Optimizing Text Messaging to Improve Adherence to Web-Based Cessation Treatment

"Phase I Factor~Personalized text messages using the participant's username and gender (Check out the EX Community for tips/support from other men who have quit. They've been there and can help you do this, QuitForever!). Both data points will be pulled from BecomeAnEX registration data."

"Phase I Factor~Interactive messages to facilitate engagement via text with the 6 interactive intervention components of the BecomeAnEX web intervention:~Set your quit date Cigarette tracker Beat your smoking triggers Build your support system Choose a quit smoking aid Community~Integration will allow interaction with the web-based program via text message; for example, when a user sets a quit date via the website, it will trigger text messages tailored to the quit date; likewise, if a user sets a quit date via the text system, it will be populated in the website and drive the user experience online."

Individually tailored message to remind/reinforce users about BecomeAnEX information/tools they have already used, or to prompt users to take actions they have not yet taken.

"Phase I Factor~Varying levels of text message intensity over a 12-week period."

Optimal-adherence text message intervention developed in Phase I