NCT02103829

"Quit Smoking on Your Own" Brief Online Study

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 345 (actual)
• Sponsor: i4Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Most individuals who smoke want to quit smoking. Most individuals who want to quit, quit on their own. The purpose of this study is to determine whether very brief suggestions provided online are comparatively more effective than others in increasing motivation to quit immediately after the suggestions are implemented and actual quit rates one month later. There are no costs associated with participating in this study and participants will not be compensated for their participation. To join the study paste the following link into your browser: https://www.i4health-pau.org/quit-smoking-on-your-own The entire study takes place online on an automated website.

Detailed description

Participants will be recruited online using search engine ads (e.g., Google), online association list serves, community websites designed to reach individuals interested in participating in research studies, and social media sites related to smoking cessation efforts. The entire study will be administered online. Participants may complete it at a time and place of their convenience. To join the study paste the following link into your browser: https://www.i4health-pau.org/quit-smoking-on-your-own The website will automatically obtain consent, ask 16 brief questions as a pre-test, randomize to 4 very brief interventions, ask 4 post-test questions, and at 1-month follow-up, send an email with a link to a 6-question survey. The initial online session is expected to take between 3 and 8 minutes and the 1-month follow-up survey less than 2 minutes.

Conditions

• Cigarette Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief Intervention #1	Brief online suggestion intended to increase the likelihood of quitting smoking that takes less than 1 minute to complete.
BEHAVIORAL	Brief Intervention #2	Brief online suggestion intended to increase the likelihood of quitting smoking that takes less than 1 minute to complete.
BEHAVIORAL	Brief Intervention #3	Brief online suggestion intended to increase the likelihood of quitting smoking that takes less than 7 minutes to complete.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-02-01
• Completion: 2016-09-01
• First posted: 2014-04-04
• Last updated: 2016-09-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States