Pragmatic Trial of Text Messages to Recruit Unassisted Tobacco Users Into Quitline Service

Summary

The goal of this pragmatic trial is to compare the effects of text messages on quitline enrollment by patients identified in electronic health records as unassisted tobacco users. The main question it aims to answer is:

Do messages offering free counseling or free nicotine patches by text increase quitline enrollment?

Researchers will compare if people receiving texts about free nicotine patches will have higher quitline enrollment than texts about free counseling.

Participants will receive a text message stratified by quitline language and click on the toll-free number to access quitline services.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation Counselling

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Free Help

Text message offering free quitline coaching. FREE HELP: Hello #first name#, Kick It California works with your provider to help you quit smoking at no cost. A Quit Coach can double your chances of quitting. For more info call 1-844-XXXXXXX.

BEHAVIORAL

Free Nicotine message

Text message for free nicotine patches with free quitline counseling. FREE NRT: Hello #first name#, Kick It California works with your provider to help you quit smoking at no cost. You may be able to get nicotine patches mailed to your home at no cost. For more info call 1-844-XXXXXXX.

BEHAVIORAL

Spanish: Free help message

(Spanish translation available as only English text can be published online in clincialtrials.gov): Text message offering free quitline coaching. FREE HELP: Hello #first name#, Kick It California works with your provider to help you quit smoking at no cost. A Quit Coach can double your chances of quitting. For more info call 1-844-XXXXXXX.

BEHAVIORAL

Spanish: Free nicotine message

(Spanish translation available as only English text can be published online in clinicaltrials.gov): Text message for free nicotine patches with free quitline counseling. FREE NRT: Hello #first name#, Kick It California works with your provider to help you quit smoking at no cost. You may be able to get nicotine patches mailed to your home at no cost. For more info call 1-844-XXXXXXX.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kick It California

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Tobacco Related Disease Research Program

  collaborator OTHER

• California Smokers' Helpline

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, Davis

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Elisa Tong, MD · University of California, Davis

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-04-01

Primary Completion

2022-05-01

Completion

2022-08-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations