Use of the Smoking Cessation App Ex-Smokers iCoach and Associations With Smoking-Related Outcomes Over Time in a Large Sample of European Smokers: Retrospective Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital interventions are increasingly used to support smoking cessation. Ex-smokers iCoach was a widely available app for smoking cessation used by 404,551 European smokers between June 15, 2011, and June 21, 2013. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate the uptake of a freely available digital smoking cessation intervention and its effects on smoking-related outcomes.

Objective

We aimed to investigate whether there were distinct trajectories of iCoach use, examine which baseline characteristics were associated with user groups (based on the intensity of use), and assess if and how these groups were associated with smoking-related outcomes.

Methods

Analyses were performed using data from iCoach users registered between June 15, 2011, and June 21,

SUBMITTER: Mansour MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10481207 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature