"Quit Smoking on Your Own" Brief Online Study (TC-PAU-1)

i4Health

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Cigarette Smoking

Treatments: Behavioral: Brief Intervention #3; Behavioral: Brief Intervention #1; Behavioral: Brief Intervention #2

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02103829

TC-PAU-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Most individuals who smoke want to quit smoking. Most individuals who want to quit, quit on their own. The purpose of this study is to determine whether very brief suggestions provided online are comparatively more effective than others in increasing motivation to quit immediately after the suggestions are implemented and actual quit rates one month later.

There are no costs associated with participating in this study and participants will not be compensated for their participation.

To join the study paste the following link into your browser:

https://www.i4health-pau.org/quit-smoking-on-your-own

The entire study takes place online on an automated website.

Full description

Participants will be recruited online using search engine ads (e.g., Google), online association list serves, community websites designed to reach individuals interested in participating in research studies, and social media sites related to smoking cessation efforts.

The entire study will be administered online. Participants may complete it at a time and place of their convenience.

To join the study paste the following link into your browser:

https://www.i4health-pau.org/quit-smoking-on-your-own

The website will automatically obtain consent, ask 16 brief questions as a pre-test, randomize to 4 very brief interventions, ask 4 post-test questions, and at 1-month follow-up, send an email with a link to a 6-question survey. The initial online session is expected to take between 3 and 8 minutes and the 1-month follow-up survey less than 2 minutes.

Enrollment: 345 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult (18 years of age or older)
• Smoker who wants to quit
• Access to the Internet

Exclusion criteria

• Less than 18 years of age

Trial design

345 participants in 4 patient groups

Condition #1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Condition #1 will consist of Brief Intervention #1, a brief online suggestion that takes less than 1 minute to complete.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief Intervention #1

Condition #2

Experimental group

Description:

Condition #2 will consist of Brief Intervention #1 and Brief Intervention #2 that together take less than a minute to complete.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief Intervention #2

Behavioral: Brief Intervention #1

Condition #3

Experimental group

Description:

Condition #3 will consist of Brief Intervention #1 and Brief Intervention #3, which, together, will take less than 8 minutes to complete.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief Intervention #3

Behavioral: Brief Intervention #1

Condition #4

Experimental group

Description:

Condition #4 will consist of Brief Intervention #1, Brief Intervention #2, and Brief Intervention #3, which, together, will take less than 8 minutes to complete.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief Intervention #3

Behavioral: Brief Intervention #2

Behavioral: Brief Intervention #1