A Preoperative Contingency Management Intervention for Smoking Abstinence in Cancer Patients: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a pilot preoperative contingency management (CM) intervention for smoking abstinence.

Aims and methods

This multisite pilot study was conducted at two cancer center-based tobacco treatment programs. Participants who were smoking, diagnosed with or suspected to have any type of operable cancer, and had a surgical procedure scheduled in the next 10 days to 5 weeks (N = 40) were randomized to receive standard care plus monitoring only (MO) or CM prior to surgery. All patients received breath carbon monoxide (CO) tests 3 times per week, nicotine patches, and counseling. The CM group also earned payments for self-reported smoking abstinence confirmed by CO breath test ≤6 ppm on an escalating schedule of reinforcement (with a

SUBMITTER: Rojewski AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8248947 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature