NCT01103427

Usefulness of Supportive SMS in Addition to an Internet Based Quit Smoking Program (Www.Slutta.no)

Mobile Text Messaging as an Adjunct Function to an Internet-based Smoking Cessation Intervention Implemented in the General Population and in a Health Care Setting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4,300 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Tromso · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of a smoking cessation intervention delivered through a technological web based platform (www.slutta.no) with or without a supportive SMS function.

Detailed description

The study has two arms and are conducted in Norwegian. Users who registered with a new username on www.slutta.no, after study start May 12th 2010 and before November 1st 2012, are eligible. All phases of the trial, from randomization and informed consent procedures to data collection, are automated and conducted online. The following inclusion criteria are used: age 16 years or older, access to a mobile phone with a Norwegian phone number and they must submit an informed consent form.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Internet-based behavioral coaching	Those in the "active comparator arm" will benefit from automated coaching by e-mails with advice, information and support for smoking cessation. These e-mails will be adapted to their personal profile.
DEVICE	SMS based coaching	Those in the experimental SMS based coaching arm will benefit from automated coaching by SMS with advice, information and support for smoking cessation. These SMS's will be adapted to their personal profile.
DEVICE	SMS coaching - UNN recruited	Those in the experimental SMS based coaching arm- UNN recruited - will benefit from automated coaching by SMS with advice, information and support for smoking cessation. These SMS's will be adapted to their personal profile.
DEVICE	SMS craving function - UNN recruited	Those in the experimental SMS based craving/panic function arm - will in addition to the automated coaching by SMS have a panic/craving SMS function. Thus by sending a SMS they will receive instant advise and support for smoking cessation by SMS.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2012-10-01
• First posted: 2010-04-14
• Last updated: 2013-12-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway