To compare the efficacy of a targeted, tailored, and highly interactive smokeless tobacco cessation website to a website with more static information that is similar to websites that can be found through a typical Internet search.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,716
Intervention will provide a personalized, interactive tobacco cessation Web application, based on existing empirically validated smokeless tobacco cessation programs.
The Usual Care condition will provide access to typical smokeless tobacco cessation information and links to commonly available Web-based smokeless tobacco cessation resources.
Oregon Research Institute
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Abstinence from all tobacco
Time frame: 3 months and 6 months
Abstinence from smokeless tobacco
Time frame: 3 months and 6 months
Evaluate the relative effectiveness of the two programs on secondary outcomes, including reduction in smokeless tobacco use, number of quit attempts, and confidence in quitting.
Time frame: 3 months and 6 months
Identify participant characteristics, including demographic characteristics, initial smokeless tobacco use and dependence, and patterns of program use that predict treatment outcomes.
Time frame: 3 months and 6 months
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