Recruiting

Mobile Smoking Treatment

Sponsor:

University of Houston

Code:

NCT04417075

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 55

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Impacto (Mobile App)

Dejar de Fumar Asistente (Mobile App)

Study Details

Brief summary:

The specific aims of the project are to develop and test a Spanish language, mobile app for smoking cessation called Impacto.

Conditions

Smoking Cessation

Study ID

NCT04417075

Start date

Feb 21, 2020

Status verified date

Jun, 2020

Completion date

Jul 31, 2020

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul 31, 2020

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 55

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

1) 18 to 55 year of age, 2) current smoker (i.e., at least 6 cigarettes/day), 3) not currently engaged in smoking cessation treatment, 4), high anxiety sensitivity (AS) score defined as an ASI-III score of ≥ 23, 5) motivation to quit > 5 on a 10 pt. scale, 6) Spanish speaking, and 7) currently own an Android-compatible mobile phone.

Exclusion Criteria:

1) use of other tobacco products (including e-cigarettes), 2) current non-nicotine substance dependence and/or current or intended participation in a concurrent substance abuse treatment, 3) ongoing psychotherapy of any duration directed specifically toward the treatment of anxiety or depression, or 4) active suicidality (i.e., suicidal ideation, intent, and/or plan) or current psychosis

Study Design

Enrollment

38 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Impacto

This is the mobile app to be developed and evaluated in this project.

active comparator: Dejar de Fumar Asistente

This is the mobile app that will serve as the control condition in evaluating the efficacy of Impacto.

Interventions

Impacto (Mobile App)

This is the mobile app to be developed and evaluated in this project. It is designed for Spanish-speaking, Latinx smokers with high anxiety sensitivity and will be built for the Android platform. The app will include components to address and remediate anxiety sensitivity, as well as having smoking cessation components.

Dejar de Fumar Asistente (Mobile App)

Dejar de Fumar Asistente (English version called: Quit Tracker: Stop Smoking) is a popular, free third party mobile application aimed at helping smokers quit smoking. This is the mobile app that will serve as the control condition in evaluating the efficacy of Impacto. This mobile app is well established as a smoking cessation app for Spanish-speaking, Latinx smokers. The app includes smoking cessation components but does not have a specific emphasis on anxiety sensitivity.

Primary outcome measure

  • 7-Day Point Prevalence Smoking Abstinence [ Time Frame: End of treatment (Week 8) ]
  • Change in Smoking Rate (# cigarettes per day) [ Time Frame: Baseline and Weeks 2, 4, 6, and end of treatment (Week 8) ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Justin M Shepherd, M.A.

713-743-8056jmsheph4@central.uh.edu

Locations

Anxiety and Health Research Laboratory and Substance Use Treatment Clinic, University of Houston

Recruiting

Houston, Texas, United States, 77204

Contacts

Pamella Nizio, B.S.

713-743-8056niziopam@gmail.com

Justin M Shepherd, M.A

713-743-8056jmsheph4@central.uh.edu

Principal Investigator:

Michael J Zvolensky, Ph.D.

More Information

Sponsor

University of Houston

Last update posted

Jun 4, 2020

Last verified

Jun, 2020

Keywords

  • Smoking Cessation
  • Mobile App
  • Anxiety Sensitivity

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of Houston on 2020-06-04.