App-Based Smoking Urge Reduction Intervention for Young Adults: Protocol Combining a Microrandomized Trial and Conventional Between-Subject Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco smoking is the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States, and young adults have high smoking rates. Although most young adult smokers are interested in quitting, they underutilize professional cessation support. Smartphones have wide reach and integration into young adults' lives, and these devices offer great opportunities to deliver cessation interventions by delivering messages suggesting coping strategies "in the moment" when smokers need cessation support.

Objective

The overall goal of this trial is to evaluate the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness or acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) messages for young adults targeted at specific high-risk situations for smoking.

Methods

We wil

SUBMITTER: Thrul J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12504902 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature