iQuit Mindfully: Text Messaging for Smoking Cessation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-10-03
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate text messaging as a way to enhance mindfulness-based treatment for smoking cessation.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Georgia State University
• Collaborators: George Washington University; National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH); The Catholic University of America; University of Chicago; University of Utah
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• age 18-65 years

• current smoker with history of >5 cigarettes/day for past year (and expired carbon monoxide >6 parts per million [ppm])

• motivated to quit within next 30 days

• valid home address in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area

• functioning telephone number

• own a mobile phone with text messaging capacity

• can speak, read, and write in English

• at least a sixth-grade level of health literacy

Exclusion Criteria:

• contraindication for nicotine patch

• active substance abuse/dependence

• regular use of tobacco products other than cigarettes

• current use of tobacco cessation medications

• pregnancy or lactation

• household member enrolled in the study

• current diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, or use of antipsychotic medications

• clinically significant depressive symptoms