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Take A Break - Rural

Using Rural Community Paramedicine to Engage Lower-Motivated Smokers: Spreading an Effective mHealth-Assisted Intervention to Motivate Cessation

Who can join

Ages 18 and older · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Inclusion Criteria:

* Current Smoker
* at least 18 years old
* speaks English
* Able to receive texts and read text (literate)
* Have a text-enabled phone or receive one from the study team
* Not yet ready to quit smoking

Exclusion Criteria:

* actively quitting smoking
* preparing to quit smoking within 30 days
* prisoners
* FDA- defined NRT contraindications
* unable or unwilling to provide informed consent

About the study

The study team proposes a multi-level trial to test 1) novel implementation programs in rural counties designed to increase access to 2) recent advances in tobacco control services for people who are not-yet-ready-to-quit smoking. In this field, most trials have focused only on those already ready-to-quit. Thus, the proposed trial addresses an important knowledge gap critical to advance tobacco control in rural areas.

What is being tested

• Take a Break plus Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) Sampling (behavioral)
• The Comparison (behavioral)
• Community Paramedicine Standard Plus Enhanced Implementation Program (other)
• Community Paramedicine Standard Implementation Program (other)

Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Participants: 800 · Started: Jul 11, 2023

Contact the study team

• Anna M Thorpe · Phone: 336-716-3028
• Erica Hale, MS · Phone: 336-716-2236

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT05790486

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Smoking and Youth
• Quitting Smoking

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Oct 2, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.