Conditions: Smoking Cessation Smoking Nicotine Dependence
Keywords: Smoking Cessation Smoking Nicotine
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 30
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The objective of this research is to determine whether smartphone games show promise for helping smokers increase their chances of quitting. The central hypothesis is that smokers who have access to smartphone games during their quit smoking attempt will smoke fewer cigarettes and report less craving than will smokers without such access.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: This arm of the project will address the following question:

How effective is the following intervention? Nicotine patch plus behavioral cessation counseling with access to Mobile Games. arm 2: This arm of the project will address the following question:

How effective is the following intervention:

Nicotine patch plus behavioral cessation counseling without access to Mobile Games.

Interventions: intervention 1: Nicotine patch intervention 2: Cessation Counseling intervention 3: Mobile Games
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 4-week starter kit of nicotine patch intervention 2: 5 brief counseling sessions intervention 3: None

Protocol document: