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NCT Number: NCT02099097

Quit IT: Preliminary Testing of a Web-based, 3D Coping Skills Game to Increase Quitting Self-Efficacy for Maintaining Smoking Abstinence Following Hospitalization

The purpose of this study is to develop and test a web-based game called Quit It that is designed to help smokers who have quit smoking cope with any smoking urges they may have. The purpose of the game is to help people quit and stop people from smoking again.

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Key information

Conditions

Tobacco Use Cessation Behavior Health Behavior

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, 10065, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 18 years old
  • English-speaking
  • Cancer (solid tumor) diagnosis or mass suspicious of cancer within past six months as per clinical judgment
  • Cancer treatment expected plan to include hospitalization for surgical treatment for at least 2 days at MSKCC as per the patients clinical team
  • Referred to MSK's Tobacco Cessation Program
  • Patient-reported cigarette use within the past 30 days
  • Have sufficient sensory acuity (i.e., auditory, visual) and manual dexterity to use a computer game as per judgment of clinician or consenting professional
  • Can be reached by telephone

Exclusion criteria

  • Distant metastatic disease at the time of enrollment
  • Major psychiatric illness or cognitive impairment that in the judgment of the investigator would preclude study participation
  • Any patients who are unable to comply with the study procedures as determined by the study investigators

Treatment and study plan

web-based video game (Quit IT)

Other

Questionnaires

Behavioral

In order to maximize survey the response rate, patients will be mailed a reminder letter approximately two weeks before the 1 month follow up surveys are due. If the survey is not returned, patients will be sent additional reminders on the survey due date as well as two weeks past the due date.

Salvia sample

Other

The investigators will inform patients prior to obtaining their self-reports that a saliva test or expired CO sample for those using NRT or electronic cigarettes will be performed to examine recent tobacco exposure.

Primary outcomes

  1. quitting smoking self-efficacy

    Time frame: 1 year

    as measured by the Confidence Questionnaire to assess changes in confidence in being able to resist urges to smoke across everyday situations.

Secondary outcomes

  1. efficacy of the game

    Time frame: 1 year

    on smoking abstinence and relapse prevention. We will examine time to smoking relapse following hospitalization, measured as part of the follow-up Smoking Status 1 month following enrollment. We will also biochemically verify 7-day point prevalence smoking abstinence at the 1 month follow-up assessment.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Other

Collaborators

  • Muzzy Lane Software
  • New York University

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2020
Study completion
2020
First posted
Mar 28, 2014
Registry last updated
Dec 30, 2020

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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