The goal of this research study is to test how well an automated text messaging smoking treatment program helps smokers with HIV quit smoking.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
800
An interactive smartphone based intervention will provide weekly smoking-related assessments and personalized automated messages designed to increase motivation, self-efficacy, use of coping skills, social support and to reduce nicotine withdrawal symptoms and stress for a 26 week period.
Participants will be provided with a 8 week supply of nicotine patches
Participants will receive self-help materials from Khmer Quit Now, a national smoking cessation campaign in Cambodia
National AIDS Authority
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
RECRUITINGNational Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
RECRUITINGNational Institute of Public Health
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
RECRUITINGSelf Reported 7 Day Abstinence Smoking Status
Participants will self report 7-day abstinence smoking status
Time frame: 12 Month Follow-Up
Smoking Status by Expired Carbon Monoxide
Investigators will use a CO monitor to verify smoking status biochemically
Time frame: 12 Month Follow-up
Self Reported 7 Day Abstinence Smoking Status at 3 Months
Participants will self report 7-day abstinence smoking status
Time frame: At 3 Months
Smoking Status by Expired Carbon Monoxide at 3 Months
Investigators will use a CO monitor to verify smoking status biochemically
Time frame: At 3 Months
Self Reported 7 Day Abstinence Smoking Status at 6 Months
Participants will self report 7-day abstinence smoking status
Time frame: At 6 Months
Smoking Status by Expired Carbon Monoxide at 6 Months
Investigators will use a CO monitor to verify smoking status biochemically
Time frame: At 6 Months
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Participants will be asked to complete brief weekly smartphone assessments about their diet for a 26-week period