Adjunctive Mood Management for Telephone-based Smoking Cessation

Summary

Smoking is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. Interventions that increase successful quit attempts among depressed smokers with chronic medical illnesses are particularly important for the VA healthcare system because rates of tobacco use, depression, and chronic medical illnesses are significantly higher among Veterans compared to the general population. Providing smoking cessation services augmented with mood management to Veterans via telephone may increase access to, and utilization of, evidence-based smoking cessation counseling and decrease rates of smoking-related complications for Veterans with chronic medical illnesses and depression. Yet, the reach of smoking cessation telephone counseling has been limited among populations with mental illness. The investigators intend to combine the potency of co-delivered mood management and reach of telephone-delivered interventions by testing the telephone delivery of behavioral mood-management for smoking cessation among smokers with depression and chronic medical illness.

Conditions

• Nicotine Dependence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral mood management

The mood-management sessions are informed by CBT and emphasize psycho-educational and skills-based approaches to CBT. CBT has been used extensively to address mood management. Specifically, SMK-MM enhancement includes behavioral activation, cognitive restructuring (working with automatic thoughts, problem solving, and behavioral skills (i.e., activity scheduling, relaxation training/controlled breathing). The SMK-MM-enhanced participant manual will also include additional worksheets developed for the investigator's pilot based on Lewinsohn's self-help guide to controlling depression. The main objective of the worksheets will be to provide Veterans with an opportunity to gain mastery over selected behavioral and cognitive skills thought to facilitate mood management. As is customary in CBT, homework based on the worksheets will be discussed during counseling calls.

OTHER

Health education

In the contact-equivalent health education condition, participants will receive parallel smoking cessation content on the same schedule as in the MM-enhanced arm; however, health education content will supplant the MM content. The educational content will be based on the VA National Center on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention's "Health Living Messages" on such topics as being safe, eating wisely, getting recommended immunization and screening tests, and being involved with the participant's health care. Participants also will receive chronic-disease-specific self-management information.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• VA Office of Research and Development

  lead FED

Principal Investigators

• Jennifer M Gierisch, PhD MA · Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-05-31

Primary Completion

2019-04-19

Completion

2019-04-19

Countries

• United States

Study Locations