Smoking Cessation Programme in Workplaces in Hong Kong (Phase ⅤII)

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Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation

In brief

Smoking cessation (SC) interventions using behavioral economics mainly focus on financial incentives, which were used to change health behaviors by utilizing a reward system to enhance long-term maintenance. Incentives have been demonstrated to enhance SC across various populations with moderate effects. Interventions for smoking cessation characterized by financial incentives focus primarily on the potential for monetary gain rather than loss. Changing the motivational strategy to combine disclosing losses with providing financial incentives may increase the effectiveness of financial consequence-based smoking cessation interventions. Thus, this study aims to test, by a 2-arm RCT, the effectiveness of an intervention of which includes mobile phone-based intervention combined with small incentive and smoking cessation in workplaces in Hong Kong; identify facilitators and barriers of successful policy implementation and quitting; examine and evaluate the company environment and their policies in promoting smoking cessation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06932718

Run by

The University of Hong Kong

People needed

328

Starts

2025-03-18

Expected to finish

2027-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-04-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Hong Kong residents aged 18 or above
• Current smoking cigarettes or alternative tobacco products daily with an exhaled carbon monoxide level ≥4 ppm or a positive salivary cotinine test
• Able to communicate in Cantonese/Mandarin and read Chinese
• Able to use instant messaging tool (e.g. WhatsApp) for communication.
• Stay in Hong Kong during the intervention and follow-up periods (12 months)

You may not qualify if…

• Smokers who are psychologically or physically unable to communicate
• Currently following other SC program(s)
• Having used NRT for the past month
• Having severe angina, serious cardiac arrhythmias and hypertension
• Have acute myocardial event in the past month
• Being pregnant or providing breastfeeding

Where it is running

• School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong, Hong Kong (enrolling)

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