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Feasibility of precision smoking treatment in a low-income community setting: results of a pilot randomized controlled trial in The Southern Community Cohort Study

  • Scott S. Lee
  • , Nicole Senft Everson
  • , Maureen Sanderson
  • , Rebecca Selove
  • , William J. Blot
  • , Stephen King
  • , Karen Gilliam
  • , Suman Kundu
  • , Mark Steinwandel
  • , Sarah J. Sternlieb
  • , Qiuyin Cai
  • , Shaneda Warren Andersen
  • , Debra L. Friedman
  • , Erin Connors Kelly
  • , Mary Kay Fadden
  • , Matthew S. Freiberg
  • , Quinn S. Wells
  • , Juan Canedo
  • , Rachel F. Tyndale
  • , Robert P. Young
  • Raewyn J. Hopkins, Hilary A. Tindle

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Abstract

Background: The feasibility of precision smoking treatment in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities has not been studied. Methods: Participants in the Southern Community Cohort Study who smoked daily were invited to join a pilot randomized controlled trial of three smoking cessation interventions: guideline-based care (GBC), GBC plus nicotine metabolism-informed care (MIC), and GBC plus counseling guided by a polygenic risk score (PRS) for lung cancer. Feasibility was assessed by rates of study enrollment, engagement, and retention, targeting > 70% for each. Using logistic regression, we also assessed whether feasibility varied by age, sex, race, income, education, and attitudes toward precision smoking treatment. Results: Of 92 eligible individuals (79.3% Black; 68.2% with household income < $15,000), 67 (72.8%; 95% CI 63.0–80.9%) enrolled and were randomized. Of these, 58 (86.6%; 95% CI 76.4–92.8%) engaged with the intervention, and of these engaged participants, 43 (74.1%; 95% CI 61.6–83.7%) were retained at 6-month follow-up. Conditional on enrollment, older age was associated with lower engagement (OR 0.83, 95% CI 0.73–0.95, p = 0.008). Conditional on engagement, retention was significantly lower in the PRS arm than in the GBC arm (OR 0.18, 95% CI 0.03–1.00, p = 0.050). No other selection effects were observed. Conclusions: Genetically informed precision smoking cessation interventions are feasible in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities, exhibiting high enrollment, engagement, and retention irrespective of race, sex, income, education, or attitudes toward precision smoking treatment. Future smoking cessation interventions in this population should take steps to engage older people and to sustain participation in interventions that include genetic risk counseling. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov No. NCT03521141, Registered 27 April 2018, https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03521141.

Original languageEnglish
Article number16
JournalAddiction Science and Clinical Practice
Volume19
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2024

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Funding

SWA acknowledges support of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. MSF acknowledges support of the Dorothy and Laurence Grossman Chair in Cardiology. HAT acknowledges support of the William Anderson Spickard, Jr, MD, Chair in Medicine and the National Cancer Institute Moonshot Initiative (P30CA068485-22S3). RFT acknowledges support of a Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Foundation Grant FDN-154294), and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute (U54CA163072-09S1 to principal investigator (PI) Harold L. Moses, sub-project 6540, PI Hilary A. Tindle; U54CA163069 to PI Samuel E. Adunyah, sub-project 6962, PI Maureen Sanderson; and U54CA163066 to PIs Baqar A. Husaini and Margaret M. Whalen, sub-project 6610, PI Rebecca Selove) and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR002243). The Southern Community Cohort Study is funded by the National Cancer Institute (R01CA92447 to PIs William J. Blot and Wei Zheng), including special allocations from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (R01CA092447-08S1). Scott S. Lee was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K12HL137943). Nicole Senft Everson was formerly with Vanderbilt University Medical Center and was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (T32HS026122). She is now employed by the National Cancer Institute. The opinions expressed by the authors are their own, and this material should not be interpreted as representing the official viewpoint of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health or the National Cancer Institute.

FundersFunder number
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Canada Research Chair in Pharmacogenomics
William Anderson Spickard
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Canadian Institutes of Health ResearchFDN-154294
Agency for Healthcare Research and QualityT32HS026122
National Childhood Cancer Registry – National Cancer InstituteU54CA163072-09S1, U54CA163066, U54CA163069
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)R01CA092447-08S1, UL1TR002243
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)K12HL137943
National Cancer Institute Moonshot InitiativeP30CA068485-22S3

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    1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
      SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

    Keywords

    • Health disparities
    • Precision medicine
    • Smoking cessation treatment

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Clinical Psychology
    • Psychiatry and Mental health

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