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

What You Need to Know Before You Apply

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.

Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?

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

Knowledge of how to use text messages

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

English speaking

Exclusion Criteria

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

Timeline for a Trial Participant

Screening

Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial

2-4 weeks

Intervention

Participants receive the e-cigarette cessation text-messaging intervention

1 month

Follow-up

Participants are monitored for retention rates, acceptability, and nicotine dependence

1 month

What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?

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.

How Is the Trial Designed?

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+