Interactive Communication Technologies and Nicotine Replacement Therapy Sampling for Smokers

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-09-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Brief advice combined with active referral to smoking cessation (SC) services increases quitting. We aim to strengthen the effect of combined intervention by using interactive communication technologies and nicotine replacement therapy sampling (NRT-S).

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong
• Collaborator: Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Adult smokers aged 18+ years who smoke cigarette(s) daily.

2. Exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) level of ≥ 4ppm.

3. Having smartphones and willing to install IM Apps and a Chatbot.

4. Hong Kong residents able to read and communicate in Chinese (Cantonese or Putonghua).

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Smokers who have psychiatric/psychological diseases/on regular psychotropic medications.

2. Smokers who are using SC medication, NRT, other SC services or projects.

3. Smokers who have contraindication for NRT use: severe angina, arrhythmia, myocardia infraction, pregnancy (or intended to become pregnant <6 months) or breastfeeding.