A pilot adaptive trial of text messages, mailed nicotine replacement therapy, and telephone coaching among primary care patients who smoke.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMART) inform the design of adaptive treatment interventions. We tested the feasibility of a SMART to deliver a stepped-care intervention among primary care patients who smoked daily.

Methods

In a 12-week pilot SMART (NCT04020718), we tested the feasibility of recruiting and retaining (>80 %) participants to an adaptive intervention starting with cessation text messages (SMS). The study randomly assigned participants (R1) to assessment of quit status, the tailoring variable, after either 4 or 8 weeks of SMS. The study offered continued SMS alone to those reporting abstinence. Those reporting smoking were randomized (R2) to SMS + mailed NRT or SMS + NRT + brief telephone coaching.

Results

During Jan-March a

SUBMITTER: Kruse GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10016234 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature