My Path to Quit Tobacco
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Where
- Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Phoenix, and Richmond, United StatesSee the 5 sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- Phase
- Phase 4
- People taking part
- 1,550 people, planned
- Started
- 6 Jul 2026
- Expected to end
- Jan 2030
- Type of study
- Interventional, 3 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Nicotine patch
- Quitline Counseling Phone Calls
- Counseling Sessions
- Pathways to Freedom
- Monetary Incentive
- Record updated
- 10 November 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 21 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Can take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- self-identify as Black
- smoke cigarettes (greater than or equal to 1 cigarette on greater than or equal to 4 days/week)
- motivated to quit smoking
- willing to discontinue any non-study smoking cessation pharmacotherapy use during study treatment
Who cannot take part
- currently taking bupropion for non-smoking cessation reasons
Where in United States
- Indiana UniversityIndianapolis, United StatesContact: Megan Piper, PhDNot yet recruiting
- University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, IncKansas City, United StatesContact: Megan Piper, PhDNot yet recruiting
- UW School of Medicine and Public HealthMilwaukee, United StatesContact: Megan Piper, PhDTaking people
- Arizona State UniversityPhoenix, United StatesContact: Megan Piper, PhDNot yet recruiting
- Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, United StatesContact: Megan Piper, PhDNot yet recruiting
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The overarching goal of this program of research is to reduce smoking-related health disparities by increasing smoking cessation among Black adults. The goal of this research proposal is to determine whether more intensive, culturally specific, evidence-based interventions are more effective at promoting long-term cessation and other key patient-centered outcomes compared to the usual evidence-based standard of care: services provided by a state-run quitline. This study compares the relative effectiveness of three different treatments (Standard, Intensive, and Intensive Incentivized) on long-term smoking cessation (biochemically confirmed abstinence from combusted tobacco at 26-weeks post-target quit day) among Black adults who smoke and want to quit.
The 3 groups in the trial
- Standard InterventionExisting treatment, for comparison
The Standard Intervention will include 2 weeks of nicotine patches + 4 quitline-style counseling phone calls.
Treatment: Nicotine patch and Quitline Counseling Phone Calls
- Intensive InterventionTreatment being tested
The Intensive Intervention will include 8 weeks of nicotine patches (if eligible) + 8 counseling sessions (choice of individual phone or virtual group) + the Pathways to Freedom video content on the study website with additional smoking cessation content.
Treatment: Nicotine patch, Counseling Sessions, and Pathways to Freedom
- Intensive Incentivized InterventionTreatment being tested
The Intensive Incentivized Intervention will include all components provided in the Intensive intervention (8 weeks of nicotine patches (if eligible) + 8 counseling sessions (choice of individual phone or virtual group) + the Pathways to Freedom video content on the study website with additional smoking cessation content) and up to $50 for completing counseling sessions ($5 for completing sessions 1-6 and $10 for completing sessions 7 and 8)
Treatment: Nicotine patch, Counseling Sessions, Pathways to Freedom, and Monetary Incentive
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Comparing Three Multicomponent Interventions to Help Adults Quit Smoking
- Record updated
- 10 November 2026