Clinical trial NCT02932917: MapMySmoke: Smoking Cessation App With Geospatial Capture
Official title: MapMySmoke: Feasibility of a New Quit Cigarette Smoking Mobile Phone Application Using Integrated Geo-positioning Technology, and Motivational Messaging Within Primary Care Setting
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: PHASE1
Conditions: Smoking
Cigarette Smoking
Smoking, Tobacco
Lead sponsor: University of St Andrews
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Health Service, United Kingdom
First posted: 2016-10-13
Enrollment: 110
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Place-based cues can be an important trigger of smoking behavior, therefore the investigators wish to learn more about the influence of the built environment on individual smoking behavior. This is to facilitate dynamic support during the post-quit phase. MapMySmoke is a mobile phone application that enables the capture of spatial data during smoking and craving events. These data will be used to create individualized support plans via the app.

Detailed description: Investigators know that place-based cues play an important role in the triggering of smoking events, and even in relapse events. It follows that providing individual smokers with spatially explicit and temporally dynamic intervention messages may support smoking cessation attempts.

The investigators have built a mobile phone application-MayMySmoke-that allows individuals to capture each smoking event at the times and places they occur, and tag the events with qualitative metadata. The app also allows individuals to document and describe craving events. The goal of the app is first to understand an individual's smoking profile, and second to support them with dynamic text messages.

The investigators are deploying the app in a clinical setting-the United Kingdom's National Health Service, within the Fife region of Scotland. Using two feasibility studies of increasing size, the investigators are attempting first to get initial feedback on the app, and then to improve the app and deploy it across a broader community of smokers.

Though the app is targeted to smoking behavior, it is possible to extend it to include other negative health behaviors that may have a spatial component.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* National Health Service (Fife) Patients
* Self-reported tobacco smoker
* Stated intention to quit smoking
* English speaker

Exclusion Criteria:

* Mental illness
* learning difficulty

Primary outcomes:
measure: Continued use of the MapMySmoke App as Assessed by Monitoring Individual Anonymized Data Feeds on the Server
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Number of Patients Using the App Who Are Abstinent from Smoking As Assessed by Follow-up Survey
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Number of Patients Using the App Who Are Abstinent from Smoking As Assessed by Follow-up Survey
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: University of St Andrews
name: Robert S Schick, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Schick RS, Kelsey TW, Marston J, Samson K, Humphris GW. MapMySmoke: feasibility of a new quit cigarette smoking mobile phone application using integrated geo-positioning technology, and motivational messaging within a primary care setting. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2017 Jul 14;4:19. doi: 10.1186/s40814-017-0165-4. eCollection 2018.