Trial of An Innovative Smartphone Intervention for Smoking Cessation

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (FHCC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Smoking

Treatments: Behavioral: Smartphone-delivered Intervention (SmartQuit); Behavioral: : Smartphone-delivered Intervention (Standard of care app)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02724462

NCI-2018-02662 (Registry Identifier)

RG1001191 (Other Identifier)

R01CA192849 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

8317 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to determine whether the novel smartphone app (SmartQuit) provides higher quit rates than the current standard smoking cessation app.

Enrollment: 2,503 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 18 or older
• smokes at least five cigarettes daily for at least past 12 months
• wants to quit cigarette smoking in the next 30 days
• if concurrently using any other nicotine or tobacco products, wants to quit using them within the next 30 days
• interested in learning skills to quit smoking
• willing to be randomly assigned to either condition
• resides in US
• has at least daily access to their own personal Apple iPhone, Android, or Windows Phone
• knows how to login and download a smartphone application
• willing and able to read in English
• not using other smoking cessation interventions (including apps or our other intervention studies).
• willing to complete all three follow-up surveys
• provide email, phone, and mailing address.

Exclusion criteria

• The exclusion criteria are opposite of the inclusion criteria listed above.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

---

2,503 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

This is the experimental arm of the study. This includes receiving the novel/experimental smartphone smoking cessation app. Therapy description withheld to protect the integrity of the study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Smartphone-delivered Intervention (SmartQuit)

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

This is the control arm of the study. This includes receiving the standard of care smartphone smoking cessation app. Therapy description withheld to protect the integrity of the study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: : Smartphone-delivered Intervention (Standard of care app)