MapMySmoke: Smoking Cessation App With Geospatial Capture

Phase 1

• Conditions: Smoking; Cigarette Smoking; Smoking, Tobacco
• Interventions: Device: MapMySmoke

• Registration Number: NCT02932917
• Lead Sponsor: University of St Andrews

Brief Summary

Place-based cues can be an important trigger of smoking behavior, therefore the investigators wish to learn more about the influence of the built environment on individual smoking behavior. This is to facilitate dynamic support during the post-quit phase. MapMySmoke is a mobile phone application that enables the capture of spatial data during smoking and craving events. These data will be used to create individualized support plans via the app.

Detailed Description

Investigators know that place-based cues play an important role in the triggering of smoking events, and even in relapse events. It follows that providing individual smokers with spatially explicit and temporally dynamic intervention messages may support smoking cessation attempts.

The investigators have built a mobile phone application-MayMySmoke-that allows individuals to capture each smoking event at the times and places they occur, and tag the events with qualitative metadata. The app also allows individuals to document and describe craving events. The goal of the app is first to understand an individual's smoking profile, and second to support them with dynamic text messages.

The investigators are deploying the app in a clinical setting-the United Kingdom's National Health Service, within the Fife region of Scotland. Using two feasibility studies of increasing size, the investigators are attempting first to get initial feedback on the app, and then to improve the app and deploy it across a broader community of smokers.

Though the app is targeted to smoking behavior, it is possible to extend it to include other negative health behaviors that may have a spatial component.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-06
• Study First Submitted: 2016-10-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-10-12
• Study First Posted: 2016-10-13
• Status Verified: 2017-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-05-19
• Last Update Posted: 2017-05-22
• Primary Completion: 2017-12
• Study Completion: 2017-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 110

Inclusion Criteria

• National Health Service (Fife) Patients
• Self-reported tobacco smoker
• Stated intention to quit smoking
• English speaker

Exclusion Criteria

• Mental illness
• learning difficulty

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
MapMySmoke	MapMySmoke	All patients in the study will use the MapMySmoke app to document their smoking and craving behavior

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Continued use of the MapMySmoke App as Assessed by Monitoring Individual Anonymized Data Feeds on the Server	1 year	The investigators will determine, via the data feed to the server, if patients continue to use the app during the pre- and post-quit phase

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Patients Using the App Who Are Abstinent from Smoking As Assessed by Follow-up Survey	3 months	The investigators will determine via survey if patients have maintained their quit attempt