Trial reportHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2015
Use of an online smoking cessation community promotes abstinence: Results of propensity score weighting.
Trial report in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00282009 (Internet and Telephone Counseling for Smoking Cessation), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Internet and Telephone Counseling for Smoking Cessation
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 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
- Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Internet-based interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Impact of Weight Concern on Post-Cessation Weight Management, Smoking Cessation, and Program Engagement.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2024Trial
- Facebook Intervention to Connect Alaska Native People With Resources and Support to Quit Smoking: CAN Quit Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Trial
- Outcomes of a Comprehensive Mobile Smoking Cessation Program With Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Adult Smokers: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Trial
- 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
- Improving Adherence to Smoking Cessation Treatment: Smoking Outcomes in a Web-based Randomized Trial.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2018Trial
- Online community use predicts abstinence in combined Internet/phone intervention for smoking cessation.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016Trial
- Optimising text messaging to improve adherence to web-based smoking cessation treatment: a randomised control trial protocol.BMJ open · 2016Trial
- Initial assessment of a novel smoking cessation program integrating app-based behavioral therapy and an electronic cigarette: results of a pilot study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Exploring the Incentive Function of Virtual Academic Degrees in a Chinese Online Smoking Cessation Community: Qualitative Content Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Social media for tobacco smoking cessation intervention: a review of the literature.Current addiction reports · 2019Article
- Mining User-Generated Content in an Online Smoking Cessation Community to Identify Smoking Status: A Machine Learning Approach.Decision support systems · 2019Article
- Conversation Within a Facebook Smoking Cessation Intervention Trial For Young Adults (Tobacco Status Project): Qualitative Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2018Article
- Who are mobile app users from healthy lifestyle websites? Analysis of patterns of app use and user characteristics.Translational behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- The failure to increase social support: it just might be time to stop intervening (and start rigorously observing).Translational behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Weekly enrollment and usage patterns in an Internet smoking cessation intervention.Internet interventions · 2017Article
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- Temporal Trends of Psychosociobehavioral Factors Underlying Tobacco Use: A Semi-Automated Exploratory Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Communication in a Health-Related Online Community.Studies in health technology and informatics · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe estimated the causal effects of use of an online smoking cessation community on 30-day point prevalence abstinence at 3 months.
methodsParticipants (N = 492) were adult current smokers in the enhanced Internet arm of The iQUITT Study, a randomized trial of Internet and telephone treatment for smoking cessation. All participants accessed a Web-based smoking-cessation program that included a large, established online community. Automated tracking metrics of passive (e.g., reading forum posts, viewing member profiles) and active (e.g., writing forum posts, sending private messages) community use were extracted from the site at 3 months. Self-selected community use defines the groups of interest: "None," "Passive," and "Both" (passive + active). Inverse probability of treatment weighting corrected for baseline imbalances on demographic, smoking, psychosocial, and medical history variables. Propensity weights estimated via generalized boosted models were used to calculate Average Treatment Effects (ATE) and Average Treatment effects on the Treated (ATT).
resultsPatterns of community use were: None = 198 (40.2%), Passive = 110 (22.4%), and Both = 184 (37.4%). ATE-weighted abstinence rates were: None = 4.2% (95% CI = 1.5-6.9); Passive = 15.1% (95% CI = 8.4-21.9); Both = 20.4% (95% CI = 13.9-26.8). ATT-weighted abstinence rates indicated even greater benefits of community use.
conclusionsCommunity users were more likely to quit smoking at 3 months than nonusers. The estimated benefit from use of online community resources was even larger among subjects with high propensity to use them. No differences in abstinence emerged between passive and passive/active users. Results suggest that lurking in online communities confers specific abstinence benefits. Implications of these findings for online cessation communities are discussed.
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