Chatbots for Smoking Cessation: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite significant progress in reducing tobacco use over the past 2 decades, tobacco still kills over 8 million people every year. Digital interventions, such as text messaging, have been found to help people quit smoking. Chatbots, or conversational agents, are new digital tools that mimic instantaneous human conversation and therefore could extend the effectiveness of text messaging.

Objective

This scoping review aims to assess the extent of research in the chatbot literature for smoking cessation and provide recommendations for future research in this area.

Methods

Relevant studies were identified through searches conducted in Embase, MEDLINE, APA PsycINFO, Google Scholar, and Scopus, as well as additional searches on JMIR, Cochrane Library, Lancet Digi

SUBMITTER: Whittaker R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9514452 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature