TTURC
2: Tobacco Dependence, Treatment and Outcomes
(2005-2009)
Research
Project 3
Pharmacotherapies: Effectiveness in Primary Care Systems
This project addresses the effectiveness of cessation medications offered in real-world
primary care settings. It also assesses patients’ willingness to participate
in cessation treatment, and evaluates treatment recruitment and delivery
strategies. Primary care patients who present for a regular outpatient
visit will be recruited by medical assistants to participate in a free
smoking-cessation program. They'll be randomly assigned to the same
five active pharmacotherapies evaluated in Project 1.
Interested patients
who pass medical screening pick up their medications at clinic
pharmacies and receive proactive telephone counseling from the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line.
Researchers assess individual differences to validate treatment algorithms developed in Project 1. They'll also estimate the costs
of incorporating tobacco-dependence treatment into primary care.
Smoking status is followed for one year, and health
care utilization is tracked for three years as part of Project
4. Thus, Project 3 will reveal the relative effectiveness of five different
pharmacotherapies in real-world primary care settings, the utility of
an algorithm for assigning pharmacotherapies based on individual differences,
and the cost-effectiveness and success of this treatment recruitment
and delivery strategy.
Research
Project 1: Pharmacotherapies: Efficacy, Mechanisms and Algorithms
Research
Project 2: Natural History of Smoking and Quitting: Long-term Outcomes
Research
Project 4: Healthcare Costs and Utilization of Smoking and Quitting
More
Information
Understanding and Preventing
Relapse, TTURC 1 (1999-2004)
Tobacco
Dependence: Treatment and Outcomes, TTURC 2 (2004-2009)
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