Inspired: Smartphone Videogame-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention

Breathe Free: Smartphone Videogame-Based Incentives for Smoking Cessation

The investigators are testing a new, smartphone videogame-based intervention for smoking cessation.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Smoking Cessation
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Inspired

Detailed Description

The investigators have developed a novel smartphone videogame, where smokers are required to submit breath carbon monoxide samples to demonstrate smoking abstinence, and where they will earn game-based rewards contingent on meeting CO goals. Players will be working with teams to earn group and social rewards to help advance their game.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 48
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New Jersey
    • Glassboro, New Jersey, United States, 08028
      • Rowan University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Inclusionary criteria: Participants will be required to be of legal smoking age (>19 in Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey, Utah, and in Onondaga, Nassau and Suffolk Counties in New York, > 18 years of age in the remainder of the United States). Participants must also report smoking >10 cigarettes per day, report smoking for >2 years, answer 8 or higher on a Likert scale asking how much the person wishes to quit smoking right now (1 = not at all, 10 =very much), have a smartphone with a data plan and active contract extending for at least two months from the enrollment date (i.e., the duration of the study), and reside in the U.S. Participants in the study must submit an initial CO reading > 10ppm (to prevent nonsmokers from enrolling in the study), Literacy will be assessed by having the participant read the first few lines of the consent form out loud, and will be an inclusion criterion because elements of "Breathe Free" will require reading.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals will be excluded from the study if they report smoking any combustible products >2 times per month, report unstable medical/psychiatric conditions that might interfere with the study objectives (e.g., asthma), report living with someone who smokes in the house, or has a career that results in excessive exposure to CO. All excluded participants will be emailed the following smoking cessation information: the "Clearing the Air" packet developed by the National Cancer Institute, Smokefree.gov, Quitsmokinghelpline.com, and the National Academies Press "Dying to quit."

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Contingent; Participants in this arm will be required to meet CO goals in order to earn game-based rewards.	Behavioral: Inspired; The investigators will be studying the ability of using videogame-based rewards to increase smoking abstinence when they are made contingent on meeting abstinence goals.
Active Comparator: Non-contingent; Participants in this arm will submit CO verifications but will earn game-based rewards independent of meeting CO goals.	Behavioral: Inspired; The investigators will be studying the ability of using videogame-based rewards to increase smoking abstinence when they are made contingent on meeting abstinence goals.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Smoking abstinence	self-report of smoking abstinence over the previous 7-day period.	7 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Demographic	description of participants	7 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Rowan University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Upton CR, Nastasi JA, Raiff BR. Identifying Video Game Preferences Among Adults Interested in Quitting Smoking Cigarettes: Survey Study. JMIR Serious Games. 2022 Mar 24;10(1):e30949. doi: 10.2196/30949.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 5, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): January 20, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 26, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 24, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): April 26, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 10, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 9, 2020
• Last Verified: March 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: ProG0520140170

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No