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. 2021 Apr 29;2021(4):CD010216. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010216.pub5

Murray 2020.

Study name Yorkshire Enhanced Stop Smoking (YESS) study: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of adding a personalized smoking cessation intervention to a lung cancer screening program
Methods RCT
Setting: Yorkshire, UK
Participants Anticipated recruitment: 1040 people who smoke tobacco cigarettes
Participants are aged 55 – 80, registered with a general practitioner (GP) in the Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group area and registered as a current or ex‐smoker in primary care databases
Inclusion criteria:
  • Attended an lung health check (LHC) and consent to participate in the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST)

  • have smoked within the last month

  • have an exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) reading ≥ 6 ppm

  • have agreed to see an SCP on the mobile unit


Exclusion criteria:
  • Any individual who does not have an LDCT scan

  • or is unable to provide informed consent

Interventions Arm 1: enhanced, personalized smoking cessation (SC) support package, including CT scan images. SC support over 4 weeks comprising behavioral support, pharmacotherapy and/or a commercially‐available e‐cigarette
Arm 2: continued standard best practice.
Outcomes Follow‐up contact will be requested at 4 weeks, 3 months and 12 months, with a 2‐week window to accommodate participant availability
The primary objective is to measure 7‐day point prevalent carbon monoxide (CO)‐validated SC after 3 months
Secondary outcomes include CO‐validated cessation at 4 weeks and 12 months, self‐reported continuous cessation at 4 weeks, 3 months and 12 months, attempts to quit smoking and changes in psychological variables, including perceived risk of lung cancer, motivation to quit smoking tobacco, confidence and efficacy beliefs (self and response) at all follow‐up points
Starting date January 2019 and December 2020 with follow‐up data collection ending December 2021
Contact information Professor Rachael L Murray; rachael.murray@nottingham. ac.uk
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