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Integrating Financial Coaching and Smoking Cessation Coaching

Integrating Financial Coaching and Smoking Cessation Coaching for People With Low Income Who Smoke: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Who can join

Ages 18 to 100 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* age ≥18 years,
* smokes ≥5 cigarettes per day,
* interested in receiving smoking and financial counseling,
* self-reported income below 200% of the current federal poverty level,
* New York City resident,
* speaks English or Spanish language (the interventions and measures have not been validated in other languages),
* able to provide informed consent, and
* does not have a representative who manages his/her funds.

Exclusion Criteria

* people who know a current past study participant (to avoid intervention contamination)
* People who have a medical contraindication to using nicotine replacement therapy:
* allergy to nicotine patch
* pregnancy or intention to become pregnant over the next 12 months
* breastfeeding
* heart attack in the past 2 months
* underlying arrhythmia
* ongoing or worsening angina.

About the study

This study conduct a two-arm, parallel-group randomized controlled trial. The study will recruit and randomize 900 smokers (n=450 per arm) to either: (1) Control: Standard Smoking Cessation Counseling or (2) Intervention: Integrated Financial-Smoking Cessation Counseling.

What is being tested

• Financial counseling (other)
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy Agent - Patches (drug)
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy Agent - Lozenges (drug)
• Nicotine Replacement Therapy Agent - Gum (drug)

Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Participants: 602 · Started: Dec 8, 2022

Contact the study team

• Erin Rogers, DrPH · Phone: 646-501-2544

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05154669

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Smoking and Youth

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.