Clinical trial NCT01812278: Randomized Trial of Web-Delivered Acceptance Therapy for Smoking Cessation (WebQuit)
Official title: Randomized Trial of Web-Delivered Acceptance Therapy for Smoking Cessation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smoking
Lead sponsor: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Kaiser Permanente
name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
First posted: 2013-03-18
Enrollment: 2637
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 99
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The goal of this study is to determine whether the ACT website provides higher quit rates than a current standard smoking cessation website.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* age 18 or older
* smokes at least five cigarettes daily for at least past 12 months
* wants to quit in next 30 days
* willing to be randomly assigned to either group
* resides in US
* has at least weekly access to a high speed Internet connection and email
* willing and able to read in English
* not participating in other smoking cessation interventions (including our other intervention studies
* has never used the Smokefree.gov website
* willing to complete all three follow-up surveys
* provide email, phone, and mailing address
* provide contact information for two collaterals (e.g., relatives).
* does not have family, friends, or other household members participating

Exclusion Criteria:

* The exclusion criteria are the opposite of the inclusion criteria above.

Primary outcomes:
measure: 30-day point prevalence abstinence
timeFrame: 12 month post randomization
Secondary outcomes:
measure: 7-day, 24-hour, and 30-day point prevalence quit rates
timeFrame: 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months post treatment
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Seattle
country: United States
facility: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
state: Washington
Study officials:
affiliation: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
name: Jonathan Bricker
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Jackson S, Brown J, Norris E, Livingstone-Banks J, Hayes E, Lindson N. Mindfulness for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2022 Apr 14;4(4):CD013696. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013696.pub2.
citation: Watson NL, Heffner JL, Mull KE, McClure JB, Bricker JB. Comparing Treatment Acceptability and 12-Month Cessation Rates in Response to Web-Based Smoking Interventions Among Smokers Who Do and Do Not Screen Positive for Affective Disorders: Secondary Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2019 Jun 19;21(6):e13500. doi: 10.2196/13500.
citation: Watson NL, Mull KE, Heffner JL, McClure JB, Bricker JB. Participant Recruitment and Retention in Remote eHealth Intervention Trials: Methods and Lessons Learned From a Large Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Web-Based Smoking Interventions. J Med Internet Res. 2018 Aug 24;20(8):e10351. doi: 10.2196/10351.
citation: Bricker JB, Sridharan V, Zhu Y, Mull KE, Heffner JL, Watson NL, McClure JB, Di C. Trajectories of 12-Month Usage Patterns for Two Smoking Cessation Websites: Exploring How Users Engage Over Time. J Med Internet Res. 2018 Apr 20;20(4):e10143. doi: 10.2196/10143.