Delivering Smoking Cessation Support by Mobile Phone Text Message: What Information do Smokers Want? A Focus Group Study

We examined smokers' attitudes toward text messaging as a tool to facilitate smoking cessation as well as preferences for message content and text delivery. Six focus groups were conducted from a total of 24 participants, with additional information obtained via paper questionnaire. Interaction with the text messaging system, tailoring message content and delivery, highlighting the positive effects of quitting, and offering encouragement by text were considered important features of a text support program. Future text messaging interventions may benefit from these findings.

Source: Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research - March 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James Jamison, Felix Naughton, Hazel Gilbert, Stephen Sutton Tags: Original Article Source Type: research