ArticlePsychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors2020
Live counselor contact in a Facebook intervention predicts smoking cessation outcomes.
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- Barriers and Facilitators of Tobacco Cessation Interventions at the Population and Healthcare System Levels: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Pooled it
- Elements Influencing User Engagement in Social Media Posts on Lifestyle Risk Factors: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- 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
- 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
- Smoking cessation message testing to inform app-based interventions for young adults - an online experiment.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Factors Associated With Abstinence Among Young Adult Smokers Enrolled in a Real-world Social Media Smoking Cessation Program.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Acceptability and Utility of a Smartphone App to Support Adolescent Mental Health (BeMe): Program Evaluation Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Article
- A pilot randomized controlled trial of automated and counselor-delivered text messages for e-cigarette cessation.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2023Article
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Abstract
Digital smoking cessation interventions frequently use automated delivery of content. Integrating a counselor may improve participant engagement and facilitate health behavior change. We investigated engagement with live counseling compared to automated content in a Facebook intervention and the impact of engagement on smoking cessation outcomes. The Tobacco Status Project is a 90-day smoking cessation intervention for young adults utilizing automated posts and weekly sessions with a live counselor in Facebook groups tailored to readiness to quit (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation). Data came from the treatment group of a randomized trial. Post-level analyses investigated participant engagement (number of comments) by post type (e.g., counselor posts or automated posts based on transtheoretical model of behavior change, clinical practice guidelines, motivational interviewing), stratified by readiness to quit. Participant-level analyses examined whether extent of participant engagement with counselor posts predicted abstinence at 3 months. We analyzed data of
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