Smoke-Free Living Study

Summary

The goal of this study is to provide you with an effective treatment for reducing the physical and emotional stress that can occur during the early phase of being without cigarettes. It is our hope that this treatment will help you to stay smoke-free. You will receive counseling and a supply of Champix, a medication to help suppress the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Purpose: To assess the effect of extended Integrated Voice Response (IVR) on smoking cessation after varenicline (Champix) and IVR treatment Hypothesis: There will be significant increase in participants who do not smoke at 1 year if extended IVR is used after 12 weeks of varenicline (Champix) and IVR treatment.

Timeline

Start

2008-01

Primary completion

2011-11

Completion

2011-11

Publications

• Livingstone-Banks J, Fanshawe TR, Thomas KH, Theodoulou A, Hajizadeh A, Hartman L, Lindson N. Nicotine receptor partial agonists for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2023 May 5;5(5):CD006103. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006103.pub8.
• McNaughton B, Frohlich J, Graham A, Young QR. Extended interactive voice response telephony (IVR) for relapse prevention after smoking cessation using varenicline and IVR: a pilot study. BMC Public Health. 2013 Sep 10;13:824. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-824.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.