Smoking
Conditions
Keywords
smoking, smoker, text, smartphone, motivation, quitting, cessation, feedback, messages
Brief summary
Smokers who are not actively engaged in quitting will participate in a study using self-generated text and audio text messages containing reasons to quit smoking.
Detailed description
Participants must have a smartphone that can accept text messages from an email address and link to a study related website to hear audio recordings, and be willing to receive a text message each weekday for two weeks between 8-9am as part of the study. After completing a phone screener, participants will complete a baseline phone survey. Within two weeks of the baseline survey, participants will come to an in-person session. At that time they will be randomized with equal probability to one of two conditions: 1) Motivational Interviewing (MI), or 2) tailored feedback on reasons for quitting. After undergoing MI or receiving tailored feedback, participants will be asked to generate message that they feel would motivate them to quit. These messages will be both text and audio. After generating and reviewing these messages, participants will then evaluate these messages before ending the laboratory session. Starting two days after their laboratory session, between 8:00am and 9:00am, staff will send participants one of the self-generated text messages with a link to also hear the message; this process will last for two weeks. Within a week of stopping sending messages, participants will be asked to complete a final phone survey to elicit smoking behaviors and provided feedback on the messaging.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMotivational Interviewing
Subjects will engage in motivational interviewing in order to generate motivating messages related to quitting smoking.
BEHAVIORALTailored Feedback
Subjects will self-generate reasons they want to quit smoking during the baseline survey and record these reasons during the in-person activity.
Sponsors
Duke University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 18 years old or older * not actively engaged in trying to quit smoking * must have smoked 100 cigarettes to date * must smoke at least 1 cigarette per day * must own smartphone capable of receiving messages from study email * must agree to receive text messages between 8-9am each weekday for 2 weeks
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number of messages generated during in-person visit | one hour |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Quality of messages | before and after completion of the trial, approximately 3 weeks | Smokers' evaluation of message (e.g., persuasiveness, accuracy/credibility, ease of generating messages). |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed