Smartband Mindfulness Study

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Behavioral: Smartband automatic smoking detection combined with brief mindfulness interventions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03995225

1R34AT010365-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2000025082

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine treatment fidelity for a smartband/smartphone-based smoking monitoring, notification and brief mindfulness intervention.

Full description

This study will test the feasibility of using a smartband to detect and track smoking and deliver brief smoking cessation interventions by smartphone app in real time. Smokers will wear a smartband to detect and notify them of smoking for 21 days and obtain individual smoking profiles; detected smoking will then trigger a "mindful smoking" exercise for the next 7 days leading up to their quit date at 30 days; after which another mindfulness exercise ("RAIN": recognize, accept, investigate and note cravings rather than smoke) will be delivered prior to each predicted smoking episode according to their individual smoking profile for 30 days post-quit.

Enrollment: 155 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least 18 years of age
• Daily smokers (≥ 5 cigarettes per day)
• Daily smoker for at least 2 years
• Own an Android phone or iPhone
• Fluent in English as study content is currently only available in English
• >18 of 20 on the Action subscale of the Readiness to Change Questionnaire

Exclusion criteria

• E-cigarette use (some days/every day)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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155 participants in 1 patient group

Smokers

Experimental group

Description:

This study involves wearing a smartband to monitor, record and notify smokers of smoking events and deliver real-time brief mindfulness exercises by smartphone app. There is only one arm.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Smartband automatic smoking detection combined with brief mindfulness interventions