iQuit Mindfully: Text Messaging for Smoking Cessation

Georgia State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cigarette Smoking

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-Help guide; Behavioral: iQuit Mindfully; Drug: Nicotine Patch; Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Addiction Treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03029819

K23AT008442 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate text messaging as a way to enhance mindfulness-based treatment for smoking cessation.

Full description

This study is a pilot investigation of mindfulness-based smoking cessation treatment incorporating between-session text messaging ("iQuit Mindfully"). Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups: Mindfulness-based Addiction Treatment (MBAT) or iQuit Mindfully (MBAT with the addition of between-session text messages).

All participants will receive in-person group treatment based on the 8-week MBAT protocol in addition to nicotine patch therapy and self-help materials. Participants assigned to iQuit Mindfully will receive additional support via text messaging. Assessments will occur at baseline, at each of the weekly in-person visits, at end of treatment, and at 1-month follow-up. Feasibility, smoking abstinence, mindfulness practice, and indicators of tobacco dependence and psychological well-being will be assessed.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 18-65 years
• current smoker with history of >5 cigarettes/day for past year (and expired carbon monoxide >6 parts per million [ppm])
• motivated to quit within next 30 days
• valid home address in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area
• functioning telephone number
• own a mobile phone with text messaging capacity
• can speak, read, and write in English
• at least a sixth-grade level of health literacy

Exclusion criteria

• contraindication for nicotine patch
• active substance abuse/dependence
• regular use of tobacco products other than cigarettes
• current use of tobacco cessation medications
• pregnancy or lactation
• household member enrolled in the study
• current diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, or use of antipsychotic medications
• clinically significant depressive symptoms

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness-based Addiction Treatment (MBAT)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Nicotine patch; self-help guide; MBAT

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-Help guide

Drug: Nicotine Patch

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Addiction Treatment

iQuit Mindfully

Experimental group

Description:

Nicotine patch; self-help guide; MBAT; text messaging

Treatment:

Behavioral: iQuit Mindfully

Behavioral: Self-Help guide

Drug: Nicotine Patch

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Addiction Treatment