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  • Automated care personalization is feasible with technology.
  • Effective personalization requires understanding individual differences in treatment response.
  • Investigating interactions between participant characteristics and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) effectiveness is crucial for smoking cessation.

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  • To examine if participant characteristics modify the effectiveness of different types and doses of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for smoking cessation.
  • To identify potential interactions between patient factors and NRT interventions to inform personalized treatment strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 33,077 smoking cessation program enrollments in Ontario, Canada.
  • Utilized ridge regression to model main effects and interactions between NRT types/doses and participant variables.
  • Compared model predictive accuracy using AUROC and IDI on a held-out test set; employed random forest multiple imputation for missing data.

Main Results:

  • A main effects model modestly predicted 6-month quit success (AUROC = 0.646).
  • A model including all interactions showed nearly identical predictive performance (AUROC = 0.640).
  • No statistically significant interactions were found between participant characteristics and NRT type or dose.

Conclusions:

  • Current evidence does not support meaningful variations in NRT effectiveness based on participant characteristics, type, or dose.
  • Personalization of smoking cessation interventions may still be possible through other means, such as general quit success likelihood or biological data.
  • Findings suggest a standardized approach to NRT may be broadly applicable for smoking cessation.