Effectiveness of the e-Tabac Info Service application for smoking cessation: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the effectiveness of the mobile e-Tabac Info Service (e-TIS) application (app) for helping adult smokers quit smoking with current practices.

Design

Pragmatic randomised controlled trial with a 1-year follow-up (2017-2018).

Setting

France, population-wide level.

Participants

2806 adult smokers who wished to quit smoking were recruited via the website of the French National Mandatory Health Insurance fund. Of them, 1400 were randomised to the e-TIS app arm and 1406 were randomised to the current practices arm (control).

Intervention

The app involved personalised interactive contacts that included questionnaires, advice, activities and text messages. All contacts were individually tailored and based on each smoker's progress.In the con

SUBMITTER: Affret A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7592285 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature