An Innovative Conversational Agent (Quitbot) for Smoking Cessation
Full Scale Randomized Trial of an Innovative Conversational Agent for Smoking Cessation (QuitBot)
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interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
This phase III trial compares two remote digital smoking cessation programs to see how well they work for quitting smoking.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for phase_3
Started Jul 2022
Typical duration for phase_3
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
March 6, 2020
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
March 16, 2020
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
July 24, 2022
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
May 1, 2025
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
May 1, 2026
CompletedMay 28, 2025
May 1, 2025
2.8 years
March 6, 2020
May 23, 2025
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Number of participants with 30-day biochemically confirmed cigarette smoking cessation
No smoking at all in the past 30 or more days. Complete the biochemical verification procedure that is mailed (Alere saliva-based smoking cessation verification test).
At 12 months after randomization
Secondary Outcomes (1)
Number of participants with 30-day biochemically confirmed cigarette smoking cessation
At 3 and 6 months after randomization
Study Arms (2)
Group I (QuitBot Experimental)
EXPERIMENTALParticipants participate in the Quitbot program for 42 days to support quitting smoking. Therapy description withheld to protect the integrity of the study.
Group II (QuitBot Control)
ACTIVE COMPARATORParticipants participate in the Quitbot program for 42 days to support quitting smoking. Therapy description withheld to protect the integrity of the study.
Interventions
Participate in Quitbot experimental cessation program
Participate in Quitbot control cessation program
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Age 18 or older
- Smokes at least one cigarette a day for the past 12 months
- Wants to quit cigarette smoking within the next 30 days (consistent with text messaging intervention trials)
- If concurrently using any other nicotine or tobacco products, wants to quit using them within the next 30 days
- Interested in learning skills to quit smoking
- Willing to be randomly assigned to either intervention
- Resides in United States (US) and will continue to reside in the US for the next 12 months
- Has at least daily access to their own smartphone
- Has text messaging on their smartphone and knows how to download a smartphone application
- Willing and able to read in English, and
- Not using other smoking cessation interventions (This eligibility requirement helps ensure results are due to the treatments we recommend rather than those that participants are doing on their own.)
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Centerlead
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)collaborator
Study Sites (1)
Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
Seattle, Washington, 98109, United States
Related Publications (1)
Bricker JB, Sullivan BM, Mull KE, Lavista-Ferres J, Santiago-Torres M. Efficacy of a conversational chatbot for cigarette smoking cessation: Protocol of the QuitBot full-scale randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Dec;147:107727. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2024.107727. Epub 2024 Oct 28.
PMID: 39490766DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Jonathan B. Bricker
Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 3
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- DOUBLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
March 6, 2020
First Posted
March 16, 2020
Study Start
July 24, 2022
Primary Completion
May 1, 2025
Study Completion
May 1, 2026
Last Updated
May 28, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-05
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share