Internet and mobile phone text messaging intervention for college smokers.
OBJECTIVE
The authors developed a smoking cessation program using mobile phone text messaging to provide tailored and stage-specific messages to college smokers.


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.
Riley
William
W
NIMH, Bethesda, MD 20892-9615, USA. wiriley@mail.nih.gov
Obermayer
Jami
J
Jean-Mary
Jersino
J
D000293:Adolescent; D040421:Cell Phone; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D013334:Students; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult