Website Smoking Cessation Intervention for the Promotion of Smoking Cessation in Low-Income Veterans
Condition: Cigarette Smoking-Related Carcinoma
Intervention: Smoking Cessation Intervention (New website); Smoking Cessation Intervention (Standard of care website); Health Education; Health Promotion and Education; Questionnaire Administration
Intervention description: Complete the new website smoking cessation program; Complete the standard of care website smoking cessation intervention; Receive information about the cost of smoking, benefits of quitting, ways to prepare for quitting, ways to handle triggers and withdrawal symptoms, and available medications to help with quitting. And will receive additional resources available at the VA handout via email at the end of the study.; Receive motivational and reminder text messages; Ancillary studies
Phase: Phase 1
Study type: Interventional
Primary purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Enrollment: 53.0
Sex: All
Minimum age: 18 Years
Healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Summary:

      This phase I trial studies how well a new electronic (e)-health smoking cessation program
      (called Vet Flexiquit) works in promoting smoking cessation in low-income veterans who may or
      may not be ready to quit smoking. The study will compare the new website smoking cessation
      program to the current standard care website smoking cessation program offered by the
      Veterans Administration (VA). Both website interventions will be accompanied by a text
      messaging program that includes: (1) motivational messages, and (2) reminders to use the
      assigned program. Both of the website interventions can help smokers quit or cut back on how
      much they smoke, thus dramatically reducing their chances of developing tobacco-related
      health conditions.
    

Eligibility criteria:

        Inclusion Criteria:

          -  Participants must be a US veteran

          -  Participants must be low-income, as defined by falling below Veterans Health
             Administration (VHA) national income threshold for no-cost healthcare

          -  Participants must be a current smoker, averaging at least 5 cigarettes/day for the
             last 30 days

          -  Participants must have weekly internet access for the next 3 months

          -  Participants must self-report current use of a personal email address to receive the
             link to their assigned web site

          -  Participants must self-report being willing to complete all study activities

          -  Participants must be willing to receive study-related text messages

        Exclusion Criteria:

          -  Currently taking part in any other smoking cessation treatment such as the nicotine
             patch, nicotine gum, Zyban, in-person counseling, telephone counseling, using a
             web-based or app-based cessation program

          -  Have recent (past 30 days) substance use disorder, suicidal ideation, or psychiatric
             hospitalization

          -  Previous participation in the treatment development stage of the new smoking cessation
             website program

          -  Prior use of the SmokefreeVET web site

          -  Member of the same household as another research participant

          -  Woman who is pregnant or breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant