Vape-Free Text-Messaging: Pilot Study

Seok Hyun Gwon

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: E-cigarette Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard care control using standard national resources; Behavioral: E-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05906082

23.179

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a small pilot randomized controlled trial to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the e-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention with young adults in rural areas.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 24 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English speaking
• 18-24 years
• everyday e-cigarette use in the past month
• ownership of a mobile phone or smartphone with texting and internet access abilities
• knowledge of how to use text messages
• plan on quitting e-cigarette use within one month
• home address in a rural county of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals who reported use of other tobacco products (e.g., cigarettes, smokeless tobacco) than e-cigarettes in the past month

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention (E-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: E-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention

Standard care (Standard care control using standard national resources)

Active Comparator group

Description:

This standard care group will receive standard care resources from smokefree.gov.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard care control using standard national resources