Exploring perspectives on digital smoking cessation just-in-time adaptive interventions: A focus group study with adult smokers and smoking cessation professionals.

ABSTRACT: Technology-mediated just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs), which provide users with real-time, tailored behavioural support, are a promising innovation for smoking cessation. However, a greater understanding of stakeholder, including user, perspectives on JITAIs is needed. Focus groups with UK-based adult smokers (three groups; N = 19) and smoking cessation professionals (one group; N = 5) were conducted January-June 2024. Topic guides addressed the integration of a JITAI into users' lives, preferred content and features, and data and privacy. Transcripts were analysed using inductive and deductive Framework Analysis; deductive codes were derived from the Theoretical Domains Framework and the Technology Acceptance Model. Four co-equal major themes, "Smoking Cessation Process", "JITA

SUBMITTER: Leppin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12047773 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature