Improving Quitline Support Study: Optimizing Remotely Delivered Smoking Cessation Services for Low-Income Smokers

2017-0553

This study seeks to evaluate ways to improve outcomes for low-education, uninsured or Medicaid-eligible smokers who do not successfully quit with standard telephone quit line treatment. The study will use an efficient factorial study design to evaluate four evidence-based strategies to improve follow-up care offered by the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line (WTQL) to socioeconomically disadvantaged callers who report smoking four months following initial WTQL treatment comprising a single counseling call and 2-week supply of a single nicotine replacement therapy. These strategies include: increasing the intensity of nicotine replacement medication (among those medically cleared to use such medications), increasing the intensity of WTQL counseling, helping callers enroll in an evidence-based smoking cessation texting support program (SmokefreeTXT), and offering moderate financial incentives for engagement in counseling and SmokefreeTXT.

2018-06-07

2023-08-15

2023-08-15

Completed

Early phase I

1316

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Uninsured, covered by BadgerCareWisconsin or another Medicaid program, or has no more than a high school education 2. Lives in Wisconsin 3. Age 18 or older 4. English speaking 5. Must provide a unique telephone number not already registered in the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line (WTQL) database for this study (to prevent duplicate enrollment and to ensure that only one person per household enrolls) 6. Must have completed standard WTQL treatment including at least one counseling call 2.5-18 months prior to study recruitment 7. Reported smoking at least 6 of the last 7 days at the WTQL follow-up enrollment call (2.5-18 months after completing standard WTQL treatment), with at least 5 cigarettes smoked on 1 or more days 8. Willing to set a new quit day within 2 weeks Exclusion Criteria: 1. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months at the time of study enrollment

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2023-11-21