Mobile phone text messaging and app-based interventions for smoking cessation

Mobile phone-based interventions for smoking cessation.

BACKGROUND Innovative effective smoking cessation interventions are required to appeal to those who are not accessing traditional cessation services. Mobile phones are widely used and are now well integrated into the daily lives of many, particularly young adults. Mobile phones are a potential medium for the delivery of health programmes such as smoking cessation. OBJECTIVES To determine whet...

The efficacy of mobile phone-based text message interventions (‘Happy Quit’) for smoking cessation in China

BACKGROUND Considering the extreme shortage of smoking cessation services in China, and the acceptability, feasibility and efficacy of mobile phone-based text message interventions for quitting smoking in other countries, here we propose a study of "the efficacy of mobile phone-based text message interventions ('Happy Quit') for smoking cessation in China". The primary objective of this propose...

College smoking-cessation using cell phone text messaging.

Although rates of smoking among college-aged students continue to rise, few interventions that focus on college smokers' unique motivations and episodic smoking patterns exist. The authors developed and evaluated a prototype program targeting college students that integrates Web and cell phone technologies to deliver a smoking-cessation intervention. To guide the user through the creation and i...

A Smoking Cessation System Design Using Mobile Phone Text Messaging and Persuasive Technologies: A Pilot Study

Smoking cessation support delivered via mobile phone text messaging (txt2stop): a single-blind, randomised trial

BACKGROUND Smoking cessation programmes delivered via mobile phone text messaging show increases in self-reported quitting in the short term. We assessed the effect of an automated smoking cessation programme delivered via mobile phone text messaging on continuous abstinence, which was biochemically verified at 6 months. METHODS In this single-blind, randomised trial, undertaken in the UK, sm...