Comparative effectiveness of motivation phase intervention components for use with smokers unwilling to quit: a factorial screening experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To screen promising intervention components designed to reduce smoking and promote abstinence in smokers initially unwilling to quit.

Design

A balanced, four-factor, randomized factorial experiment.

Setting

Eleven primary care clinics in southern Wisconsin, USA.

Participants

A total of 517 adult smokers (63.4% women, 91.1% white) recruited during primary care visits who were willing to reduce their smoking but not quit.

Interventions

Four factors contrasted intervention components designed to reduce smoking and promote abstinence: (1) nicotine patch versus none; (2) nicotine gum versus none; (3) motivational interviewing (MI) versus none; and (4) behavioral reduction counseling (BR) versus none. Participants could request cessation treatment at any

SUBMITTER: Cook JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4681585 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature