You and Your New Baby - Make both of your lives smoke free!
Are you ready to stop smoking but not sure how? The Smoke Free Futures Program can help you.
Brigham and Women's Hospital is conducting a research study for women who smoke (even just a little!) to help them quit right after their baby is born. Women who are eligible for the study may receive 8 weeks of an FDA-approved medication and counseling to help them quit. These services are at no cost.
Please call 617-732-5500 x-30246 for more information.
Would you like to participate in a research study at
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School looking
at the effects of smoking on the heart and blood vessels?
Adults between 21 and 50 years of age with at least a 5 year history
of 1 pack-per-day or more of cigarette smoking are being sought
for a short term study using Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
scanning to see how smoking affects the cardiovascular system.
The study involves a short screening visit and 2 visits for scans
each lasting 5 hours or less. You will not benefit from taking
part in this study. Others with heart disease may benefit in the
future from what we learn in this study. Parking for each visit
will be provided and participants will receive $450 for completion
of the study. Contact: 617-643-1526 or aespooner@partners.org.
Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention Research Study
Do you want to quit smoking once and for all?
Have you been smoking 10 or more cigarettes a day for the past
6 months?
If you are a female between the ages of 18 and 65, you may be
eligible to participate in our research study at no cost to you.
The study involves an 8-week smoking cessation phase, where you
will be given free nicotine patches to help you quit smoking.
If you are able to successfully quit smoking after 7 weeks of
nicotine replacement therapy (i.e. the patch), you will enter
into the 5-week relapse prevention phase of the study where you
will stop using the patch, and you will be randomly assigned to
receive an investigational drug that may be an effective treatment
in helping prevent recently quit smokers from relapsing or placebo
(i.e. inactive medication).
Study participation involves weekly or biweekly visits to our
clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital and the completion of
computerized and behavioral tasks at three points throughout the
15-week study. Additional compensation will be provided.
If interested, please call 617-724-8472 or email Lauren at lbfisher@partners.org.
All inquiries are completely confidential.
IRB #2006-P-000031
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