Smartphone Application Smoking Cessation Study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tobacco Use
• Interventions: Behavioral: quitSTART

• Registration Number: NCT04623736
• Lead Sponsor: University of Virginia

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine if using the smartphone application quitSTART can help people quit smoking and to understand how use of specific smartphone application features when trying to quit smoking is associated with success.

Detailed Description

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. and causes multiple cancers. Approximately 34 million U.S. adults currently smoke cigarettes, but over half of all smokers attempt to quit smoking each year. However, only about 6% quit successfully, in part, because many smokers make unassisted quit attempts, due to the lack of accessibility of cessation programs. Mobile health (mHealth) smoking cessation programs delivered through smartphone applications ('apps') can potentially reach a large number of smokers in the U.S., as 81% of U.S. adult smokers own a smartphone. The National Cancer Institute hosts Smokefree.gov, a suite of free, publicly available smoking cessation resources. In addition to web based and text-messaging resources, Smokefree.gov launched the quitSTART smartphone app in 2013, which is a publicly available smoking cessation app.

Participants in this study will be asked to complete a pre-cessation assessment, then download, install, and try to quit smoking using the smoking cessation smartphone application, quitSTART. Participants will be asked to use quitSTART for 4 weeks. Participants will also be asked to complete online surveys 2 and 4 weeks after the start of the study. To understand how people are using quitSTART, the investigators will collect quitSTART usage data from all participants (for example, how often someone opens quitSTART during the study period and what specific features someone uses).

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-10-19
• Study First Submitted: 2020-10-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-11-09
• Study First Posted: 2020-11-10
• Primary Completion: 2021-05-12
• Study Completion: 2021-06-10
• Status Verified: 2021-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-11-09
• Last Update Posted: 2021-11-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 152

Inclusion Criteria

• Cigarette smoker
• Smoked at least 100 cigarettes
• Able to read and speak English
• Owns a smartphone
• 18 years of age or older
• USA resident

Exclusion Criteria

• Not a cigarette smoker
• has not smoked at least 100 cigarettes
• Not able to read and speak English
• Does not own a smartphone
• Under 18 years of age
• Not a US resident
• Currently pregnant

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
quitSTART	quitSTART	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-reported 7-day smoking abstinence - 2 weeks	2 weeks	"Have you smoked a cigarette (even a puff) in the past 7 days?" self-reported by the participant
Self-reported 7-day smoking abstinence - 4 weeks	4 weeks	"Have you smoked a cigarette (even a puff) in the past 7 days?" self-reported by the participant

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-reported continuous smoking abstinence - 2 weeks	2 weeks	"In the last two weeks, have you smoked at all?" self-reported by the participant
Self-reported continuous smoking abstinence - 4 weeks	4 weeks	"In the last four weeks, have you smoked at all?" self-reported by the participant

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Virginia; 🇺🇸 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States