APPSPIRE App in Preventing Students From Smoking

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cigarette Smoker, Current Every Day Smoker, Student

In brief

This trial studies how well APPSPIRE, a smartphone app, works in preventing students from smoking. Technology-driven intervention programs, such as the APPSPIRE app, have the potential to increase access to health behavior treatments and therapies, such as tobacco cessation support, and provide effective prevention messaging.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01967082

Run by

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

People needed

30

Starts

2013-10-16

Expected to finish

2020-01-08

Last updated by the study team

2020-01-14

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 24. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Student at Houston Community College (HCC)
• Speak and read English
• Own an iPhone
• Be enrolled in at least one class at HCC
• Provide current contact information
• Smoke 1 or more cigarettes a day (cessation group)
• Have access to the internet (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
• Evidence of smoking susceptibility as defined by the Smoking Susceptibility Scale

You may not qualify if…

• Does not plan to continue as a student at their campus sometime during the year of the study (cessation and prevention/advocacy groups)
• Current tobacco use (prevention/advocacy group)

Where it is running

• Houston Community College — Houston, Texas, United States
• M D Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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