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Testing Social Media and Digital Tools to Help Young Adults Quit Vaping

This study is looking at how well a mobile app called "quitSTART" and a chatbot feature within it can help young adults stop vaping. The quitSTART app offers educational content, motivational messages, and tips for managing cravings. The chatbot is designed to encourage quitting and help you use the app. You might be able to join if you are between 15 and 25 years old, live in the US, speak English, have a smartphone, vape daily, and have talked about wanting to quit or are experiencing health problems from vaping. The main goal is to see if these tools help people quit vaping, with progress checked at the start, 6 weeks, and 3 months. The current recruitment status is unclear.

Study design
This interventional study plans to enroll 189 participants. It is not specified if it is randomized or blinded.
What's involved
Not specified in the trial record.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
Participants will be followed for vaping cessation at baseline, 6 weeks, and 3 months.

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NCT05994209

Testing the Feasibility and Acceptability of Social Media and Digital Therapeutics to Decrease Vaping Behaviors

Recruiting
PHASE1Ages 15–25InterventionalTreatment
Washington University School of Medicine
~189 participants
Updated 2026-04-13 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:quitSTART Mobile ApplicationChatbot Feature in quitSTART Mobile Application

At a glance

Recruiting sites
1 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Vaping cessation
Measured over Baseline, 6 weeks, 3 months

Conditions

Nicotine Vaping
Nicotine Use Disorder

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
Missouri1

Who to contact

Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD
[email protected]
314-362-2152
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

US Resident
English Speaking
Have daily access to a smartphone
Current vaping product user (P30D)
Identified as socially networking about a desire to quit vaping and/or experiencing negative health outcomes due to vaping
Vaping product user only (i.e., not using vaping as a means to support combustible smoking cessation)

What this trial measures

  • Vaping cessationBaseline, 6 weeks, 3 months

    Vaping cessation as assessed by 7 day self-reported vaping abstinence at follow-up. Timeline follow back procedures will be used to establish abstinence or if participants lapsed (their first instance of vaping post quit) or relapsed (vaped on 7 consecutive days) at each follow up time point.