679
Participants
Start Date
May 11, 2017
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2019
Study Completion Date
June 30, 2021
Health talk plus intensive social media intervention
Subjects in this group will receive treatments including a general health education talk about smoking cessation. Subjects will also get involved in the personalized what's app interaction (up to 2 months duration) to receive social support to quit smoking. The intervention outcomes and subjects' smoking status will be followed up regularly via telephone interviews (15 - 30 minutes).
Health talk plus less intensive social media intervention
Subjects in this group will receive treatments including a general health education talk about smoking cessation but without the information of active referral to other smoking cessation services. Subjects will receive less intensive reminders via social media. The intervention outcomes and subjects' smoking status will be followed up regularly via telephone interviews (15 - 30 minutes).
School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society, Kowloon
OTHER
The University of Hong Kong
OTHER