative health effects. The proposed trial can provide significant knowledge for promoting adherence to smoking cessation guidelines in patients with cardiac disease
Official title: Remote Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Cardiac Patients: Bridging the Post-discharge
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
50
Start Date
2022-08-12
Completion Date
2025-12
Last Updated
2025-01-20
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Financial Incentives (FI) and Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)
: In the intervention condition, patients will receive both NRT plus a 12-week program of monetary incentives for verified smoking abstinence that will be implemented by our clinic staff
Locations (1)
University of Vermont Medical Center
Burlington, Vermont, United States