Conclusions
smoking behavior, Ladia Albertson-Junkans, Cancer
MOORE, CANCER
This study provides encouraging evidence that people who are ambivalent about quitting smoking will voluntarily use and remain engaged with an mHealth app that is designed to help them cut back or quit smoking, even if they are not actively planning to change their smoking behavior at program initiation. Further development of app-based interventions targeted at smokers who are ambivalent about quitting is warranted, as is further evaluation of the effectiveness of EC app version.This work was supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute (R21CA234003; JBM principal investigator). Additional in-kind support for the app development was provided by Kaiser Permanente. We are deeply grateful to Brooks Tiffany for creating the user interface design of the app; Dhaval Patel for developing the app and supporting database; Hiren Desai for his technical support and sponsorship of this work; Tushar Gokhale and Kaiser Permanente’s Telehealth and Mobility team for their support of the app development; Kaiser Permanente’s Mobility Center of Excellence (particularly, Colin Moore, Tonja Williams, and Jocelyn Dela Rosa) for their technical review of the app and ongoing support; Ella Thompson for her assistance managing this study; Yishi Xian for her assistance enrolling participants and collecting follow-up data; Ladia Albertson-Junkans for programming the REDCap surveys; Dr Andrea Cook for her statistical consulting; Sarah Randall for her help preparing this manuscript, and Umesh Singh for his analytic programming support. Conflicts of Interest: JLH has received research support from Pfizer unrelated to this study. None of the other authors have financial or other conflicts of interest to report.CONSORT eHEALTH checklist (V 1.6.1).