Effect of Technology-Assisted Brief Abstinence Game on Long-term Smoking Cessation in Individuals Not Yet Ready to Quit: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Most trials of behavioral or pharmaceutical interventions for people who smoke are limited to individuals reporting they are ready to quit smoking. Engaging individuals who initially report they are not yet ready to quit in brief, precessation, skills-building interventions (eg, practice quit attempts or nicotine replacement therapy [NRT] sampling) is challenging.

Objective

To test an integrated behavioral plus NRT-sampling intervention using a gamification approach supported by mobile health.

Design, setting, and participants

A multisite randomized clinical trial with site-level 1-to-1 allocation into 2 conditions was conducted in 4 US health care systems. A total of 433 individuals who were currently smoking and reported at enrollment that they were not r

SUBMITTER: Houston TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8787683 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature