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Published on in Vol 15 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/97779, first published .
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Contingency Management for Veteran Smokers Undergoing Elective Major Surgery: Protocol and Rationale for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Contingency Management for Veteran Smokers Undergoing Elective Major Surgery: Protocol and Rationale for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Ellen Herbst   1, 2, 3 , MD ;   Christy Yim-Fan Wong   1, 4 , BS ;   Elliott Chaney   1 , BA ;   Theodore Fetterling   1, 3 , PhD ;   Isaac A Mirzadegan   1, 3 , PhD ;   Phiroz E Tarapore   5, 6 , MD ;   Benjamin Emmert-Aronson   1, 4 , PhD ;   Gabriela K Khazanov   7 , PhD ;   Katherine J Hoggatt   2, 4, 8 , PhD ;   Madeline Martinez Rivas   1, 4 , PhD ;   Sadaf Dabiri   1, 4 , BS ;   Jayabhargav Annam   1, 4, 9 , MD ;   Julia M Harris   1, 10 , MS (MSN, CRNA, FAANA) ;   Lauren Paver Thompson   1, 4 , BA ;   Brian Borsari   1, 2, 3, 11 , PhD

1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

2 Center for Data to Discovery and Delivery Innovation (3DI), San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, CA, United States

3 Mental Health Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, United States

4 Research Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, United States

5 Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

6 Surgical Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, United States

7 Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, United States

8 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

9 Department of Psychiatry, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, United States

10 VA Quality Scholars Advanced Fellowship Program, San Francisco VA Health Care System, San Francisco, CA, United States

11 San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States

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