Trial of a Harm Reduction Strategy for People With HIV Who Smoke Cigarettes
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Hiv
Tobacco Use
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
At a Glance
- Age
- 40 – 79
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Treatment
- Participants needed
- 400 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Montefiore Medical Center · Other
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About This Trial
Cigarette smoking is now the leading killer of people with HIV (PWH) in the US, and most cessation strategies tried to date have failed to increase long-term quit rates. An "all or none" approach to smoking cessation in PWH offers little benefit to the large majority of PWH who are unable or unwilling to quit. In this proposal we argue that a harm reduction approach (i.e., cut down, get screened f…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Age 40-79 (the ACC/AHA PCEs risk score is only valid in this age range).
2. Current cigarette smoking ("Yes" to: "Have you smoked more than 100 cigarettes in your lifetime?" AND "Have you smoked a cigarette, even a puff, in the past 7 days?"
3. Lab-confirmed HIV infection
4. …
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