Internet and mobile phone text messaging intervention for college smokers
William Riley1, Jami Obermayer, Jersino Jean-Mary
1NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892-9615, USA. wiriley@mail.nih.gov
Objective:
The authors developed a smoking cessation program using mobile phone text messaging to provide tailored and stage-specific messages to college smokers.
Participants And Methods:
The authors recruited 31 daily smokers who desired to quit from a college campus and asked them to use an Internet and mobile phone text messaging program to quit smoking.
Results:
Six weeks after program initiation, 45% reported abstinence with 42% abstinent based on cotinine verification. Continued smokers reported significantly reduced smoking rates and dependence. Overall, participants accepted the text messages.
Conclusions:
These results replicate findings from an earlier study and indicate that mobile phone text messaging is a potentially efficacious and easily disseminated method for providing cessation interventions to young adult smokers.
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