WeChat Quit Coach Pilot Study

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-07-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The study team will develop and assess the feasibility and acceptability of a social media-based text messaging smoking cessation intervention targeting Chinese immigrant smokers in New York City (NYC). For Aim 1, the study team will develop a message library for the WeChat Quit Coach smoking cessation program and conduct in-depth interviews with 20 Chinese immigrant smokers in person to assess content relevance. For Aim 2, a two-arm, open-labeled, pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted to test the feasibility and acceptability of the WeChat Quit Coach intervention among 50 Chinese immigrant smokers. Participants will be randomized to intervention (n=25) or control group (n=25). Participants in the intervention group will receive a 6-week WeChat Quit Coach intervention through WeChat private group. Participants in the control group will receive a weekly 1-item WeChat text assessment on smoking status for 6 weeks. All the 50 participants will be offered a 4-week supple of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) patches and lozenge. Participants will complete a baseline in-person survey at enrollment and a 6-week follow-up phone survey immediately after the intervention. Biochemical test (exhaled carbon monoxide test) will be conducted to confirm abstinence among those who report no smoking in past 7-day at 6-week follow-up survey. Post-test in-depth interviews will be conducted with 15 participants in person from the intervention group to obtain more information about the usability and perceptions about the WeChat Quit Coach program.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: NYU Langone Health
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age 18-65 years

2. Chinese immigrant

3. Have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in a lifetime

4. Smoke ≥3 days per week

5. Be interested in quitting smoking

6. Has a Smartphone

7. Current WeChat user who uses WeChat on ≥3 days per week

8. Live in NYC

9. Can read Chinese and speak mandarin

10. Be able to provide consent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Current participation in other smoking cessation treatment program(s)

2. Be pregnant or breastfeeding