QuLIT – The Quit smoking Lung health Intervention Trial.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
QuLIT – The Quit smoking Lung health Intervention Trial.
IRAS ID
236191
Contact name
Nicholas Hopkinson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Imperial College
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Smoking is a major cause of ill health including lung disease, health disease and cancer. It is important that the NHS makes use of the best approaches to help people to stop smoking. People with a history of smoking are now being offered screening by CT scan in order to detect early lung cancer so these can be treated and cured.
This screening program is also an opportunity to help people to quit smoking. The usual approach would be to direct individuals to NHS or local authority smoking cessation services. We want to see if a more intense approach, where smokers can see a smoking cessation counsellor immediately is more effective.
The counsellor will be available on half the days that the screening study is running. We will compare the outcomes on the different days by looking at smoking rates three months later.
We aim to compare at least 110 smokers going through the screening programme who wish to quit.REC name
South Central - Oxford C Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/SC/0236
Date of REC Opinion
1 May 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion