Perceptions Toward an Attentional Bias Modification Mobile Game Among Individuals With Low Socioeconomic Status Who Smoke: Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Attentional bias modification (ABM) can help address implicit attention from individuals who smoke toward smoking cues, which trigger cravings and lapses that impede smoking cessation. We developed an ABM mobile game, Fruit Squish, to support individuals who smoke and are quitting as part of a multicomponent smoking cessation mobile app, Quit Journey. Users advance in the game by tapping on neutral (ie, fruit) rather than smoking-related (eg, cigarette pack) imagery that they are presented with, essentially training them to avoid focusing on smoking cues.

Objective

This study aimed to gauge acceptance of an ABM smoking cues mobile game among young adults who smoked and were socioeconomically disadvantaged.

Methods

We recruited 38 individuals who smoked ciga

SUBMITTER: Wakeman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12083738 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature