NCT07390695

The Researchers Would Like to Conduct a Trial Using Gamified Exercise to Increase Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Intention to Quit Smoking Among Hardcore Smokers Who Are Also Physically Inactive.

Gamified Exercise for Hardcore Smokers: A Quasi-Experimental Protocol for Improving Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Smoking Cessation

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Gadjah Mada University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 17 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this quasi-experiment is to learn if a gamified exercise works to improve cardiorespiratory fitness in physically inactive hardcore smokers. It will also learn about the effects of smoking cessation. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does a gamification of a structured training program improve the cardiorespiratory fitness and smoking cessation behavior among smokers? * Is there any mediating effect from the level of physical activity between a gamified exercise and cardiorespiratory fitness? * Will the smokers engage in the gamified exercise within the 12-week intervention? This is a no-control group. The quasi-experiment will be conducted within one group (paired data).

Conditions

• Cardiorespiratory Fitness or Endurance
• Smoking Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Gamification of a structured exercise program	A structured exercise program with FITT-VP principles is gamified and delivered to 60 physically inactive hardcore smokers.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-09-01
• Primary completion: 2026-06-01
• Completion: 2026-09-01
• First posted: 2026-02-05
• Last updated: 2026-02-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Indonesia