Trial reportJournal of medical Internet research2011
Effect of tailoring in an internet-based intervention for smoking cessation: randomized controlled trial.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of interventions on smoking cessation: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.Addiction biology · 2024Pooled it
- Tailored Web-Based Smoking Interventions and Reduced Attrition: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- 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
- Interventions for recruiting smokers into cessation programmes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Mediated effects of a randomised control trial for a text messaging smoking cessation intervention for online help-seekers and primary care visitors.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- Comparing the Efficacy of an Identical, Tailored Smoking Cessation Intervention Delivered by Mobile Text Messaging Versus Email: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Trial
- User satisfaction with the structure and content of the NEXit intervention, a text messaging-based smoking cessation programme.BMC public health · 2016Trial
- Optimising text messaging to improve adherence to web-based smoking cessation treatment: a randomised control trial protocol.BMJ open · 2016Trial
- Use of an online smoking cessation community promotes abstinence: Results of propensity score weighting.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2015Trial
- Engagement with a social networking intervention for cancer-related distress.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2015Trial
- 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
- Use of non-assigned interventions in a randomized trial of internet and telephone treatment for smoking cessation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2014Trial
- Quit now? Quit soon? Quit when you're ready? Insights about target quit dates for smoking cessation from an online quit date tool.Journal of medical Internet research · 2014Trial
- Randomized controlled trial of MyLastDip: a Web-based smokeless tobacco cessation program for chewers ages 14-25.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Trial
- Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of Internet-based computer tailoring for smoking cessation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2013Trial
- The effectiveness of online smoking prevention program for adolescents in South Korea: a comparative analysis with traditional education.Korean journal of family medicine · 2026Article
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- Real-Life Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Delivery Modes: A Comparison Against Telephone Counseling and the Role of Individual Characteristics and Health Conditions in Quit Success.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundStudies suggest that tailored materials are superior to nontailored materials in supporting health behavioral change. Several trials on tailored Internet-based interventions for smoking cessation have shown good effects. There have, however, been few attempts to isolate the effect of the tailoring component of an Internet-based intervention for smoking cessation and to compare it with the effectiveness of the other components.
objectiveThe study aim was to isolate the effect of tailored emails in an Internet-based intervention for smoking cessation by comparing two versions of the intervention, with and without tailored content.
methodsWe conducted a two-arm, randomized controlled trial of the open and free Norwegian 12-month follow-up, fully automated Internet-based intervention for smoking cessation, slutta.no. We collected information online on demographics, smoking, self-efficacy, use of the website, and participant evaluation at enrollment and subsequently at 1, 3, and 12 months. Altogether, 2298 self-selected participants aged 16 years or older registered at the website between August 15, 2006 and December 7, 2007 and were randomly assigned to either a multicomponent, nontailored Internet-based intervention for smoking cessation (control) or a version of the same Internet-based intervention with tailored content delivered on the website and via email.
resultsOf the randomly assigned participants, 116 (of 419, response rate = 27.7%) in the intervention group and 128 (of 428, response rate = 29.9%) in the control group had participated over the 12 months and responded at the end of follow-up. The 7-day intention-to-treat abstinence rate at 1 month was 15.2% (149/982) among those receiving the tailored intervention, compared with 9.4% (94/999) among those who received the nontailored intervention (P < .001). The corresponding figures at 3 months were 13.5% (122/902) and 9.4% (84/896, P =.006) and at 12 months were 11.2% (47/419) and 11.7% (50/428, P = .91). Likewise, the intervention group had higher self-efficacy and perceived tailoring at 1 and 3 months. Self-efficacy was found to partially mediate the effect of the intervention.
conclusionTailoring an Internet-based intervention for smoking cessation seems to increase the success rates in the short term, but not in the long term.
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