UW-PASS Treatments

UW-PASS: UW Partnership to Assist & Serve Smokers UW-PASS seeks to determine the optimal treatment packages for patients trying to quit smoking. The intervention will be based on the four phases of quitting: Motivation > Precessation > Pericessation > Maintenance Project 1 included various combinations of these treatments:

• Behavioral coaching
• Motivational interviewing
• Nicotine patches
• Nicotine gum

Project 2 included various combinations of these treatments:

• In-person coaching
• Phone coaching
• Pre-quit nicotine patches
• Pre-quit nicotine gum
• Pre-quit coaching

Project 3 included various combinations of these treatments:

• Extended medication
• Phone coaching
• Cognitive-adherence counseling
• Electronic monitoring and feedback
• Cell-phone prompting