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A Needs Survey of Urban Day Shelter Users and Preliminary Evaluation of a Tobacco Harm Reduction Intervention: The Exchange Project 

Overview

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This study is currently enrolling Oklahoma Homeless Alliance Shelter guests who smoke combustible cigarettes. The Alliance Shelter guests will be asked to switch from combustible cigarettes to e-cigarettes and offered financial incentives for combustible cigarette abstinence.

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Switching from combustible cigarettes to e-cigarette use may be a practical harm reduction strategy for vulnerable groups with a high smoking prevalence and low likelihood of cessation. The combination of offering financial incentives to incentivize combustible cigarette abstinence, while offering e-cigarettes as an alternative is a novel and potentially powerful harm reduction approach that may lead to reduced cigarette consumption. 

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Sponsored by the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust/Health Promotion Research Center, The University of Oklahoma (Institutional)

2019- 2022

Kendzor, D. E. (Principal Investigator), Alexander, A. C. (Co-Investigator)

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