A Smartphone App Designed to Help Cancer Patients Stop Smoking: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial on Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persistent smoking after a cancer diagnosis predicts worse treatment outcomes and mortality, but access to effective smoking cessation interventions is limited. Smartphone apps can address this problem by providing a highly accessible, low-cost smoking cessation intervention designed for patients with a recent cancer diagnosis.

Objective

This study aimed to summarize our development process and report the trial design, feasibility, participant acceptability, preliminary effectiveness, and impact on processes of change (eg, cancer stigma) of the first-known smoking cessation smartphone app targeted for cancer patients.

Methods

We used an agile, user-centered design framework to develop a fully automated smartphone app called Quit2Heal that provided skills tr

SUBMITTER: Bricker JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6996729 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature