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WithdrawnNCT03668769Updated Feb 23, 2024

Quitting Schedule Mobile Smartphone Application in Helping Participants to Quit Smoking

An interventional study of Internet Mobile Technology and Interview in Cigarette Smoker, Current Every Day Smoker and Current Smoker, sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Withdrawn. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-02-23.

Sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention

Why this study was withdrawn
0 participant accrual

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 5 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Mar 2017, registered Sep 2018).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
0
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This trial studies how well a mobile smartphone application called Quitting Schedule works in helping participants to quit smoking. Quitting Schedule is based on WebCASSI, a computer-based initiative that offered state of-the-art smoking cessation treatment and counseling to MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) patients and served as a portal for non-patients to find information regarding smoking cessation advice and treatments. Quitting Schedule may help participants to quit smoking.

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To adapt the internal algorithms of the scheduled reduced smoking approach in Computer Assisted Stop Smoking Intervention for the World Wide Web (WebCASSI) into a smartphone application (app): Quitting Schedule.

II. Once the smartphone app is developed, a pretesting phase with smoker seeking care at MDACC Tobacco Treatment Program or another community service such as Equality Texas, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Advisory Board of the City of Houston, Montrose Center, Avenue 360 and Lesbian Health Initiative will follow.

III. To culturally and linguistically adapt Quitting Schedule app into Spanish language.

IV. To implement a feasibility trial in IDC (Colombia), INCan (Mexico), and INEN (Peru).

OUTLINE:

AIM I: Participants follow an individually tailored gradual reduction of smoking schedule for 5 weeks while MDACC eHealth adapts WebCASSI into a smartphone app: Quitting Schedule.

AIM II: Participants pre-test the Quitting Schedule mobile smartphone app for 5 weeks.

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Conditions studied

  • Cigarette Smoker
  • Current Every Day Smoker
  • Current Smoker
  • Malignant Neoplasm

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In context

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Lead sponsor

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 2,999 studies on the registry; 581 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Current smokers (those who smoke at least 5 cigarettes a day; confirmed with carbon monoxide (CO) levels equal or above 7 parts per million ) newly enrolled in the Tobacco Treatment Program at MDACC (Aim 2 )
  • Male or female (Aim 2)
  • Adult cancer patients - 18 years or older (Aim 2)
  • Current smokers seeking care at the Tobacco Treatment Program at MD Anderson and at Houston area community services who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in lifetime
  • Willing to download and use the app Quitting Schedule (Aim 2)
  • Willing to set a quit smoking date within 5 weeks of the enrollment (Aim 2)
  • Ownership of an iPhone or Android smartphone (Aim 2)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unwillingness to participate in the study (Aim 2)
  • Enrolled in another cessation program (Aim 2)
  • Current use of NRT or other smoking cessation medications,e.g. Varenicline or Bupropion outside of the MD Anderson Institution (Aim 2)
  • Expired CO levels below 7ppm (Aim 2)
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
0 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Prevention (smoking reduction, Quitting Schedule mobile app)

    AIM I: Participants follow an individually tailored gradual reduction of smoking schedule for 5 weeks while MDACC eHealth adapts WebCASSI into a smartphone app: Quitting Schedule. AIM II: Participants pre-test the Quitting Schedule mobile smartphone app for 5 weeks.

    Other: Internet Mobile Technology · Other: Interview · Other: Questionnaire Administration · Behavioral: Smoking Cessation Intervention

Interventions

  • OtherInternet Mobile Technology

    Use Quitting Schedule mobile smartphone app

    Also known as: www-mobile

  • OtherInterview

    Ancillary studies

  • OtherQuestionnaire Administration

    Ancillary studies

  • BehavioralSmoking Cessation Intervention

    Participate in individual smoking cessation program

    Also known as: Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Adaptation of the programmatic infrastructure of WebCASSI (Computer Assisted Stop Smoking Intervention for the World Wide Web) into a more-portable table and smartphone application (app) that will be available both in English and Spanish

    Time frame: Up to 5 weeks

  2. Pre-testing of the app

    A focus group will be used in order to provide feedback on the features of the app in relation to usability for smoking cessation and future app development.

    Time frame: Up to 5 weeks

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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References and documents

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Feb 23, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03668769
Lead sponsor
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Collaborators
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Sep 13, 2018
Start date
Mar 27, 2017
Primary completion
Mar 4, 2020
Completion
Mar 4, 2020
Last update
Feb 23, 2024

Study contacts

Paul Cinciripini
principal investigator · M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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