Smokeless Tobacco Use
Conditions
Keywords
Smokeless tobacco
Brief summary
To compare the efficacy of a targeted, tailored, and highly interactive smokeless tobacco cessation website to a website with more static information that is similar to websites that can be found through a typical Internet search.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALTailored, enhanced condition
Intervention will provide a personalized, interactive tobacco cessation Web application, based on existing empirically validated smokeless tobacco cessation programs.
BEHAVIORALUsual Care
The Usual Care condition will provide access to typical smokeless tobacco cessation information and links to commonly available Web-based smokeless tobacco cessation resources.
Sponsors
Oregon Research Institute
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
14 Years to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* 14-25 years of age * Have access to the Internet * Currently using smokeless tobacco products * Currently contemplating quitting all tobacco products * Able to read and write English; and * Willing to share phone number, e-mail, and mailing address with the research project
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Abstinence from all tobacco | 3 months and 6 months |
| Abstinence from smokeless tobacco | 3 months and 6 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Evaluate the relative effectiveness of the two programs on secondary outcomes, including reduction in smokeless tobacco use, number of quit attempts, and confidence in quitting. | 3 months and 6 months |
| Identify participant characteristics, including demographic characteristics, initial smokeless tobacco use and dependence, and patterns of program use that predict treatment outcomes. | 3 months and 6 months |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed