StepOne Smartphone Application: This smartphone application provides a 14-day program that delivers the core components of smoking cessation (i.e., counseling, education) and takes advantage of pandemic-accelerated acceptance of virtual care, videoconferencing, remote monitoring, and social networking. The program seeks to move participants from the pre-action stage (not interested in quitting) to the action stage (intention to quit) and incorporates daily reminders, gamification, and models of habit formation to engage users.
Study summary
Prospective, randomized, single-blinded, blinded-endpoint trial to determine the impact of a smartphone application-based program to motivate smokers to increase readiness to quit, make quit attempts, and quit smoking.
Eligibility
Sex
ALL
Min age
18 Years
Max age
—
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria:
* 18 years of age or older.
* Living in Ontario, Canada.
* Current smoker who indicates they are not interested in quitting within the next 30-days.
* Have access to and regularly use a smartphone with internet access.
* Read, write, speaks English or French.
* Available and willing to participate in follow-up assessments over the next 6 months.
* Able to provide consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Planning on quitting smoking within the next 30-days.
* Cognitively impaired or experiencing acute psychiatric illness that would alter their ability to participate.
* Institutionalized at a retirement home, nursing home or long-term care facility.
* Has morbid illness which will prevent completion of 6-month follow-up (e.g., receiving palliative care).
* Participating in another smoking cessation program
Primary outcome measure(s)
Self-reported readiness to quit — Day 14 Collected via survey
Self-reported readiness to quit — Day 45 Collected via survey
Self-reported readiness to quit — Day 195 Collected via survey
Having made a quit attempt — Day 14 Collected via survey
Having made a quit attempt — Day 45 Collected via survey
Having made a quit attempt — Day 195 Collected via survey
Rate of smoking cessation — Day 45 for participants who report smoking cessation Biochemically verified using an expired carbon monoxide (CO) test
Rate of smoking cessation — Day 195 for participants who report smoking cessation Biochemically verified using an expired carbon monoxide (CO) test
Trial sites (1)
Facility
City
Region
Status
The University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Ottawa
Ontario
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