# Mi QUIT CARE (Mile Square QUIT Community-Access-Referral-Expansion)

> **NIH NIH UG3** · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · 2021 · $1,238,035

## Abstract

Abstract
Demonstrating the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of electronically delivered smoking
cessation interventions via patient portals in Federally Qualified Health Care (FQHC) settings has the potential
for wide-spread dissemination and significant public health impact. on patient populations with demonstrated
high rates of smoking. The specific aims of are to:
UG3: Aim 1. Examine the burden of tobacco use and its influence on pulmonary health disparities (lung
cancer, COPD, and asthma) in the patient population and the economically disadvantaged and racially
segregated catchment areas of Mile Square Health Centers.
Aim 2: Evaluate knowledge, attitudes, barriers and facilitators to: smoking cessation, engagement with the
tobacco quit line, linkage to the tobacco quit line via a patient health portal and receipt of patient navigation to
facilitate access to the tobacco quit line among MSHC patients and health care providers..
Aim 3: Evaluate the use of community engagement strategies to increase uptake of the UI Health Patient
Portal among low-income patients receiving care at Mile Square Health Center.
Aim 4: Test the acceptability, feasibility, and capacity of Mile Square Health to deliver Mi Quit CARE, an
evidence-based and multi-level intervention to increase engagement with the quit line via the UI Health Portal.
UH3: Aim 1: Determine the effectiveness Mi Quit CARE compared to standard of care in increasing patient
engagement with the Illinois tobacco quitline and subsequent smoking cessation outcomes.
Aim 2: Evaluate the scalability of Mi Quit CARE to multiple sites within the UI Health FQHC Mile Square clinic
network and by translating the intervention to Spanish.
Aim 3: Examine the cost effectiveness of Mi Quit CARE on smoking cessation outcomes compared to
standard of care among a high risk FQHC population.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10254227
- **Project number:** 5UG3HL151302-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
- **Principal Investigator:** GERI R DONENBERG
- **Activity code:** UG3 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $1,238,035
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-09-10 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10254227

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10254227, Mi QUIT CARE (Mile Square QUIT Community-Access-Referral-Expansion) (5UG3HL151302-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10254227. Licensed CC0.

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