Establishing the Effectiveness of Publicly Available Smoking Cessation Resource

University of Virginia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: SmokefreeTXT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05055778

3928

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of SmokefreeTXT, a smoking cessation text messaging program currently available to anyone in the United States through www.smokefree.gov, and to compare cessation outcomes for smokers living in different regions of Virginia while participants use the program. Participants will be asked to complete assessments at Baseline, 7 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months and will be asked to use a research version of SmokefreeTXT.

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 and over
• Current cigarette smoker (has smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and currently smokes)
• Ability to read and speak English
• Resident of Virginia
• Owns a cell phone

Exclusion criteria

• Not a current smoker (e.g., started a quit attempt between providing interest information and starting the study)
• Identity not able to be verified from information provided on interest form
• Does not own a cell phone
• Pregnant smoker or may become pregnant in the next 6 months
• Lives in an area that has met recruitment criteria (after recruitment has begun)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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49 participants in 1 patient group

SmokfreeTXT

Experimental group

Description:

Research version of the publicly available SmokefreeTXT program

Treatment:

Behavioral: SmokefreeTXT