Clinical trial NCT04623736: Smartphone Application Smoking Cessation Study
Official title: Assessment of Smoking Cessation in a Publicly Available Cessation Smartphone Application
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Tobacco Use
Keywords: Tobacco use
Smoking cessation
Smartphone applications
mHealth
Lead sponsor: University of Virginia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
name: ICF International
First posted: 2020-11-10
Enrollment: 152
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: The purpose of the study is to determine if using the smartphone application quitSTART can help people quit smoking and to understand how use of specific smartphone application features when trying to quit smoking is associated with success.

Detailed description: Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. and causes multiple cancers. Approximately 34 million U.S. adults currently smoke cigarettes, but over half of all smokers attempt to quit smoking each year. However, only about 6% quit successfully, in part, because many smokers make unassisted quit attempts, due to the lack of accessibility of cessation programs. Mobile health (mHealth) smoking cessation programs delivered through smartphone applications ('apps') can potentially reach a large number of smokers in the U.S., as 81% of U.S. adult smokers own a smartphone. The National Cancer Institute hosts Smokefree.gov, a suite of free, publicly available smoking cessation resources. In addition to web based and text-messaging resources, Smokefree.gov launched the quitSTART smartphone app in 2013, which is a publicly available smoking cessation app.

Participants in this study will be asked to complete a pre-cessation assessment, then download, install, and try to quit smoking using the smoking cessation smartphone application, quitSTART. Participants will be asked to use quitSTART for 4 weeks. Participants will also be asked to complete online surveys 2 and 4 weeks after the start of the study. To understand how people are using quitSTART, the investigators will collect quitSTART usage data from all participants (for example, how often someone opens quitSTART during the study period and what specific features someone uses).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Cigarette smoker
* Smoked at least 100 cigarettes
* Able to read and speak English
* Owns a smartphone
* 18 years of age or older
* USA resident

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not a cigarette smoker
* has not smoked at least 100 cigarettes
* Not able to read and speak English
* Does not own a smartphone
* Under 18 years of age
* Not a US resident
* Currently pregnant

Primary outcomes:
measure: Self-reported 7-day smoking abstinence - 2 weeks
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: Self-reported 7-day smoking abstinence - 4 weeks
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Self-reported continuous smoking abstinence - 2 weeks
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: Self-reported continuous smoking abstinence - 4 weeks
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Charlottesville
country: United States
facility: University of Virginia
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Virginia
name: Kara P Wiseman
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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