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Pharmacological Aids for Interactive Smoking Cessation (NRT_2)

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Oregon Center for Applied Science

Status

Completed

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Treatments

Behavioral: Smokefree Partners: 21 Days to Freedom
Other: Wait-List Control

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT02329249
SBIR37R-2
R44CA077986 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is an important need for effective smoking cessation programs that both (a) promote the effective use of pharmacological aids, such as nicotine replacement products and bupropion, and (b) provide cognitive-behavioral support for stopping smoking.The Internet is an increasingly attractive intervention medium for delivering behavior change interventions, including smoking cessation.This study examined smoking cessation rates among adults participating in a randomized controlled trial of the Smokefree Partners: 21 Days to Freedom ™ program, a theoretically based, online smoking cessation program that included message tailoring and interactivity combined with the live personal support of a smoking cessation coach. Coaching support was provided almost entirely asynchronously via prescripted but individually tailored emails.

Full description

The Smokefree Partners: 21 Days to Freedom combined online video, text, and interactive tools to promote the effective use of pharmacological aids (PA) - nicotine replacement products and bupropion (Zyban®) - and provide cognitive-behavioral support for users as they attempted to stop smoking. Smoking cessation content was based on the U.S. Surgeon General's Clinical Guidelines, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, 2008 update. Presentation of some of the content (e.g., gender of the narrator, PA recommendations) was tailored to the user on demographic and smoking history information provided during registration and within the introductory session.

Two critical features provided social support and accountability. First, each user was assigned a "live" smoking cessation coach to provide support via individually tailored phone or email contacts (contact preference specified by the user). Users also received automated email reminders and prompts from the program. Second, a bulletin board/forum feature was added to promote social support among users.

The Smokefree Partners intervention was a multi-session intervention in which users experienced a controlled and scheduled exposure to 21 discrete web site sessions. The program required users to wait at least 10 hours between sessions (i.e., login was "locked" until 10 hours had passed after a user's previous Web site session). Carefully timed and tailored coaching messages provided cessation tips and prompted users to return to the web site to view the next session.

The program was evaluated online in a randomized clinical trial of smokers recruited through major worksites across the United States. The aim of the evaluation was to determine if a theoretically based, online smoking cessation program that included message tailoring and interactivity combined with the live personal support of a coach would result in improved quit rates when compared to a wait-list control condition.

Enrollment

500 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • large worksites with internet connection
  • thinking of quitting smoking
  • 18 years of age or older

Exclusion criteria

  • not thinking of quitting smoking
  • 17 years of age or younger

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

500 participants in 2 patient groups

Smokefree Partners: 21 Days to Freedom
Experimental group
Description:
Smoking cessation website program with live personal coach
Treatment:
Behavioral: Smokefree Partners: 21 Days to Freedom
Wait-list control
Other group
Description:
120-day wait-list and then provided access to the smoking cessation website
Treatment:
Other: Wait-List Control

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