Stanford Tobacco Treatment Services - Virtual Reality Treatment for Smoking Cessation

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking Cessation; MindCotine Virtual Reality Mindful Exposure Therapy

Treatments: Behavioral: MindCotine's VR app

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05220254

P30CA124435 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

IRB-60253

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to see how feasible a mobile app based virtual reality program for smoking cessation (MindCotine) would be among Stanford cancer center patients

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Daily cigarette smoker or some day smoker (>9 cigarettes per week)
• Age 18+
• English or Spanish fluent
• Smartphone compatibility
• Available to interact with a smartphone app for 6-weeks
• Available to complete the EOT assessment at end of 6-weeks
• Ability to understand and the willingness to personally sign the written IRB-approved informed consent document.
• Confirm phone, email, address during consent

Exclusion criteria

• Ever had epilepsy
• Less than 10 cigarettes per week
• Not English or Spanish fluent
• No smartphone compatibility
• Unavailable to interact with the VR program,
• Unavailable to answer questions about the intervention post-treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

MindCotine mobile app program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: MindCotine's VR app