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Implementation of Tobacco Cessation Programming at Community Behavioral Health Sites

Enhancing the Implementation of Tobacco Treatment: A Community-responsive Approach

Who can join

Ages 18 to 26 · All sexes

Inclusion Criteria:

* Identify as someone who currently smokes combustible cigarettes (at least 1 cigarette per day) on each day for the past month
* Report interest in quitting cigarettes (at least 6/10 scale in interest of quitting)
* Age 18 or older, ability to understand the English language, willing and able to provide informed consent
* Stable residence and contact information throughout the follow up period

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-daily or intermittent cigarette use
* No interest in quitting smoking
* Unstable residence/not staying in Chicago for duration of study period
* Current untreated severe substance use disorder (with the exception of tobacco use) or past-year serious untreated psychiatric illness (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, unspecified psychosis, past-year suicide attempt)

About the study

The goal of this study is to: partner with Respiratory Health Association and determine barriers and unmet smoking cessation treatment needs from leaders in behavioral health organizations, treatment programs and adults who smoke (AWS) in Chicago. This will be accomplished by establishing a community advisory board (CAB) and pilot testing a community-informed smoking cessation treatment within a community behavioral health organization to determine its feasibility after addressing implementation issues.

What is being tested

• Enhanced Courage to Quit (behavioral)

Sponsor: University of Chicago · Participants: 24 · Started: Jul 20, 2026

Contact the study team

• Emma Brett, PhD · Phone: 773-834-5341

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06837220

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Quitting Smoking (Tobacco Use Disorder)
• Quitting Smoking
• Smoking and Youth
• Tobacco Use Cessation
• Drug Use and Addiction

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