ArticleBMC public health2019
Smoking cessation with smartphone applications (SWAPP): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
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- Effectiveness of the QuitSure Smartphone App for Smoking Cessation: Findings of a Prospective Single Arm Trial.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Awareness and Needs of Smoking Cessation Services for Female Emotional Laborers, Parcel Delivery Workers, Transportation Workers, and Construction Workers in South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Update on Cyber Health Psychology: Virtual Reality and Mobile Health Tools in Psychotherapy, Clinical Rehabilitation, and Addiction Treatment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Digital Healthcare for Airway Diseases from Personal Environmental Exposure.Yonsei medical journal · 2022Review
- Are Machine Learning Methods the Future for Smoking Cessation Apps?Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Methods Used in Smoking Cessation and Reduction Attempts: Findings from Help-Seeking Smokers.Journal of smoking cessation · 2021Article
- Digital Health in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention: A Search for the Ideal Tool.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Effectiveness of mobile applications to quit smoking: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundTobacco smoking remains one of the biggest public health threats. Smartphone apps offer new promising opportunities for supporting smoking cessation in real-time. The social context of smokers has, however, been neglected in smartphone apps promoting smoking cessation. This randomized controlled trial investigates the effectiveness of a smartphone app in which smokers quit smoking with the help of a social network member.
methodsThis protocol describes the design of a single-blind, two-arm, parallel-group, intensive longitudinal randomized controlled trial. Participants of this study are adult smokers who smoke at least one cigarette per day and intend to quit smoking at a self-set quit date. Blocking as means of group-balanced randomization is used to allocate participants to intervention or control conditions. Both intervention and control group use a smartphone-compatible device for measuring their daily smoking behavior objectively via exhaled carbon monoxide. In addition, the intervention group is instructed to use the SmokeFree Buddy app, a multicomponent app that also facilitates smoking-cessation specific social support from a buddy over a smartphone application. All participants fill out a baseline diary for three consecutive days and are invited to the lab for a background assessment. They subsequently participate in an end-of-day diary phase from 7 days before and until 20 days after a self-set quit date. Six months after the self-set quit date a follow-up diary for three consecutive days takes place. The primary outcome measures are daily self-reported and objectively-assessed smoking abstinence and secondary outcome measures are daily self-reported number of cigarettes smoked. DISCUSSION: This is the first study examining the effectiveness of a smoking cessation mobile intervention using the SmokeFree Buddy app compared to a control group in a real-life setting around a self-set quit date using a portable objective measure to assess smoking abstinence. Opportunities and challenges with running studies with smoking participants and certain design-related decisions are discussed.
trial registrationThis trial was prospectively registered on 04/04/2018 at ISRCTNregistry: ISRCTN11154315 .
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