Community-based Mobile-assisted Brief Intervention for Smoking Cessation

National University of Singapore

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Smoking &Amp; Tobacco Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Opt-out referral; Behavioral: Mobile chat messaging; Behavioral: Brief cessation advice + self-help booklet

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07375459

NUS-IRB-2025-690

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this pilot trial is to evaluate the feasibility of a mobile-assisted brief intervention for smoking cessation in community-based individuals in Singapore. Specific aims include:

1. To assess how many eligible individuals accept the invitation to participate in the trial
2. To assess the retention of the participants through 6 months after treatment initiation
3. To assess the acceptability of the intervention in terms of participants' engagement and ratings
4. To examine the intervention effect on abstinence outcomes

Participants will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or control group and followed for 6 months from randomisation.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 21 to 80 years
• Smoked at least one cigarette daily
• Able to communicate and read in English or Chinese
• Own a smartphone with WhatsApp installed

Exclusion criteria

• Exposed to any smoking cessation treatment in the past 3 months
• Pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Mobile-assisted brief intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief cessation advice + self-help booklet

Behavioral: Mobile chat messaging

Behavioral: Opt-out referral

Brief advice

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief cessation advice + self-help booklet