Trial reportJournal of medical Internet research2005
Comparing the efficacy of two Internet-based, computer-tailored smoking cessation programs: a randomized trial.
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84 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 212 citations in OpenAlex.
- Peer-Based Social Media Features in Behavior Change Interventions: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Pooled it
- Internet-based interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Internet-Delivered Health Interventions That Work: Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses and Evaluation of Website Availability.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Pooled it
- Internet-based randomized controlled trials: a systematic review.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2013Pooled it
- Interventions for recruiting smokers into cessation programmes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Persuasive features in web-based alcohol and smoking interventions: a systematic review of the literature.Journal of medical Internet research · 2011Pooled it
- Using the internet to promote health behavior change: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of theoretical basis, use of behavior change techniques, and mode of delivery on efficacy.Journal of medical Internet research · 2010Pooled it
- Computer-delivered interventions for health promotion and behavioral risk reduction: a meta-analysis of 75 randomized controlled trials, 1988-2007.Preventive medicine · 2008Pooled it
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- Sequential and simultaneous treatment approaches to cannabis use disorder and tobacco use.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2019Trial
- Internet and Telephone Treatment for smoking cessation: mediators and moderators of short-term abstinence.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2015Trial
- Novel incentives and messaging in an online college smoking intervention.American journal of health behavior · 2014Trial
- Netmums: a phase II randomized controlled trial of a guided Internet behavioural activation treatment for postpartum depression.Psychological medicine · 2014Trial
- Usage and effectiveness of a fully automated, open-access, Spanish Web-based smoking cessation program: randomized controlled trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Trial
- Smoking-cessation e-referrals: a national dental practice-based research network randomized controlled trial.American journal of preventive medicine · 2014Trial
- A randomized trial of an avatar-hosted multiple behavior change intervention for young adult smokers.Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs · 2013Trial
- Improving adherence to web-based cessation programs: a randomized controlled trial study protocol.Trials · 2013Trial
- Preventing smoking relapse via Web-based computer-tailored feedback: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2012Trial
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Abstract
backgroundOnline computer-tailored smoking cessation programs have not yet been compared directly.
objectiveTo compare the efficacy of two Internet-based, computer-tailored smoking cessation programs.
methodsRandomized controlled trial conducted in 2003-2004. Visitors to a smoking cessation website were randomly assigned to either an original online, interactive smoking cessation program or to a modified program. Both programs consisted of tailored, personalized counseling letters based on participants' characteristics, followed by monthly email reminders. The original program was based on psychological and addiction theory, and on preliminary research conducted in the same population. The modified program was shorter and contained more information on nicotine replacement therapy and nicotine dependence, and less information on health risks and coping strategies. In both programs, 1 month and 2 months after entering the study, participants were invited by email to answer the same tailoring questionnaire again in order to receive a second counseling letter. Participants in both programs obtained, on average, 1.2 feedback counseling letters over 2.5 months, and 84% received only 1 feedback letter. The outcome was self-reported smoking abstinence (no puff of tobacco in the previous 7 days), assessed 2.5 months after entry in the program. We report results from intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses, where all non-respondents at follow-up were counted as smokers.
resultsThe baseline questionnaire was answered by a total of 11969 current (74%) and former (26%) smokers, and the follow-up survey by 4237 people (35%). In an ITT analysis, abstinence rates in baseline current smokers were respectively 10.9% and 8.9% (odds ratio [OR]=1.24, 95% confidence interval [CI]1.08-1.43, P=.003) in the original and modified programs, and 25.2% and 15.7% (OR=1.81, CI 1.51-2.16, P<.001) in baseline former smokers. While we found statistically significant differences in quit rates in smokers in the contemplation stage favoring the original program (OR=1.54, CI 1.18-2.02, P=.002), no between-group differences in quit rates were observed in smokers in the precontemplation (OR=1.07, CI 0.36-3.14, P=.91) and preparation (OR=1.15, CI 0.97-1.37, P=.10) stages of change.
conclusionsIn smokers in the contemplation stage of change and in former smokers, the original program produced higher smoking abstinence rates than the modified program.
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