Online community use predicts abstinence in combined Internet/phone intervention for smoking cessation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the causal effects of online community use on 30-day point prevalence abstinence at 3 months among smokers that received a combined Internet/phone intervention for smoking cessation.

Method

Participants were 399 adult smokers selected from the combined Internet/phone arm of The iQUITT Study (Graham et al., 2011), a randomized trial of Internet and proactive telephone counseling for smoking cessation. All selected participants had accessed a web-based smoking-cessation program with an established online community and received at least one telephone counseling call. Automated tracking metrics of passive (e.g., reading posts, viewing profiles) and active (e.g., writing posts, sending messages) community use were extracted at 3 months. Self-selected communi

SUBMITTER: Papandonatos GD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4919211 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature