NCT03431324

Mating-EFT Smoking Cessation Intervention

Status unknown NA Last updated 14 February 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Episodic Future Thinking about Mating Opportunities in Smoking Cessation in 270 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

1 January 2019

Primary endpoint
31 December 2020

31 December 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	East Carolina University
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	factorial
Masking	single
Primary purpose	basic science
Enrollment	270
Start date	1 January 2019
Primary completion	31 December 2020
Estimated completion	31 December 2020

Drugs / interventions tested

• Episodic Future Thinking about Mating Opportunities
• Targeted Mating-EFT Intervention

Conditions studied

• Smoking Cessation — all drugs for Smoking Cessation →
• Motivation — all drugs for Motivation →

Sponsor

East Carolina University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Smoking Cessation or Motivation. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The current proposal aims to develop and establish the effectiveness of a novel behavioral smoking cessation intervention. Previous research has shown that having smokers engage in episodic future thinking (EFT) about specific positive life outcomes that they could experience if they quit smoking immediately can be an effective means of reducing cigarette consumption. This intervention allowed participants to generate their own general positive life outcomes. While the existing intervention approaches motivation from a generalist perspective, the current proposal seeks to modify this intervention to fit within a Fundamental Social Motives (FSM) framework. The FSM framework posits that there exist individual differences in fundamental social motives such as self-protection, disease avoidance, affiliation, kin care, and mating motives such that some individuals are more motivated to work toward some of these goals than others. Specifically, the current proposal seeks to develop an EFT intervention that appeals to fundamental mating motives by asking participants to imagine positive mating outcomes that they might experience in one year's time if they were to quit smoking immediately. This will be accomplished via two empirical studies. Study 1 will compare the effectiveness of the mating-EFT intervention to the general-EFT intervention and a yoked control condition while examining the possibility that individual differences in relationship status, mating motives, self-efficacy, and nicotine dependence moderate these effects. Study 2 will employ a quasi-experimental design to test the effectiveness of this intervention using a tailored messaging approach, assigning smokers who are either single and motivated to seek new mates or involved in a committed relationship and not motivated to seek new mates to complete the general or mating-EFT or a control task. The investigators predict that the mating-EFT will be more effective than the general EFT in reducing cigarette consumption, particularly if it is administered to participants who have more active mating goals.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.