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ERIC Number: EJ811950
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 4
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0744-8481
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Internet and Mobile Phone Text Messaging Intervention for College Smokers
Riley, William; Obermayer, Jami; Jean-Mary, Jersino
Journal of American College Health, v57 n2 p245-248 Sep-Oct 2008
Objective: The authors developed a smoking cessation program using mobile phone text messaging to provide tailored and stage-specific messages to college smokers. Participants and Methods: The authors recruited 31 daily smokers who desired to quit from a college campus and asked them to use an Internet and mobile phone text messaging program to quit smoking. Results: Six weeks after program initiation, 45% reported abstinence with 42% abstinent based on cotinine verification. Continued smokers reported significantly reduced smoking rates and dependence. Overall, participants accepted the text messages. Conclusions: These results replicate findings from an earlier study and indicate that mobile phone text messaging is a potentially efficacious and easily disseminated method for providing cessation interventions to young adult smokers. (Contains 2 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: District of Columbia
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