The "Quit-for-Kids" Project: to Increase Abstinence and Protect Children From Tobacco Smoke Exposure

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2025-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This project aims to test the effectiveness of an integrated intervention of brief cessation advice (AWARD), Nicotine Replacement Therapy, and Instant Messaging support compared with waitlist control participants among adult daily smokers who lived with their children and non-smoking partners.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hong Kong residents aged 18 or above

• Smoke at least 1 tobacco stick (includes HTP) per day or use e-cigarette daily in the preceding 3-month and verified by exhaled carbon monoxide level of 4ppm (parts per million) or above, assessed by a validated Carbon monoxide Smokerlyzer®

• Living with at least one child of primary 6 or below (aged 12 or below)

• Living with at least one non-smoking family member

• Living in deprived households (monthly household income of less than the median of household monthly income in Hong Kong, HK$ 28,000, or living in subdivided flats or social housing)

• Able to communicate in Chinese (including reading Chinese in IM)

• Able to use the instant messaging tool (e.g., WhatsApp, WeChat) for communication

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who have communication barriers (either physically or cognitively)

• Those who are currently participating in other smoking cessation programmes or services