Smartphone Application Smoking Cessation Study

NCT ID: NCT04623736

Last Updated: 2021-11-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 152 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-10-19
• Study Completion Date: 2021-06-10

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).

Conditions

Tobacco Use

Keywords

Tobacco use; Smoking cessation; Smartphone applications; mHealth

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

quitSTART

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

quitSTART

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

All participants will have access to the Smokefree.gov Initiative smoking cessation smartphone application, quitSTART. This app is available, at no cost, to anyone who owns a smartphone and is interested in quitting smoking. All smokers who download quitSTART are asked to provide basic information about themselves (e.g., age, sex, reason to quit smoking, triggers to smoke, when users typically smoke, how users plan to celebrate success, smoking frequency, age when started smoking regularly, ethnicity, race, cigarettes smoked per day), and set a quit date. Information about cessation and challenges to help support quitting are available, as well as games and tracking features. While using the app, users can proactively report cigarette cravings, if they slipped, if they are feeling "down" or feeling "great". If a user reports a craving, they have the option to mark the timing or location of the craving and request a reminder to resist future cravings at the same time or location.

Interventions

quitSTART

All participants will have access to the Smokefree.gov Initiative smoking cessation smartphone application, quitSTART. This app is available, at no cost, to anyone who owns a smartphone and is interested in quitting smoking. All smokers who download quitSTART are asked to provide basic information about themselves (e.g., age, sex, reason to quit smoking, triggers to smoke, when users typically smoke, how users plan to celebrate success, smoking frequency, age when started smoking regularly, ethnicity, race, cigarettes smoked per day), and set a quit date. Information about cessation and challenges to help support quitting are available, as well as games and tracking features. While using the app, users can proactively report cigarette cravings, if they slipped, if they are feeling "down" or feeling "great". If a user reports a craving, they have the option to mark the timing or location of the craving and request a reminder to resist future cravings at the same time or location.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

ICF International

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Virginia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Kara Wiseman, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Kara P Wiseman

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Virginia

Locations

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Countries

United States

References

Siegel LN, Wiseman KP, Budenz A, Prutzman Y. Identifying Patterns of Smoking Cessation App Feature Use That Predict Successful Quitting: Secondary Analysis of Experimental Data Leveraging Machine Learning. JMIR AI. 2024 May 22;3:e51756. doi: 10.2196/51756.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 38875564 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

3643

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id