Text Message Support to Prevent Smoking Relapse

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tobacco Use Disorder
• Interventions: Behavioral: Text Message Craving Program; Behavioral: Self-Help Manual Plus Control Texts

• Registration Number: NCT02968095
• Lead Sponsor: Miami University

Brief Summary

The purpose of this research is to test a text message intervention for people who are beginning an attempt to quit smoking. The intervention seeks to teach people to think about their cravings to smoke in more helpful ways. The investigators expect that participants receiving the text message craving program will be less likely to begin smoking again compared to participants in a control condition.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2016-11-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-11-16
• Study First Posted: 2016-11-18
• Study Start: 2018-08-07
• Primary Completion: 2019-08-23
• Study Completion: 2019-08-23
• Status Verified: 2019-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-11-13
• Last Update Posted: 2019-11-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 58

Inclusion Criteria

• Age 18 or older
• Current daily smoking defined as smoking ≥5 cigarettes per day and having smoked for at least 3 months. During the first visit smoking status will be verified by a Carbon Monoxide level of at least 8 parts per million.
• Have a mobile phone and use text messaging at least monthly
• Be planning to quit smoking without pharmacological help.

Exclusion Criteria

• Significant cognitive impairment
• Current therapy or pharmacological intervention for smoking or nicotine cravings
• Inability to read English

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Text Message Craving Program	Text Message Craving Program	Text messages designed to help smokers to modify their thinking styles to be more adaptive, delivered 2-3 times per day.
Self-Help Manual Plus Control Texts	Self-Help Manual Plus Control Texts	A print, self-help manual plus general motivational text messages delivered 2-3 times per day.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
7-Day Point Prevalence Abstinence	End of Treatment (6-week) Follow-Up	Point prevalence abstinence is defined as the prevalence of not experiencing a full relapse in the period immediately preceding measurement. A full relapse will be defined as 7 continuous days of smoking or smoking ≥ 1 day(s) per week for the two consecutive weeks preceding the time of measurement. Self-reported abstinence will be verified by a Carbon Monoxide assay of breath samples and will override self-report in the direction of smoking.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Miami University; 🇺🇸 Oxford, Ohio, United States