Smartphone-delivered Scheduled Smoking with Compliance Facilitation As an Adjunct Cessation Therapy: a Feasibility Study

Description

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.

Conditions

Smoking

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Study overview

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.

Smartphone-delivered Scheduled Smoking with Compliance Facilitation As an Adjunct Cessation Therapy: a Feasibility Study

Smartphone-delivered Scheduled Smoking with Compliance Facilitation As an Adjunct Cessation Therapy: a Feasibility Study

Condition
Smoking
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Houston

M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Age: 18 years old or older
  • * Smoking: an average of 10 or more cigarettes, little cigars, or cigarillos combined per day within the past 30 days preceding the phone screen
  • * Expired carbon monoxide (CO): \> 6 ppm
  • * Can install and run the study app on their Android smartphone, or agree to use the study smartphone loaned from the research team
  • * Agree to return the study smartphone if the participant loans one from the research team
  • * Willing to reduce smoking (Aim 1)
  • * Seeking smoking cessation treatment (Aim 2)
  • * Fluency in spoken and written English
  • * Agree to be treated via telehealth (live audio-video conference and phone) and to be contacted via text and/or email
  • * Provide informed consent and agree to all assessments and study procedures
  • * Willing to refrain from the use of other nicotine/tobacco products for the duration of the study
  • * Willing to refrain from the use of marijuana, prescription medications not prescribed to the participant, and illegal drugs
  • * Taking psychotropic, anticonvulsive, or narcotic medication
  • * Meet criteria for a current major depressive episode or suicidality according to the PHQ
  • * Involved in current and imminent (within the next 45 days) smoking cessation activity
  • * Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding
  • * Shares the same address as a currently enrolled participant
  • * Unwilling to use or allergic to nicotine patches (Aim 2)
  • * Considered by the investigator to be an unsuitable or unstable candidate, such as those who appear to have cognitive impairment, and those who reside in a shelter, group/recovery facility, or treatment facility
  • * Any plans to move out of the state in the next 6 months
  • * Using marijuana, prescription medications not prescribed to the participant, and illegal drugs on a daily basis
  • * Have experienced abnormal heart rhythms or cardiovascular disease, such as stroke, chest pain, and heart attack, in the last month (Aim 2)

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,

Yong Cui, PHD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

2026-12-01