Mindfulness-based Smoking Cessation Enhanced With Mobile Technology

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2024-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to:

Aim I: Test the efficacy of a mindfulness-based text messaging program for smoking cessation ("iQuit Mindfully"), both as a standalone intervention and in combination with in-person counseling; and Aim II: Investigate the mechanisms through which mindfulness training impacts smoking cessation.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Georgia State University
• Collaborators: George Washington University; National Cancer Institute (NCI); University of Chicago; University of Utah
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• at least 18 years of age

• current smoker with history of >3 cigarettes/day (and expired carbon monoxide [CO] >6ppm)

• motivated to quit within next 30 days

• valid home address in the greater Atlanta, GA area

• functioning telephone number

• can speak, read, and write in English

Exclusion Criteria:

• contraindication for nicotine patch or nicotine lozenge

• active substance abuse/dependence or clinically significant depressive symptoms

• current use of tobacco cessation medications

• pregnancy, planning to become pregnant in the next 5 months, or lactation

• household member enrolled in the study

• enrolled in previous smoking cessation study based on mindfulness and/or text messaging at Georgia State University