Text Message Quit Vaping Intervention for Young Adults

Truth Initiative

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Cessation

Treatments: Other: This is Quitting; Other: Assessment only Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04251273

TruthInitiativeQVS

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research study, conducted by Truth Initiative, will help us learn how text messaging can help young adults between 18 and 24 years of age quit vaping.

Full description

The Quit Vaping Study (QVS)'s primary aim is to conduct a fully powered comparative effectiveness trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a quit vaping text message program in promoting abstinence from e-cigarettes among young users aged 18-24. This study is a 2-arm randomized controlled trial conducted among young users aged 18-24 recruited through online channels. Participants will be randomized to a quit vaping text message intervention or to an assessment-only control condition and followed for 7 months to roughly correspond to 6-months post-treatment. The secondary aim is to examine potential mediators of program effectiveness, including treatment engagement and changes in self-efficacy and perceived social support for quitting.

Enrollment: 2,588 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-24
• Past 30-day use of e-cigarettes containing nicotine
• Interest in quitting e-cigarette use in the next 30 days
• US residence

Exclusion criteria

• Failure to confirm mobile number after initial sign-up

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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2,588 participants in 2 patient groups

This is Quitting

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be enrolled to receive messages from This is Quitting. Users receive one age-appropriate message per day tailored to their enrollment date or quit date, which can be set and reset via text message. Those not ready to quit receive 4 weeks of messages focused on building skills and confidence. Users who set a quit date receive messages for a week preceding it and 8 weeks afterward that include encouragement and support, skill- and self-efficacy building exercises, coping strategies, and information about the risks of vaping, benefits of quitting, and cutting down to quit. Keywords COPE, STRESS, SLIP, and MORE provide on-demand support.

Treatment:

Other: This is Quitting

Assessment only Control

Other group

Description:

After an initial enrollment message, participants will be contacted periodically to assess e-cigarette use. At the end of the intervention period, they will receive information on how to sign up for This is Quitting if they are interested in the program

Treatment:

Other: Assessment only Control