Predicting Early Dropout in a Digital Tobacco Cessation Intervention: Replication and Extension Study.

Background: Detecting early dropout from digital interventions is crucial for developing strategies to enhance user retention and improve health-related behavioral outcomes. Bricker and colleagues proposed a single metric that accurately predicted early dropout from 4 digital tobacco cessation interventions based on log-in data in the initial week after registration. Generalization of this method to additional interventions and modalities would strengthen confidence in the approach and facilitate additional research drawing on it to increase user retention.

A Vaping Cessation Text Message Program for Adolescent E-Cigarette Users: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: E-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among adolescents. Despite known harms of nicotine exposure among teens, there are no empirically tested vaping cessation interventions.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of a text message program for nicotine vaping cessation among adolescents with assessment-only control.

Changes over time in reasons for quitting vaping among treatment-seeking young people from 2019 to 2022.

Objectives: The landscape of availability, policies, and norms around e-cigarette use and cessation has changed rapidly in the last few years. There is also high interest in quitting vaping among teens and young adults. Understanding the motivation of those who want to quit vaping is important for effective intervention development.

E-cigarette cessation interest and quit attempts among young adults reporting exclusive e-cigarette use or dual use with other tobacco products: How can we reach them?

Introduction: There is limited evidence to inform e-cigarette quitting interventions. This mixed-methods study examined: 1) e-cigarette and other tobacco product perceptions and cessation-related factors; and 2) potential behavioral intervention strategies among young adults reporting exclusive e-cigarette use or dual use with other tobacco products.

Methods: We analyzed Fall 2020 survey data from 726 participants reporting past 6-month e-cigarette use (mean age=24.

The Role of Seed Users in Nurturing an Online Health Community for Smoking Cessation Among People With HIV/AIDS.

Background: To nurture a new online community for health behavior change, a fruitful strategy is to recruit "seed users" to create content and encourage participation.

Purpose: This study evaluated the impact of support from seed users in an online community for smoking cessation among people living with HIV/AIDS and explored the linguistic characteristics of their interactions.

Methods: These secondary analyses examined data from a randomized trial of a smoking cessation intervention for HIV+ smokers delivered via an online health community (OHC).

Co-use of cigarettes and cannabis among people with HIV: Results from a randomized controlled smoking cessation trial.

Significance: People with HIV (PWH) who smoke cigarettes have lower cessation rates than the general population. This study investigated whether changes in cannabis use frequency impedes cigarette cessation among PWH who are motivated to quit.

Methods: Between 2016-2020, PWH who smoked cigarettes were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial for cigarette cessation.

Effect of Messaging Content on Engagement With a Short Messaging Service for Perioperative Smoking Cessation.

Introduction: We determined whether a tobacco cessation intervention targeting brief perioperative abstinence ("quit for a bit") increased engagement of surgical patients with treatment compared with an intervention targeting long-term postoperative abstinence ("quit for good").

Aims And Methods: Surgical patients who smoke were stratified according to intended duration of postoperative abstinence, and then randomized within strata to receive either a "quit for a bit" or a "quit for good" intervention. Both employed initial brief counseling and short message service (SMS) to deliver treatment up to 30 days after surgery.

A pilot randomized controlled trial of automated and counselor-delivered text messages for e-cigarette cessation.

Introduction: Automated text messaging programs show promise for e-cigarette cessation. Adding live text counseling could make them more engaging. We developed Quit the Vape (QTV), an automated e-cigarette cessation text messaging program, designed to be delivered as stand-alone or with counselor-delivered messages (QTV-C), and evaluated the acceptability and preliminary efficacy of QTV and QTV-C.

Tailored text message and web intervention for smoking cessation in U.S. socioeconomically-disadvantaged young adults: A randomized controlled trial.

The prevalence of cigarette smoking in young adults is higher among those with socioeconomic disadvantage than those without. Low treatment-seeking among young adult smokers is compounded by few efficacious smoking cessation interventions for this group, particularly socioeconomically-disadvantaged young adults (SDYA) who smoke cigarettes. The goal of this study was to test a tailored smoking-cessation intervention for SDYA.

E-cigarette and combusted tobacco abstinence among young adults: Secondary analyses from a U.S.-based randomized controlled trial of vaping cessation.

Objective: To examine patterns of abstinence from e-cigarettes, combusted tobacco products (CTPs), both, or neither among young adults enrolled in a U.S.-based randomized trial of a text message vaping cessation intervention.

Randomized Trial of a Web-Based Tobacco Treatment and Online Community Support for People With HIV Attempting to Quit Smoking Cigarettes.

Background: Persons with HIV (PWH) in the United States (US) smoke cigarettes at approximately triple the rate of the general adult population and are less successful in their quit attempts than other smokers. This randomized trial tested whether a novel web-based cessation program for PWH yielded higher cigarette quit rates compared with a control program.

Setting: Two urban HIV care sites in NYC and Baltimore.

