Mindset Intervention for Nicotine Dependence (MIND)

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (FHCC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking (Tobacco) Addiction; Psychology, Social; Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Growth Mindset; Behavioral: SmartQuit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03174730

8545

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates a new digitally delivered mindset based intervention in addition to a smartphone application (app) for smoking cessation. Participants will be provided an app (SmartQuit) that teaches them skills to quit, and will be randomly assigned to either receive a growth mindset intervention or to a control group.

Full description

Want to quit smoking? Welcome to the MIND Study, conducted by researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Join now to get a smartphone app-based quit smoking program that includes:

• Personalized plans for quitting
• Help with dealing with urges to smoke
• Information on nicotine withdrawal
• Help staying motivated
• Tracking progress with quitting
• A certificate of completion once you complete the program
• Scientifically-based information on quit medications

The MIND study gives you all these and more to help you quit smoking and live a happier, healthier life. For more information, visit mind.fredhutch.org.

Enrollment: 398 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

(1) age 18 or older, (2) smokes at least five cigarettes daily for at least past 12 months, (3) wants to quit in the next 30 days, (4) interested in learning skills to quit smoking, (5) resides in US, (6) has at least daily access to their own smartphone, (7) knows how to login and download a smartphone application from their smartphone, (8) willing and able to read in English, (9) not participating in other smoking cessation interventions (including our other intervention studies). To increase follow-up retention, eligibility criteria also include: (10) willing to complete one follow-up survey, (11) provide email, phone, and mailing address.

Exclusion criteria

Opposite of inclusion.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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398 participants in 2 patient groups

Growth mindset

Experimental group

Description:

In addition to SmartQuit (the app), study participants will receive the content in the form on one growth mindset tip (sent in an email) per day starting on the first day of the study. Email exercises will be sent out every 3 days and there are a total of 8 emails.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Growth Mindset

Behavioral: SmartQuit

Control

Other group

Description:

Participants will get SmartQuit, but not the growth mindset intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SmartQuit