NCT05763771

Smartphone-delivered Scheduled Smoking With Compliance Facilitation as an Adjunct Cessation Therapy: a Feasibility Study

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To collect user experience data for a smartphone app that is designed to help people reduce or quit smoking and to learn if the app, combined with nicotine patches, can help people quit smoking.

Detailed description

Objectives: We propose to develop a mobile smoking intervention termed COmpliance-facilitated Scheduled Smoking Reduction (COSSR) delivered as a smartphone app. Through the proposed research as a pilot study, we want to identify the effect size of the proposed COSSR intervention. We will pursue the following aims: Aim 1: Develop the COSSR app and evaluate the app's usability. In this aim, our first objective is to develop the COSSR app, and our second objective is to evaluate the app's usability, making sure that our app's core features are working, such as generating personalized smoking schedules, recording smoking, and taking carbon monoxide (CO) measures using the portable CO devices. We will recruit 15 participants from across the state of Texas to test our app for 4 weeks. Aim 2: Evaluate COSSR's preliminary effects on smoking cessation. In this aim, we will recruit participants (n=60) remotely from across the entire state of Texas to evaluate COSSR's effects on smoking cessation. Participants will be randomly assigned to either the control or the COSSR group. Both groups include the usual care treatment (self-help material and nicotine patches). In the COSSR group, they will use the app to reduce their smoking before quitting, and use 3-week pre-cessation nicotine patches.

Conditions

• Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Smart Phone App	Collection of data
OTHER	NIcotine Patches	Place on the skin

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-15
• Primary completion: 2027-12-01
• Completion: 2027-12-01
• First posted: 2023-03-10
• Last updated: 2026-02-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States