About this trial
The purpose of this research study is to learn more about how Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Skills Training can help patients with cancer who smoke cigarettes cut down on or stop their smoking.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Smoke ≥1 cigarettes every day in the past 30 days per participant report.
Smoked at least 100 cigarettes (5 packs) in lifetime.
Confirmation of cancer diagnosis at any time.
Patient encounter with an AHWFBCCC provider within the last two years.
Disqualifiers
Patients actively receiving external tobacco use counseling or using tobacco cessation medications.
Prior experience with more than five sessions of DBT-ST.
Medical or psychiatric conditions limiting compliance with study requirements including suspected or reported cognitive impairment.
Self-reported use of any psychoactive substance [except marijuana and nicotine] within the last 30 days.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy -Skill Training brief intervention
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Lead sponsor
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Collaborator
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborator