MapMySmoke: Smoking Cessation App With Geospatial Capture

MapMySmoke: Feasibility of a New Quit Cigarette Smoking Mobile Phone Application Using Integrated Geo-positioning Technology, and Motivational Messaging Within Primary Care Setting

Place-based cues can be an important trigger of smoking behavior, therefore the investigators wish to learn more about the influence of the built environment on individual smoking behavior. This is to facilitate dynamic support during the post-quit phase. MapMySmoke is a mobile phone application that enables the capture of spatial data during smoking and craving events. These data will be used to create individualized support plans via the app.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Smoking; Cigarette Smoking; Smoking, Tobacco
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: MapMySmoke

Detailed Description

Investigators know that place-based cues play an important role in the triggering of smoking events, and even in relapse events. It follows that providing individual smokers with spatially explicit and temporally dynamic intervention messages may support smoking cessation attempts.

The investigators have built a mobile phone application-MayMySmoke-that allows individuals to capture each smoking event at the times and places they occur, and tag the events with qualitative metadata. The app also allows individuals to document and describe craving events. The goal of the app is first to understand an individual's smoking profile, and second to support them with dynamic text messages.

The investigators are deploying the app in a clinical setting-the United Kingdom's National Health Service, within the Fife region of Scotland. Using two feasibility studies of increasing size, the investigators are attempting first to get initial feedback on the app, and then to improve the app and deploy it across a broader community of smokers.

Though the app is targeted to smoking behavior, it is possible to extend it to include other negative health behaviors that may have a spatial component.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 110
• Phase: Phase 1

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• National Health Service (Fife) Patients
• Self-reported tobacco smoker
• Stated intention to quit smoking
• English speaker

Exclusion Criteria:

• Mental illness
• learning difficulty

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: MapMySmoke; All patients in the study will use the MapMySmoke app to document their smoking and craving behavior

Device: MapMySmoke; Each patient in the study arm will download and install the MapMySmoke app to record all of their smoking and craving events. The app will generate a quantitative summary of their smoking behavior during a pre-quit phase, and will provide dynamic text support messages during the post-quit phase. The app will also capture spatial details of any relapse events during the post-quit phase.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Continued use of the MapMySmoke App as Assessed by Monitoring Individual Anonymized Data Feeds on the Server	The investigators will determine, via the data feed to the server, if patients continue to use the app during the pre- and post-quit phase	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Patients Using the App Who Are Abstinent from Smoking As Assessed by Follow-up Survey	The investigators will determine via survey if patients have maintained their quit attempt	4 weeks
Number of Patients Using the App Who Are Abstinent from Smoking As Assessed by Follow-up Survey	The investigators will determine via survey if patients have maintained their quit attempt	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of St Andrews
• Collaborators: National Health Service, United Kingdom
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Robert S Schick, PhD, University of St Andrews

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Schick RS, Kelsey TW, Marston J, Samson K, Humphris GW. MapMySmoke: feasibility of a new quit cigarette smoking mobile phone application using integrated geo-positioning technology, and motivational messaging within a primary care setting. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2017 Jul 14;4:19. doi: 10.1186/s40814-017-0165-4. eCollection 2018. Erratum In: Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2017 Oct 24;3:48.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: June 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2017
• Study Completion (Anticipated): December 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 12, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 12, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): October 13, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 22, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 19, 2017
• Last Verified: May 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: XAP062

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No