NCT05777005

Promoting Smoking Cessation in Campus

Promoting Smoking Cessation in Campus Via Smoking Cessation Contest: a Chatbot-based Smoking Cessation Intervention

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Beijing Normal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to explore the feasibility, preliminary effectiveness, and implementation outcomes of chatbot-led smoking cessation support in community smokers.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation
• Mobile Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	5A's/5R's advice	5A's (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, Arrange) for smokers who are ready to quit, and 5R's (relevance, risks, rewards, roadblocks, and repetition) for smokers who are not ready to quit.
OTHER	Brief leaflet on health warning and smoking cessation	The contents of the leaflet include the absolute risk of smoking, diseases caused by active and second-hand smoking, horrible pictorial warnings of the health consequences of active and second-hand smoking, and the benefits of quitting.
OTHER	Self-help smoking cessation booklet	The contents include information about the benefits of quitting, methods to quit, how to handle withdrawal symptoms, misperceptions of quitting, etc.
BEHAVIORAL	Counselor-led individual support	Participants will receive three months of counselor-led individual support via WeChat. The regular messages and instant messaging on psychosocial support aim to provide cessation advice, increase self-efficacy and confidence, and social support and behavioral capacity of quitting.
BEHAVIORAL	Chatbot-led group support	Participants will receive three months of chatbot-led group support via WeChat.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-06
• Primary completion: 2024-06-30
• Completion: 2024-12-30
• First posted: 2023-03-20
• Last updated: 2024-08-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China