Innovative Smartphone Application of a New Behavioral Method to Quit Smoking: Pilot Trial (Smart Quit)

Smoking Clinical Trial

Official title:

Innovative Smartphone Application of a New Behavioral Method to Quit Smoking: Pilot Randomized Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01812070
• Other study ID #: 7957
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 13, 2013
• Last updated: March 4, 2015
• Start date: March 2013
• Est. completion date: August 2013

Study information

• Verified date: March 2015
• Source: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This innovative study will compare a newly developed smartphone application for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to a smartphone application for traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

Description:

The study matches these National Cancer Institute (NCI) research funding priorities: (1) increasing the dissemination of smoking cessation treatments and (2) new treatment approaches to boost the effectiveness of cessation interventions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 196
• Est. completion date: August 2013
• Est. primary completion date: August 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• age 18 or older

• smokes at least five cigarettes daily for at least past 12 months

• wants to quit in the next 30 days

• interested in learning skills to quit smoking

• willing to be randomly assigned to either smartphone application

• resides in US

• has at least daily access to their own personal Apple iPhone 4, 4s, or 5

• knows how to login and download a smartphone application from Apple's "App Store" Store

• willing and able to read in English

• not participating in other smoking cessation interventions (including our other intervention studies)

• has never used the NCI's Quit Guide smartphone application.]

• willing to complete one follow-up survey

• provide email, phone, and mailing address.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The exclusion criteria are the opposite of the inclusion criteria above.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Smoking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• ACT

• CBT

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Seattle	Washington

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	University of Washington

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	7-day and 24-hour point prevalence quit rates		2 months post randomization	No