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Original Research

A Randomized Trial of Concurrent Smoking-Cessation and Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Stimulant-Dependent Smokers

Theresa M. Winhusen, PhD; Gregory S. Brigham, PhD; Frankie Kropp, MS; Robert Lindblad, MD; John G. Gardin II, PhD; Pat Penn, PhD; Candace Hodgkins, PhD; Thomas M. Kelly, PhD; Antoine Douaihy, MD; Michael McCann, MA; Lee D. Love, MA; Eliot DeGravelles, MD; Ken Bachrach, PhD; Susan C. Sonne, PharmD; Bob Hiott, MEd; Louise Haynes, MSW; Gaurav Sharma, PhD; Daniel F. Lewis, BA; Paul VanVeldhuisen, PhD; Jeff Theobald, BS; and Udi Ghitza, PhD

Published: December 10, 2013

Article Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the impact of concurrent treatments for substance use disorder and nicotine-dependence for stimulant-dependent patients.

Method: A randomized, 10-week trial with follow-up at 3 and 6 months after smoking quit date conducted at 12 substance use disorder treatment programs between February 2010 and July 2012. Adults meeting DSM-IV-TR criteria for cocaine and/or methamphetamine dependence and interested in quitting smoking were randomized to treatment as usual (n = 271) or treatment as usual with smoking-cessation treatment (n = 267). All participants received treatment as usual for substance use disorder treatment. Participants assigned to treatment as usual with concurrent smoking-cessation treatment received weekly individual smoking cessation counseling and extended-release bupropion (300 mg/d) during weeks 1-10. During post-quit treatment (weeks 4-10), participants assigned to treatment as usual with smoking-cessation treatment received a nicotine inhaler and contingency management for smoking abstinence. Weekly proportion of stimulant-abstinent participants during the treatment phase, as assessed by urine drug screens and self-report, was the primary outcome. Secondary measures included other substance/nicotine use outcomes and treatment attendance.

Results: There were no significant treatment effects on stimulant-use outcomes, as measured by the primary outcome and stimulant-free days, on drug-abstinence, or on attendance. Participants assigned to treatment as usual with smoking-cessation treatment, relative to those assigned to treatment as usual, had significantly better outcomes for drug-free days at 6-month follow-up (χ21 = 4.09, P < .05), with a decrease in drug-free days from baseline of −1.3% in treatment as usual with smoking-cessation treatment and of −7.6% in treatment as usual. Participants receiving treatment as usual with smoking-cessation treatment, relative to those receiving treatment as usual, had significantly better outcomes on smoking point-prevalence abstinence (25.5% vs 2.2%; χ21 = 44.69, P < .001; OR = 18.2).

Conclusions: These results suggest that providing smoking-cessation treatment to illicit stimulant-dependent patients in outpatient substance use disorder treatment will not worsen, and may enhance, abstinence from nonnicotine substance use.

Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01077024

J Clin Psychiatry

Submitted: March 1, 2013; accepted July 15, 2013.

Online ahead of print: December 10, 2013 (doi:10.4088/JCP.13m08449).

Corresponding author: Theresa M. Winhusen, PhD, University of Cincinnati, 3210 Jefferson Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220 ([email protected]).

Volume: 74

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