Smoking Cessation in Patients With Cancer
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Nguyen Duc Khoa, MD, PhD
- Where
- Vietnam1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 446 people, planned
- Started
- 20 Oct 2026
- Expected to end
- 15 Jul 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Standardized Brief Smoking-Cessation Counseling
- Add-on One-Session Structured CBT-Based Smoking-Cessation Counseling
- Record updated
- 26 October 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Aged 18 years or older
- Diagnosed with cancer
- Was smoking combustible cigarettes at the time of cancer diagnosis
- Still smoking combustible cigarettes at screening/enrollment
- Able to communicate sufficiently and provide reliable study information
- Provides written informed consent
Who cannot take part
- Concurrent use of tobacco/nicotine products other than combustible cigarettes (e-cigarette, heated tobacco product, waterpipe/shisha, cigar, pipe, smokeless tobacco, etc.). Outside therapeutic NRT/cessation medications are not an exclusion
- Clinically too severe for reliable participation
- Cognitive/communication limitations precluding consent or reliable participation
- Currently participating in a competing structured smoking-cessation program
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This randomized controlled trial will evaluate whether adding one-session structured cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based smoking-cessation counseling to standardized brief smoking-cessation counseling improves cigarette smoking abstinence among patients with cancer who smoked combustible cigarettes at diagnosis and are still smoking at screening and enrollment. After written informed consent and baseline assessment, all participants will receive the same standardized brief smoking-cessation counseling using a condensed 5A framework. Participants will then be randomly assigned 1:1 to no additional study CBT or to one additional structured CBT-based smoking-cessation session. Follow-up will continue for 3 months after randomization at Campus 3 of Vietnam National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Standardized Brief Smoking-Cessation Counseling AloneExisting treatment, for comparison
Before randomization, all participants receive the same individual face-to-face standardized brief smoking-cessation counseling session lasting approximately 3-5 minutes using a condensed 5A framework. After randomization, participants allocated to the control arm receive no additional study CBT. Study outcome follow-up is identical in both arms.
Treatment: Standardized Brief Smoking-Cessation Counseling
- Standardized Brief Smoking-Cessation Counseling Plus Structured CBTTreatment being tested
Before randomization, all participants receive the same standardized brief 5A smoking-cessation counseling. After randomization, participants allocated to the intervention arm are offered one additional individual structured CBT-based smoking-cessation counseling session lasting approximately 20-30 minutes. Declining CBT after randomization does not change randomized assignment; follow-up continues if the participant agrees.
Treatment: Standardized Brief Smoking-Cessation Counseling and Add-on One-Session Structured CBT-Based Smoking-Cessation Counseling
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
- Effectiveness of a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention Among Patients With Cancer at a Hospital in Vietnam
- Record updated
- 26 October 2026