ACT on Vaping: Digital Therapeutic for Young Adult Vaping Cessation
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Summary
This clinical trial evaluates a smartphone application (app) called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on Vaping for helping young adults quit using electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). E-cigarettes pose numerous risks, particularly to youth and young adults. Addressing the high prevalence of e-cigarette use by young adults requires effective and accessible treatments to support current users to quit. Research shows this group prefers and benefits from newer methods of treatment delivery such as digital interventions. ACT on Vaping is a digital therapeutic intended to deliver behavioral therapy to young adults who vape to motivate and support abstinence from all nicotine and tobacco products. The app contains sessions that promote awareness of cues that trigger tobacco use and teach skills for responding to these triggers in a way that is tailored for the participant's readiness to quit. Receiving access to the ACT on Vaping app may be effective in helping young adults quit vaping.
Description
OUTLINE: Participants are randomized to 1 of 2 arms. ARM I: Participants use the ACT on Vaping app (Version A) and receive a text messaging program to motivate and support quitting. Participants also receive incentivized text message check-ins at 2 weeks, 2 months, and 4 months to assess their vaping status. ARM II: Participants use the ACT on Vaping app (Version B) and receive incentivized text message check-ins at 2 weeks, 2 months, and 4 months to assess their vaping status. After completion of study intervention, participants are followed up at 3, 5.5, and 6 months.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–30 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Age 18-30 * Current weekly user of e-cigarette product(s) for the last 30 days * Has a smartphone; either an Android (running version 12 or higher) or iPhone (running iOS version 17 or higher, iPhone 11 or more recent) * Experience downloading and using one or more apps on their smartphone * Have a mobile data plan and/or access to WiFi to support the use of the ACT on Vaping app * Has access to text messaging * Has an email address * United States (US) resident, with a US mailing address * Willing to complete all study procedures * Comfortable reading and writing in Eng…
Interventions
- BehavioralSmartphone app
Receive access to the ACT on Vaping app
- BehavioralSmartphone app
Receive access to the ACT on Vaping app
- OtherText Message
Receive incentivized text messages to access vaping status
- OtherText Message
Receive intervention text messages
- OtherSurvey Administration
Ancillary studies
Location
- Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer ConsortiumSeattle, Washington