Improving Adherence to Smoking Cessation Treatment: Intervention Effects in a Web-Based Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Web-based smoking cessation interventions can deliver evidence-based treatments to a wide swath of the population, but effectiveness is often limited by insufficient adherence to proven treatment components. This study evaluated the impact of a social network (SN) intervention and free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) on adherence to evidence-based components of smoking cessation treatment in the context of a Web-based intervention.

Methods

A sample of adult U.S. smokers (N = 5290) was recruited via BecomeAnEX.org, a free smoking cessation Web site. Smokers were randomized to one of four arms: (1) an interactive, evidence-based smoking cessation Web site (WEB) alone; (2) WEB in conjunction with an SN intervention designed to integrate participants into the onlin

SUBMITTER: Graham AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6075377 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature