Pilot Project G: Cancer Reduction Through Combined Treatment for Tobacco and Alcohol Use
Co-Investigators
Elba Diaz, D.M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Restorative Sciences, University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
David Wetter, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Health Disparities Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
A critical strategy for oral cancer risk reduction in Puerto Rico is reducing use of alcohol and tobacco. The proposed project will evaluate the efficacy of a novel treatment approach designed to concomitantly address tobacco and alcohol use in a population-based, public health setting.
Specific Aims
- Develop and evaluate a Motivational Relapse Prevention (MRP) approach to simultaneously treating both smoking and alcohol use among smokers who call the Puerto Rico Quitline (PRQ)
- Assess MRP effects on treatment mechanisms and the role of those mechanisms in mediating MRP effects on alcohol risk behaviors