We are checking Efficacy of a Digital Therapeutic Tool
A digital Therapeutic App for Smoking Cessation
This mobile App claims to change approaches of a person towards smoking
Site of Origin: IIT Bombay
Background
- Tobacco smoking remains one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide. The most effective tobacco cessation programs require personalized human intervention combined with costly pharmaceutical supplementation, making them unaffordable and/or inaccessible to most tobacco users.
- Thus, digital interventions, delivered through smartphones, offer a promising alternative to these traditional methods. We would like to understand whether text and video-based content, delivered via a smartphone application, with minimal to zero human intervention, can be used to reverse the psychological dependence on nicotine (via smoking or vaping) at scale.
- To answer this, we propose to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a smartphone-app based tobacco cessation program.
When is it starting?
Recruiting from July 2023 onwards.
We are recruiting participants from centres across India