Text Message Support to Prevent Smoking Relapse

Miami University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Use Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-Help Manual Plus Control Texts; Behavioral: Text Message Craving Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02968095

K23DA037320 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to test a text message intervention for people who are beginning an attempt to quit smoking. The intervention seeks to teach people to think about their cravings to smoke in more helpful ways. The investigators expect that participants receiving the text message craving program will be less likely to begin smoking again compared to participants in a control condition.

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 or older
• Current daily smoking defined as smoking ≥5 cigarettes per day and having smoked for at least 3 months. During the first visit smoking status will be verified by a Carbon Monoxide level of at least 8 parts per million.
• Have a mobile phone and use text messaging at least monthly
• Be planning to quit smoking without pharmacological help.

Exclusion criteria

• Significant cognitive impairment
• Current therapy or pharmacological intervention for smoking or nicotine cravings
• Inability to read English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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58 participants in 2 patient groups

Text Message Craving Program

Experimental group

Description:

Text messages designed to help smokers to modify their thinking styles to be more adaptive, delivered 2-3 times per day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text Message Craving Program

Self-Help Manual Plus Control Texts

Active Comparator group

Description:

A print, self-help manual plus general motivational text messages delivered 2-3 times per day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-Help Manual Plus Control Texts