Behavioral Intervention for Youth to Promote Vaping Cessation
Massachusetts General Hospital
Summary
This study will test the hypothesis that the QuitVaping (QV) intervention and additional texting support will improve nicotine abstinence rates in adolescents as compared to Enhanced Usual Care (EUC: education about nicotine, vaping and addiction, advice to quit vaping, referral to TIQ texting support). Approximately 400 adolescents will be randomly assigned to one of two arms (1) QuitVaping intervention plus texting support to quit vaping and (2) EUC only.
Description
Up to 400 adolescents, ages 14-18, who report weekly nicotine vaping (or use of other non combusted nicotine products, "vaping") and are willing to try to quit or reduce vaping will be enrolled; eligible participants will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to a double-blind intervention consisting of (1) QuitVaping intervention plus texting support or (2) EUC only. Participants assigned to the QuitVaping intervention will receive referral to TIQ texting app and 12 brief, weekly, study intervention visits with monthly follow up visits until week 36. Those who are assigned to EUC will be offer…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 14–18 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 14-18 inclusive * Self-report of at least weekly nicotine vaping (or use of other non combusted nicotine products, "vaping") for the prior ≥3 months * Self-report of no regular combusted tobacco use (i.e., 5 or more days of smoke smoked tobacco use per week) prior to enrollment and exhaled CO \<10 ppm for those with an in person baseline visit * Report willingness to try to quit or reduce vaping in the next 30 days * Able to understand study procedures and read and write in English or Spanish * Have a parent or legal guardian who is able to participate in the opt out…
Interventions
- BehavioralQuitVaping
QuitVaping is a manualized intervention based on the American Lung Association smoking cessation program modified with adolescent appropriate content and language for vaping cessation from the vaping section of teen.smokefree.gov and the Truth Initiative. These behavioral support sessions will be delivered weekly during the 12-week treatment phase via videoconference or in- person.
- BehavioralThis is Quitting (TIQ)
A free, publicly available text message vaping cessation program from Truth Initiative, designed specifically to help adolescents who vape nicotine quit. Participants who set a quit date receive messages for a week preceding it and 30 days afterward that include encouragement and support, skill- and self-efficacy building exercises, coping strategies, and information about the risks of vaping, benefits of quitting and cutting down to quit.
Location
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Addiction Medicine, 101 Merrimac Street, Suite 320, Boston, MA 02114Boston, Massachusetts