Maximising the effectiveness of interactive automated programs for smoking cessation

Funded Activity Summary

This project is to design, implement and trial automated programs to help smokers quit. It makes use of the powers of modern computing and telecommunications. It uses information the person provides to personally tailor advice and assistance to smokers as they progress from beginning to think about quitting through to being a stable, happy non-smoker. In particular, we are interested in the relative value of detailed advice as compared with the capacity of modern messaging technology (SMS, voice, images) to provide a set of prompts and reminders that help smokers manage a quit attempt and help prevent them relapsing back to smoking. Once we have developed the interventions, we will subject them to a rigorous scientific trial to see how effective they are and also how cost-effective they prove. Our hope is that these programs will provide a cheap, accessible and effective way of helping smokers to quit and thus help reduce the huge toll of smoking-related disease.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2006

End Date: 01-01-2009

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $922,582.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Automated personalised advice | Cognitive-behavioural therapy | Human computer interaction | Mass disseminable lifestle change interventions | Prevention programs | Randomised controlled trial | Smoking cessation | Telehealth | Tobacco-caused disease and disability

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