The development and acceptability testing of an app-based smart survey system to record smoking behaviour, use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and e-cigarettes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) helps people stop smoking. Monitoring treatment adherence is important as poor adherence to NRT limits its effectiveness. As e-cigarettes contain nicotine, their use ('vaping') is likely to affect both NRT use and smoking. We wished to measure adherence to NRT, and to investigate relationships between NRT, vaping and smoking so we developed 'NicUse', a smartphone App linked to a cloud database for collecting data relevant to NRT adherence. We report user-acceptability and investigate data validity among pregnant people by comparing heaviness of smoking reported to NicUse surveys with contemporaneous exhaled carbon monoxide readings.

Results

Thirty five pregnant women participating in a pilot study were asked to install and use Nic

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8908557 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature