Helping Moms Quit Pilot Trial
Purpose
The objective of this study is to test the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a tailored text message program to support smoking abstinence among postpartum women who smoke or recently quit.
Condition
- Smoking Cessation
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Over 18 Years
- Eligible Genders
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- Less than one month postpartum - Live delivery - Smoked at least 100 cigarettes/lifetime - Smoked anytime during their most recent pregnancy - English-speaking - Own a mobile phone - Provide an email address - Willing to receive intervention-related texts - Willing to complete surveys - Willing to provide a saliva sample at the end of the study
Exclusion Criteria
- Women whose pregnancy did not result in live birth - On a 7-point scale, participant indicates that they are not interested in quitting or staying quit in the next 6 months (Not at all = 1).
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None (Open Label)
Arm Groups
Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
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Experimental Moms Quit Intervention |
12 weeks of the Moms Quit text message intervention |
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Active Comparator Text4Baby |
12 weeks of Text4Baby messages |
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More Details
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Kansas Medical Center
Study Contact
Detailed Description
This pilot trial will evaluate a text message intervention (Moms Quit) to be initiated with postpartum women within one month of delivery. Moms Quit is a tailored program to support smoking abstinence among new mothers who are either current smokers or quit during their most recent pregnancy. Investigators will randomize 30 postpartum women, stratified by recent/current smoking status, into Moms Quit versus vs. CONTROL. Investigators hypothesize that participants receiving Moms Quit will have, on average, a significantly longer period of self-reported prolonged abstinence compared to CONTROL.