Clinical Pharmacists, Medications, and Contingency Management for Targeting Smoking in HIV Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is a lack of robust strategies to reduce cigarette smoking among people with HIV.

Objective

To identify optimal adaptive treatment strategies involving clinical pharmacist-delivered medications for tobacco use disorder and contingency management (CM) for smoking reduction among people with HIV.

Design, setting, and participants

From July 27, 2020, through March 28, 2024, using a sequential multiple-assignment randomized clinical trial, people with HIV who smoked cigarettes were recruited and randomized 1:1 to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) with or without CM (stage 1). After 12 weeks of treatment (stage 2), individuals with confirmed abstinence continued stage 1 treatment; individuals without confirmed abstinence were rerandomized to switch to ora

SUBMITTER: Edelman EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12949440 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature