NCT02191033

Text Messaging for Smoking Cessation in College Health Clinics

Text Messaging to Augment Physician Brief Advice for Smoking Cessation in College Health Clinics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 24 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is a randomized-controlled clinical trial which evaluates the efficacy of physician brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy and a 6-week course of text messaging in promoting cigarette smoking in smokers enrolled in college. The primary hypothesis is that smokers receiving physician brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy, and text messaging will have higher quit rates that smokers receiving physician brief advice and nicotine replacement therapy alone.

Conditions

• Cigarette Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Smoking counseling
BEHAVIORAL	Text messaging
DRUG	Nicotine patch

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2014-07-15
• Last updated: 2020-04-01
• Results posted: 2017-06-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States