WebQuit Online Smoking Cessation Study

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (FHCC)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Smoking

Treatments: Behavioral: WebQuit study group; Behavioral: WebQuit control group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01166334

FHCRC IR#7181

Details and patient eligibility

About

Would you like to quit smoking?

Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is launching a new study that may be able to help. Participants who enroll in this study will be randomly assigned by computer (like flipping a coin) to one of two online programs. The goal of this study is to learn which of these programs is the most effective at helping people stop smoking. Findings from this study will be used to help build more effective online smoking cessation programs in the future.

Participants in both of the smoking cessation programs used in this study will receive:

• Interactive tools for dealing more effectively with urges to smoke
• Step-by-step guides for quitting smoking
• Personalized plans for quitting and remaining smoke-free
• Electronic links for reaching one-on-one expert help for quitting

Participants will be asked to complete online questionnaires, including a brief three-month follow-up survey.

There is no cost for participating in this study.

To enroll in this study or for more information, please visit www.webquit.com.

This study is being conducted by Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (www.fhcrc.org), a world leader in advancing the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The principal investigator for the WebQuit smoking cessation study is Dr. Jonathan Bricker, a faculty member at both the Hutchinson Center and at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Enrollment: 721 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 or older
• a current resident of the US
• someone who has smoked daily for at least the past 12 months
• someone who wants to quit smoking in the next 30 days
• willing and able to read in English
• able to connect to the Internet for at least one hour per week for three consecutive months
• able to use a website
• not participating in other smoking cessation interventions
• willing and able to complete a Baseline Survey
• willing to be randomized to either online program

Exclusion criteria

• inability to meet inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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721 participants in 2 patient groups

WebQuit study group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intervention arm 1 (identity and description withheld to protect integrity of study)

Treatment:

Behavioral: WebQuit study group

WebQuit control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intervention arm 2 (identity and description withheld to protect integrity of study)

Treatment:

Behavioral: WebQuit control group