Intervention to Increase Intention to Change Alcohol/Tobacco Use in Veterans With Chronic Disease

A behavior-change model informed mailed informational packet with tailored health information regarding the impacts of smoking/drinking on chronic disease and the benefits of stopping, followed by a brief motivational telephone booster call from a behavioral health provider.

All Veterans involved in this study will have a standard primary care (PC) appointment, which may include conversations/interventions related to drinking and smoking. This appointment is not controlled by the study team and we cannot comment on the extent to which smoking/drinking will or will not be discussed in the primary care appointment but we imagine this can range from no discussion/intervention at all to extensive conversations with the provision of medications, brief advice, etc.