Effects of Providing Tailored Information About E-cigarettes in a Digital Smoking Cessation Interven
Friday, March 17, 2023
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Elling
JM, Crutzen R, Talhout R, de Vries H.
Effects of Providing
Tailored Information About E-cigarettes in a Digital Smoking Cessation
Intervention: Randomized Controlled Trial.
Health Educ Res. 2023 Feb 2:cyad004. doi: 10.1093/her/cyad004. Epub ahead of
print. PMID: 36727168.
The effectiveness of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation is under debate.
Informing smokers who are motivated to quit smoking about e-cigarettes may help
them to make an informed decision about their use for smoking cessation, which,
however, may also lead to unintended effects such as less quitting. This
experimental study assessed the influence of providing tailored information
about e-cigarettes in a web-based tailored smoking cessation intervention on
participants' decision-making and smoking behavior. Adult smokers (N = 331)
were randomized into a personalized eHealth intervention on (i) smoking
cessation (control condition) or (ii) smoking cessation and information about
e-cigarettes (intervention condition). Directly postintervention, participants
in the intervention condition had more knowledge about e-cigarettes than
participants in the control condition. Attitudes toward e-cigarettes were more
positive among intervention participants than control participants, but the
differences in attitude were less pronounced than the differences in knowledge
and not consistent across items. At a 6-month follow-up, no between-condition
differences were observed in the use of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation
method, the number of tobacco cigarettes smoked in the past 7 days, or other
smoking outcomes.
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