Effectiveness of a French Automated Web-based Smoking Cessation Program (Stamp)

Institut national de prevention et d'education pour la sante

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Consumption

Treatments: Behavioral: Web-based automated "coaching" by e-mails; Behavioral: Self-help guide

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01073085

Stamp

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a French fully automated web-based smoking cessation program known as the "coaching", by comparing it to an online self-help guide.

Enrollment: 2,478 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18 and older
• Smoker
• Willing to quit smoking in the next two weeks
• Having a regular access to Internet
• Having a personal e-mail address
• Not having benefited from the "coaching" the investigators want to assess yet

Exclusion criteria

• No personal e-mail address
• Not able to give the informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2,478 participants in 2 patient groups

Web-based coaching

Experimental group

Description:

Those in the "coaching" arm will benefit from e-mails with advice, information, support for smoking cessation. These mails will be adapted to their personal profile.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Web-based automated "coaching" by e-mails

Self-help guide

Active Comparator group

Description:

Those in the "active comparator arm" will be allowed to download a self-help guide with step-by-step advice for smoking cessation.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-help guide