Quitxt Mobile Text Messaging Cessation Research Study - Trial NCT05958667

Timeline & Enrollment

Primary Outcome

Smoking cessation

Summary

The health benefits of smoking cessation by age 30 are much greater than cessation later in
 life, including gaining 10 years of life, compared with those who continue to smoke. The goal
 of the proposed study is to evaluate the effectiveness of our bilingual and culturally
 tailored Quitxt mobile cessation intervention. Quitxt provides interactive messages through
 texts or chat with visual and video content employing theory- and evidence-based techniques
 to prompt and sustain cessation. We will recruit 1,200 Latino young adult smokers aged 18-29
 who enroll and agree to make quit attempts, with half randomly assigned (like flipping a
 coin) to receive Quitxt and half to abbreviated text messages with smoking cessation-related
 content and referral to the Texas Department of State Health Services cessation program Yes
 Quit (which has diverse formats, but not explicitly tailored for young Latino adults in South
 Texas). Participants respond to baseline and follow-up assessments at one, three and six
 months after their enrollment, and those who report cessation will be asked to provide saliva
 samples to confirm they quit smoking. Our sample size will be sufficient to detect expected
 higher cessation rates in those who are enrolled in Quitxt than those who are enrolled in
 Texas DSHS Yes Quit. We will publish our results in scientific journals, report them at
 scientific and community meetings, share them on social media, and publicize them widely.
 This study has the potential to advance public health by evaluating the effectiveness of a
 scalable, easily disseminated and adaptable intervention to help young adults, especially
 Latinos, quit smoking and reduce smoking-related cancer and chronic disease morbidity and
 mortality and their associated healthcare costs.

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