A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives, Text Messaging, and Usual Care for Homeless Smokers

Summary

The QUIT (Quitting with Usual Care, Incentives, and Technology) Smoking Study is a 3-arm pilot randomized controlled trial that will test the effect of 2 different experimental smoking cessation interventions relative to a control condition in homeless cigarette smokers. All participants will receive free transdermal nicotine patches and weekly in-person smoking cessation counseling. In addition, participants randomized to the first experimental condition will receive financial rewards for biochemically-verified smoking abstinence, and participants randomized to the second experimental condition will be enrolled in a text messaging program to support smoking abstinence.

Timeline

Start

2015-10

Primary completion

2016-06

Completion

2016-08

Publications

• Baggett TP, McGlave C, Kruse GR, Yaqubi A, Chang Y, Rigotti NA. SmokefreeTXT for Homeless Smokers: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2019 Jun 4;7(6):e13162. doi: 10.2196/13162.
• Baggett TP, Yaqubi A, Berkowitz SA, Kalkhoran SM, McGlave C, Chang Y, Campbell EG, Rigotti NA. Subsistence difficulties are associated with more barriers to quitting and worse abstinence outcomes among homeless smokers: evidence from two studies in Boston, Massachusetts. BMC Public Health. 2018 Apr 10;18(1):463. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5375-z.
• Baggett TP, Chang Y, Yaqubi A, McGlave C, Higgins ST, Rigotti NA. Financial Incentives for Smoking Abstinence in Homeless Smokers: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. Nicotine Tob Res. 2018 Nov 15;20(12):1442-1450. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntx178.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.