Effectiveness of an optimized text message and Internet intervention for smoking cessation: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To evaluate the effectiveness of a combined internet and text message intervention for smoking cessation compared with an internet intervention alone. The text message intervention was optimized for engagement in an earlier multiphase optimization (MOST) screening phase.

Design

A parallel, two-group, individually randomized clinical trial (RCT) was conducted in a MOST confirming phase. Recruitment spanned December 2018 to March 2019. Follow-up was conducted at 3 and 9 months, beginning March 2019 and ending January 2020.

Setting

United States: a digital study conducted among new registrants on a free tobacco cessation website.

Participants

Eligible individuals were 618 adult current smokers in the United States, age 18 years or older who signed up for text

SUBMITTER: Graham AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9293135 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature