title: Suicide Prevention Referrals in a Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Intervention.
abstract: Automated mobile health (mHealth) programs deliver effective smoking cessation interventions through text message platforms. Smoking is an independent risk factor for suicide, so the Department of Veterans Affairs incorporated information about the Veterans Crisis Line into its SmokefreeVET smoking cessation text messaging program. Almost 7% of all SmokefreeVET enrollees have accessed this information. Because of the reach and automated nature of this and similar programs, we recommend including a referral to a suicide prevention hotline for all smoking cessation mHealth interventions.
authors.affiliation: Dana E. Christofferson and Kim Hamlett-Berry are with the Office of Public Health, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC. Erik Augustson is with the Tobacco Control Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Dana E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Christofferson
authors.affiliation: Dana E. Christofferson and Kim Hamlett-Berry are with the Office of Public Health, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC. Erik Augustson is with the Tobacco Control Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hamlett-Berry
authors.affiliation: Dana E. Christofferson and Kim Hamlett-Berry are with the Office of Public Health, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC. Erik Augustson is with the Tobacco Control Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Augustson
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D060145:Text Messaging; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs; D000092864:Suicide Prevention