Text-Messaging Intervention for Quitting E-Cigarettes

Age: 18 - 65

Sex: Any

Trial Phase: Academic

Sponsor: Seok Hyun Gwon

Disqualifiers: Other tobacco products

No Placebo Group All trial participants will receive the active study treatment (no placebo)

Compensation: Varies

Number of Visits: Unknown

50 Participants Needed

Trial Summary

What is the purpose of this trial?

This is a small pilot randomized controlled trial to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the e-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention with young adults in rural areas.

Eligibility Criteria

This trial is for English-speaking young adults aged 18-24 who use e-cigarettes every day, own a mobile phone with texting and internet, know how to text, plan to quit vaping soon, and live in rural areas of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota or South Dakota.

Inclusion Criteria

I am between 18 and 24 years old.

Knowledge of how to use text messages

Ownership of a mobile phone or smartphone with texting and internet access abilities

Exclusion Criteria

Individuals who reported use of other tobacco products (e.g., cigarettes, smokeless tobacco) than e-cigarettes in the past month

Treatment Details

Interventions

• E-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention
• Standard care

Trial Overview The study is testing a new text-messaging program designed to help people stop using e-cigarettes. Participants will either receive standard care resources or the special text-message intervention. The trial aims to see if this method is workable and liked by users.

Participant Groups

Group I: Intervention (E-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention) Experimental Treatment 1 Intervention

Group II: Standard care (Standard care control using standard national resources) Active Control 1 Intervention

This standard care group will receive standard care resources from smokefree.gov.

Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?

Seok Hyun Gwon

Lead Sponsor

Trials

1

Recruited

50+