Delivery of smoking cessation treatment via live chat: An analysis of client-centered coaching skills and behavior change techniques.

Objective: This qualitative study explored whether evidence-based tobacco cessation treatment components can be deployed via web-based live chat coaching.

Methods: N = 100 randomly selected chats were coded. Researchers used a structured coding guide to note the presence of 3 Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills and 61 behavior change techniques (BCTs).

Using Protection Motivation Theory to Predict Intentions for Breast Cancer Risk Management: Intervention Mechanisms from a Randomized Controlled Trial.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the direct and indirect effects of a web-based, Protection Motivation Theory (PMT)-informed breast cancer education and decision support tool on intentions for risk-reducing medication and breast MRI among high-risk women. Women with ≥ 1.67% 5-year breast cancer risk (N = 995) were randomized to (1) control or (2) the PMT-informed intervention.

Effect of a Randomized Trial of a Web-Based Intervention on Patient-Provider Communication About Breast Density.

Breast density increases breast cancer risk and decreases mammographic detection. We evaluated a personalized web-based intervention designed to improve breast cancer risk communication between women and their providers. This was a secondary outcome analysis of an online randomized trial.

E-cigarette device and liquid characteristics and E-cigarette dependence: A pilot study of pod-based and disposable E-cigarette users.

Background: E-cigarette device and liquid characteristics, such as electrical power output and liquid nicotine concentration, determine the rate at which nicotine is emitted from the e-cigarette (i.e., nicotine flux), and thus are likely to influence user nicotine dependence.

Effectiveness of an optimized text message and Internet intervention for smoking cessation: A randomized controlled trial.

Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of a combined internet and text message intervention for smoking cessation compared with an internet intervention alone. The text message intervention was optimized for engagement in an earlier multiphase optimization (MOST) screening phase.

Design: A parallel, two-group, individually randomized clinical trial (RCT) was conducted in a MOST confirming phase.

Effectiveness of a Vaping Cessation Text Message Program Among Young Adult e-Cigarette Users: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: e-Cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among young adults (YAs). Despite the harms of nicotine exposure among YAs, there are few, if any, empirically tested vaping cessation interventions available.

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a text message program for vaping cessation among YAs vs assessment-only control.

A synthesis of the literature to inform vaping cessation interventions for young adults.

There is an urgent need to address young adult (YA) vaping. However, there is limited vaping cessation intervention research, particularly studies tested via experimental designs. This manuscript focuses on YA vaping and critical needs for research to advance vaping cessation interventions for YAs.

Vaping in the Workplace: Awareness and Support for E-cigarette Workplace Policies.

Clean indoor air policies have been an important tool protecting the health of working adults. The purpose of this study was to examine awareness of and support for e-cigarette-free workplace policies among working adults in the United States. Employees of companies with at least 150 employees (N = 1607, ages 18-65 years) were recruited from an opt-in national panel for an online survey.

Effect of Personalized Breast Cancer Risk Tool on Chemoprevention and Breast Imaging: ENGAGED-2 Trial.

Background: Limited evidence exists about how to communicate breast density-informed breast cancer risk to women at elevated risk to motivate cancer prevention.

Methods: We conducted a randomized controlled trial evaluating a web-based intervention incorporating personalized breast cancer risk, information on chemoprevention, and values clarification on chemoprevention uptake vs active control. Eligible women aged 40-69 years with normal mammograms and elevated 5-year breast cancer risk were recruited from Kaiser Permanente Washington from February 2017 to May 2018.

Engaging People in Tobacco Prevention and Cessation: Reflecting Back Over 20 Years Since the Master Settlement Agreement.

Over the past 20 years, tobacco prevention and cessation efforts have evolved to keep pace with the changing tobacco product landscape and the widespread adoption of digital technologies. In 2019, Truth Initiative was awarded the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Jessie Gruman Award for Health Engagement in recognition of the major role it has played on both fronts since its inception in 1999. This manuscript reviews the challenges and opportunities that have emerged over the past two decades, the evolving tactics deployed by Truth Initiative to engage people in tobacco prevention and cessation efforts, the approaches used to evaluate those efforts, and key achievements.

Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Religiously-Tailored Text Messaging Intervention to Reduce Smoking Among Somali Muslim Men During Ramadan.

Introduction: The prevalence of smoking among Somali Muslim male immigrants residing in Minnesota is estimated at 44%, however smoking reduction is common during the month of Ramadan. This study evaluated the feasibility and impact of a religiously tailored text message intervention delivered during Ramadan to encourage smoking reduction among Somali Muslim men who smoke.

Methods: Fifty Somali men were recruited.

Vaping in the Workplace: Prevalence and Attitudes Among Employed US Adults.

Objective: Describe workplace vaping, prevalence of observed use, attitudes, and perceptions among US adults.

Methods: Employees of companies with more than 150 employees, drawn from an opt-in national online panel (N = 1607), ages 18 to 65, completed an online survey in November 2019.

Results: Majority (61.