Emily Zale
Binghamton University, NY·Psychology
Smoking is far more common among people with chronic pain, which affects more than 50 million Americans. Their smoking rates are two to four times those of the general population.
- Fields
Psychology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
smoking cessation
tobacco use
chronic pain
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2027
What they work on
- Develop and refine telehealth protocols for a pain-targeted motivational smoking intervention and a time-matched active control, using iterative feedback from three groups of smokers with chronic pain not ready to quit.
- Test the feasibility and acceptability of the pain-targeted and control interventions delivered by live telehealth in a pilot randomized controlled trial of 64 smokers with chronic pain.
- Measure motivation to make a serious quit attempt and to engage cessation treatment at baseline, post-intervention, 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months using computerized outcome measures.
More about the research
Quitting is harder for them: withdrawal is worse, relapse comes faster, and pain itself can sap motivation to try. Because quitting can improve pain and daily functioning, these smokers need interventions that address smoking and pain together.
Why it matters
Millions of smokers with chronic pain are not ready to quit and face unique barriers to treatment. A pain-targeted motivational intervention delivered by telehealth could offer a scalable, accessible and cost-effective way to reach them. This could help reduce a leading preventable cause of death in a high-risk group.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Jason D Robinson
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX·Medicine & Clinical Research
Compare quit rates after six weeks of varenicline versus dual nicotine replacement therapy (patch plus lozenge) among 2,000 Texas smokers in a virtually delivered SMART trial, confirming abstinence by breath carbon monoxide.
Rebecca Pearl
University of Florida, FL·Psychology·Early-career
Adapt a group counseling intervention originally designed for one form of health-related stigma so that it generalizes to patients with a range of visible and concealable health conditions.
Fenan Rassu
Johns Hopkins University, MD·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Measure how socioeconomic status affects use of pain psychology among patients with chronic low back pain, using a retrospective analysis of data from a multi-site trial in Baltimore and Salt Lake City.
The school
Binghamton University: 14 labs on PI Pages, $161M a year on research, 132 research doctorates a year.
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