Trial reportBMC public health2015
The Tobacco Status Project (TSP): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a Facebook smoking cessation intervention for young adults.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 39 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Social Media Intervention for Young Adult Smokers
A Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers
An Extended Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers
Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Behavioural interventions delivered through interactive social media for health behaviour change, health outcomes, and health equity in the adult population.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Systematic review of social media interventions for smoking cessation.Addictive behaviors · 2017Pooled it
- Internet-based interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Mobile phone-based interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Boosting Smoking Cessation Intervention Utilization in Chinese Health Care Providers: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the "WeChat WeQuit" Medical Education Program.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Trial
- Lessons Learned From Beta-Testing a Facebook Group Prototype to Promote Treatment Use in the "Connecting Alaska Native People to Quit Smoking" (CAN Quit) Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Smoking cessation, metabolic risk behaviors, and stress management over time in a sample of young adult smokers.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Connectedness Based on Shared Engagement Predicts Remote Biochemically Verified Quit Status Within Smoking Cessation Treatment Groups on Facebook.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Trial
- The Put It Out Project (POP) Facebook Intervention for Young Sexual and Gender Minority Smokers: Outcomes of a Pilot, Randomized, Controlled Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2020Trial
- Multiple Health Risk Behaviors in Young Adult Smokers: Stages of Change and Stability over Time.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2020Trial
- Smoking cessation intervention trial outcomes for sexual and gender minority young adults.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2019Trial
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- App-Based Smoking Urge Reduction Intervention for Young Adults: Protocol Combining a Microrandomized Trial and Conventional Between-Subject Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Planning for successful participant recruitment and retention in trials of behavioural interventions: Feasibility randomised controlled trial of the Wrapped intervention.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Wiidookaage'win: Beta-test of a Facebook group intervention for Native women to support opioid use recovery.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- A Christian Faith-Based Facebook Intervention for Smoking Cessation in Rural Communities (FAITH-CORE): Protocol for a Community Participatory Development Study.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Delivering vaping cessation interventions to adolescents and young adults on Instagram: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Characterizing Participant Perceptions about Smoking-Cessation Pharmacotherapy and E-Cigarettes from Facebook Smoking-Cessation Support Groups.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Factors associated with readiness to quit smoking among young adults enrolled in a Facebook-based tobacco and alcohol intervention study.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Live counselor contact in a Facebook intervention predicts smoking cessation outcomes.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundTobacco use remains the leading cause of premature morbidity and mortality in the United States. Young adults are less successful at quitting, use cessation treatment less often than smokers of other ages, and can be a challenge to retain in treatment. Social media, integrated into the lives of many young adults, represents a promising strategy to deliver evidence-based smoking cessation treatment to a large, diverse audience. The goal of this trial is to test the efficacy of a stage-based smoking cessation intervention on Facebook for young adults age 18 to 25 on smoking abstinence, reduction in cigarettes smoked, and thoughts about smoking abstinence. METHODS/
designThis is a randomized controlled trial. Young adult smokers throughout the United States are recruited online and randomized to either the 3 month Tobacco Status Project intervention on Facebook or a referral to a smoking cessation website. The intervention consists of assignment to a secret Facebook group tailored to readiness to quit smoking (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation), daily Facebook contacts tailored to readiness to quit smoking, weekly live counseling sessions, and for those in preparation, weekly Cognitive Behavioral Therapy counseling sessions on Facebook. Primary outcome measure is biochemically-verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence from smoking at posttreatment (3 months), 6, and 12 months. Secondary outcome measures are reduction of 50 % or more in cigarettes smoked, 24 h quit attempts, and commitment to abstinence at each time point. A secondary aim is to test, within the TSP condition, the effect of a monetary incentive at increasing engagement in the intervention. DISCUSSION: This randomized controlled trial is testing a novel Facebook intervention for treating young adults' tobacco use. If efficacious, the social media intervention could be disseminated widely and expanded to address additional health risks.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02207036 , May 13, 2014.
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