Outcomes and Device Usage for Fully Automated Internet Interventions Designed for a Smartphone or Personal Computer: The MobileQuit Smoking Cessation Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many best practice smoking cessation programs use fully automated internet interventions designed for nonmobile personal computers (desktop computers, laptops, and tablets). A relatively small number of smoking cessation interventions have been designed specifically for mobile devices such as smartphones.

Objective

This study examined the efficacy and usage patterns of two internet-based best practices smoking cessation interventions.

Methods

Overall, 1271 smokers who wanted to quit were randomly assigned to (1) MobileQuit (designed for-and constrained its use to-mobile devices, included text messaging, and embodied tunnel information architecture) or (2) QuitOnline (designed for nonmobile desktop or tablet computers, did not include text messages, and used

SUBMITTER: Danaher BG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594213 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature