83
Participants
Start Date
October 31, 2015
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2016
Study Completion Date
August 31, 2016
Transdermal nicotine patch
"* ≥10 cigarettes per day: nicotine 21mg/24hr patch daily x 6 weeks, then nicotine 14mg/24hr patch daily x 2 weeks~* \<10 cigarettes per day: nicotine 14mg/24hr patch daily x 8 weeks"
In-person smoking cessation counseling
\- One-on-one 15-minute counseling sessions once per week for 8 weeks
Contingent financial rewards for smoking abstinence
\- Escalating-value financial rewards for smoking abstinence, verified by exhaled carbon monoxide \<8ppm
Text messages to support smoking abstinence
\- 1-5 text messages per day starting up to 2 weeks before the quit date and continuing until 6 weeks after the quit date, delivered by SmokefreeTXT
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Boston
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
NIH
Massachusetts General Hospital
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