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PA+ Smoking Cessation (LMPA) for Sedentary Lifestyle

Phase 1
Waitlist Available
Led By Uma S Nair, PhD
Research Sponsored by Temple University
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be between 18 and 65 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 7 days prior to 1week and 1 month follow up assessments
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Study Summary

The study's primary aim is to test the hypothesis that an intervention that integrates low to moderate physical activity (walking) with evidence-based smoking cessation counseling (LMPA) will result is greater reductions in quit-day reactivity to smoking cues (a behavioral predictor of smoking relapse) as compared to standard care smoking cessation counseling (control group) in a sample of low-income sedentary male and female smokers. The study will also test the hypothesis that the participants randomized to the LMPA intervention will have greater quit rates at one-week and one-month post quit day follow ups.

Eligible Conditions
  • Sedentary Lifestyle
  • Smoking/Cigarette Smoking

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~7 days prior to 1week and 1 month follow up assessments
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 7 days prior to 1week and 1 month follow up assessments for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Smoking Cue Reactivity on Quit Day
Secondary outcome measures
Quit rates at follow ups

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Group I: PA+ Smoking Cessation (LMPA)Experimental Treatment1 Intervention
This intervention integrates low-to-moderate physical activity (PA) with evidence based smoking cessation programming. Over the 4-week treatment period, the intervention (1 in-person and 3 phone counseling sessions) focuses on (a) gradually increasing routine PA during the pre-quit period and maintaining PA post quit day (b) increasing daily PA (steps/day) using a weekly tailored algorithm with the goal of achieving 10,000 steps by Week 4 (quit day) and (c) training participants to use PA as a primary urge management strategy, thereby embedding PA within evidence-based smoking cessation counseling. Other components include additional smoking urge management skills, increasing motivation to quit, overcoming barriers and maintaining PA for quitting and staying smoke-free .
Group II: Standard Care Smoking Counseling (SCC)Active Control1 Intervention
The control intervention parallels the format of the LMPA intervention with focus only on behavioral and cognitive urge management strategies (avoiding/escaping high-risk situations, stimulus control) and minimizing the probability that participants in the control group would increase increase/use PA during the intervention period. Participants are provided a pedometer without any instructions or encouragement around increasing walking/steps during the 8-week intervention period.

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Logistics

Participation is compensated

You will be compensated for participating in this trial.

Who is running the clinical trial?

Temple UniversityLead Sponsor
296 Previous Clinical Trials
82,705 Total Patients Enrolled
Uma S Nair, PhDPrincipal InvestigatorTemple University

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Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Step-up to Quit: Using Low-to-moderate Intensity Exercise for Reducing Smoking Cue Reactivity Among Low-income Smokers
2013. "Step-up to Quit: Using Low-to-moderate Intensity Exercise for Reducing Smoking Cue Reactivity Among Low-income Smokers". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02220465.
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