Penn State TXT2Quit Study

Penn State Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

Nicotine Dependence, Cigarettes

Treatments

Behavioral: Control

Behavioral: Motivational Text Messages

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02367391

41720

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is evaluating the feasibility and short term smoking cessation outcomes of an automated smoking cessation intervention delivered via mobile phone text messaging as an adjunct to Varenicline in a primary care setting.

Enrollment

152 patients

Sex

All

Ages

21+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Smoke >4 cigarettes/day for at least 6 months
Age 21+
Want to quit and ready to try in next 30 days
Willing to quit all forms of tobacco (including e-cigs)
Willing to use Chantix to try to quit
Have a cell phone able to receive text messages
Willing to attend 3 visits and use varenicline for smoking cessation
Plan to live in local area for next 6 months
Read and write in English
Women not pregnant and taking steps to avoid
Able to understand and willing to sign consent

Exclusion criteria

History of allergic reaction or other adverse event while using varenicline
Used a smoking cessation aid/medicine in past 1 month (including e-cigs)
Currently pregnant or nursing
Does not have a mobile phone that can send and receive text messages or unwilling to receive study texts
Uncontrolled serious mental illness or substance abuse or inpatient treatment for these in the past 6 months
Uses non-cigarette tobacco products and does not plan to quit all tobacco.
Has a history of kidney problems or receives dialysis
Had any thoughts that they would be better off dead or of deliberate self-harm in the prior 4 weeks
Had a heart attack in the past 4 weeks
Mental conditions that would prohibit the participant from completing the protocol