The quitIT coping skills game for promoting tobacco cessation among smokers diagnosed with cancer: Pilot randomized controlled trial

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Background: Although smoking cessation apps have become popular, few have been tested in randomized clinical trials or undergone formative evaluation with target users. Objective: We developed a cessation app targeting tobacco-dependent cancer patients. Game design and behavioral rehearsal principles were incorporated to help smokers identify, model, and practice coping strategies to avoid relapse to smoking. In this randomized pilot trial, we examined feasibility (recruitment and retention rates), acceptability (patient satisfaction), quitting self-confidence, and other cessation-related indices to guide the development of a larger trial. exclusion, and refusal reasons; compare refusal and attrition by key demographic and clinical variables; and report tobacco-related outcomes. Results: Follow-up data were collected from 65% (13/20) patients in the QuitIT and 61% (11/18) in SC arms. Study enrollees were 71% (27/38) females, 92% (35/38) white people, and 95% (36/38) non-Hispanic people. Most had either lung (12/38, 32%) or gastrointestinal (9/38, 24%) cancer. Those dropping out were less likely than completers to have used a tablet (P

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Krebs, P., Burkhalter, J., Fiske, J., Snow, H., Schofield, E., Iocolano, M., … Ostroff, J. S. (2019). The quitIT coping skills game for promoting tobacco cessation among smokers diagnosed with cancer: Pilot randomized controlled trial. JMIR MHealth and UHealth, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.2196/10071

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