Cigarette Smoking-Related Carcinoma, Tobacco-Related Carcinoma
Conditions
Brief summary
This trial investigates how well a smartphone-based smoking cessation program called SmartQuit works to help patients stop smoking. SmartQuit is an smartphone application-based smoking cessation program that includes a defined program consisting of interactive evidence-based exercises for dealing more effectively with urges to smoke, a place to track desired behaviors, personalized plans for quitting, and a certificate of completion once the recommended program components are completed. SmartQuit may help patients quit smoking, lower healthcare costs and reduce premature tobacco-related deaths.
Detailed description
OUTLINE: Patients use the SmartQuit program to learn and practice skill modules as often as they wish over 6 months.
Interventions
Use SmartQuit program
Ancillary studies
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Smokes at least five cigarettes daily for at least past 12 months * Wants to quit in the next 30 days * Interested in learning skills to quit smoking * Resides in United States (US) * Has at least daily access to their own smartphone * Knows how to login and download a smartphone application from their smartphone * Willing and able to read in English * Not participating in other smoking cessation interventions (including our other intervention studies) * Must be an employee of a company who is participating in recruitment * Willing to complete one follow-up survey * Provide email, phone, and mailing address
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants with 7-day cigarette smoking cessation at 2 months. | At 2 month follow-up | No smoking at all in the past 7 or more days (7-day point prevalence quit rate). |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in number of cigarettes smoked per day | At 2 month follow-up | — |
| Number of intentional 24-hour quit attempts | At 2 month follow-up | — |
| Change in readiness to quit | At 2 month follow-up | Differences in a participant's readiness to quit will be assessed by comparing their responses to the baseline survey readiness to quit questions with their responses to the 2 month follow-up survey |
| Nicotine dependence level | At 2 month follow-up | Participants will share their nicotine dependence level via survey at their 2 month follow-up |
| 24-hour point prevalence quit rate | At 2 month follow-up | — |
| Time spent on the application | At 2 month follow-up | Will be assessed via 2 month follow-up survey |
| Participant satisfaction with the application | At 2 month follow-up | Will be assessed via 2 month follow-up survey |
| Participant opinion of the usefulness of the application for quitting smoking | At 2 month follow-up | Will be assessed via 2 month follow-up survey |
| Number of times logged into the application | At 2 month follow-up | Will be assessed via 2 month follow-up survey |
Countries
United States