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Feasibility Study Incorporating Music Therapy to Optimise the Smoking Cessation Process Coordinated by a Tobacco Addiction Nurse in Smoking Patients Being Treated for Cancer

Feasibility Study Incorporating Music Therapy to Optimise the Smoking Cessation Process Coordinated by a Tobacco Addiction Nurse in Smoking Patients Being Treated for Cancer

Recruiting
18 years and older
All
Phase N/A

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Overview

The innovative nature of this project lies in the combination of three types of intervention: tobacco addiction treatment, music therapy and therapeutic education.

Three disciplines that work together.

  1. Tobacco addiction treatment: reducing consumption, quitting,
  2. Music therapy: acting on emotions and reward circuits,
  3. Therapeutic education: promoting independent healthy practices. Patients learn to use the soundtrack independently to help them manage withdrawal symptoms caused by reducing or stopping tobacco consumption.

In this programme, patients play an active role on several levels:

  • working with the music therapist to create a personalised 'soundtrack';
  • identifying situations in which music can help them manage withdrawal symptoms;
  • using music independently in their everyday lives. The music therapy protocol will be proposed in this study, the soundtrack is co-created by the music therapist and the patient based on the patient's musical tastes and needs. The fact that the patient can use the musical tool independently also gives them significant leverage in their withdrawal process, allowing them to act on withdrawal symptoms and the main factors contributing to relapse.

Description

Music therapy could address the three elements mentioned above:

  • add a practitioner other than the tobacco specialist,
  • increase the patient's perception of self-efficacy,
  • provide the patient with a personalised soundtrack that may have an effect on withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking cessation.

Music therapy could increase the chances of successful cessation. It therefore seems innovative to offer an educational intervention combining the tobacco specialist nurse and the music therapist, which would enable patients to use a musical tool co-developed with the music therapist independently at home. There are no data on the learning and use of such a tool to reinforce self-efficacy in managing smoking cessation. The analysis of the existing literature is poor in terms of music therapy and addiction and virtually non-existent in terms of tobacco addiction.

The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of an intervention combining tobacco addiction treatment and music therapy and its impact on smoking cessation symptoms in patients with cancer who smoke.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients over the age of 18
  2. Patients with tobacco-related or non-tobacco-related cancer (excluding blood cancer)
  3. Patients who smoke daily
  4. Patients wishing to begin a smoking cessation programme
  5. Patients with a prognosis of \> 1 year
  6. Patients who have given their informed, written and express consent
  7. Patients affiliated with a French social security scheme

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with uncorrected hearing loss
  2. Patients with unstable psychiatric conditions
  3. Patients for whom regular follow-up is impossible for psychological, family, social or geographical reasons
  4. Patients under guardianship, curatorship or judicial protection

Study details
    Cancer (With or Without Metastasis)

NCT07198971

Institut du Cancer de Montpellier - Val d'Aurelle

13 May 2026

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