Effect of Helpers Stay Quit Online Training on Preventing Smoking Relapse and Personal Networks: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial and Embedded Mixed Methods Personal Network Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite major gains in smoking cessation treatment, over half of those who recently quit will relapse within one year. Two systematic reviews of relapse prevention studies reached differing conclusions on the effectiveness of behavioral interventions. Existing relapse prevention evidence is limited by study designs, methodology, and conceptual approaches to behavioral interventions. Personal networks exert powerful effects on initiating and maintaining smoking behavior and can facilitate maintaining abstinence or trigger relapse. To date, relapse prevention interventions have focused on those who are newly abstinent ("abstainers") and have not attempted to influence the abstainer's personal network. The Helpers Stay Quit (Helpers Stay Quit) online training is a conceptua

SUBMITTER: Muramoto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12840865 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature