Negotiating a Quit Date or Not in Online Interventions

University of Oslo

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Nicotine Dependence, Cigarettes

Treatments: Other: Endre: a digital smoking cessation counsellor

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03194919

NFR 228158/H10-B

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary purpose of the current study is to test the effect of providing users of automated web-based smoking cessation interventions with the option of negotiating and re-negotiating the quit date.

Full description

Web- and mobile phone health behavior change interventions, including smoking cessation programs, offer great promise, but little is known about how such interventions should be designed to increase their efficacy

The primary purpose of the current study is to test the effect of providing users of automated web-based smoking cessation interventions with the option of negotiating and re-negotiating the quit date.

The investigators propose a 2-arm RCT with 1500 adult study participants that all receive a best practices web-based smoking cessation program designed for use on smart phones (web-app). The intervention includes a ten day/session preparation phase (participants continue smoking) as well as a four week post-cessation follow-up phase (14 sessions). The post-cessation phase will only be given to participants that report an initial quit attempt. Participants will be randomized to two versions of the intervention: 1) A version that does not provide participants with the option of negotiating the quit day (the preparation phase is fixed to ten days/sessions); or 2) a version that provides the participants with the option of negotiating/re-negotiate the quit day on three occasions. The three occasions are on the first day/session of the intervention, on the fourth day/session of the intervention and on the eleventh day/session of the intervention. The primary outcome is making a quit attempt.

Enrollment: 1,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 year or older
• being a current smoker
• determined to or considering to quit smoking
• provide valid e-mail address
• provide valid norwegian cell phone number
• complete a baseline questionnaire
• start using the intervention (pushing the next page button one time or more on the first session provided

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,500 participants in 2 patient groups

Negotiating quit date

Experimental group

Description:

Endre: a digital smoking cessation counsellor

Treatment:

Other: Endre: a digital smoking cessation counsellor

Preset quit date

Active Comparator group

Description:

Endre: a digital smoking cessation counsellor

Treatment:

Other: Endre: a digital smoking cessation counsellor