This is a research study about tobacco cessation among young adults. Our team wants to study how we can best use smartphone messages to help young adults quit smoking and vaping tobacco.

Initially, you will be asked to complete a short screening questionnaire to see if you are eligible. You will then send us a picture of your ID to make sure you fit the inclusion criteria. After that, we will send you a link to a baseline questionnaire, which will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. You will be asked to provide your feedback on an intervention prototype by rating messages which we created to help young people quit using tobacco. This message rating will be conducted online via a web-based platform called Recollective. The testing will include a group of 10 young adults, including you, and may take about 1-2 hours to complete. You can provide feedback anytime at your own pace over a 2-week period.

We will keep the data we collect confidential, and we will not share your personal information with anyone outside the research team.

You can skip questions that you do not want to answer or stop your participation in the study at any time.

In return for your time and effort, you will be paid up to $100 for taking part in this study.

Payments will come in the form of Amazon gift cards and will be emailed to you at the end of the study period or at the end of your participation.

You can contact the study team with any questions, concerns, or complaints you have about this study at 415-939-3505 or [email protected].

If you wish to ask questions about the study or your rights as a research participant to someone other than the researchers or if you wish to voice any problems or concerns you may have about the study, please call the Institutional Review Board at 415-476-1814.

Our team wants to study how contextual factors, such as location and surrounding people, impact the behavior of vaping tobacco and/or cannabis among young adults.

The primary data collected in this research study will be questionnaires completed on the computer or on your smartphone.

Initially, you will be asked to complete a short screening questionnaire to see if you are eligible. We will then ask you to send us a picture of your ID to make sure you fit the inclusion criteria and send you a link to a baseline questionnaire, which will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. After that, you will download the research study app on your phone to keep track of your vaping of tobacco and/or cannabis and complete up to 7 short questionnaires per day on the app for 30 days. Each questionnaire will take about 1 minute to complete. After completing the 30 days of the study using the app, you may be selected for an exit interview either in person or over the phone, or via Zoom (about 60 minutes long) and asked about your needs for vaping cessation and recommendations for smartphone-based support.

All participant data will be kept strictly confidential and we will never sell or distribute your data, or publish any information that would identify you. ​
 

You can receive $20 for completing the baseline survey, up to $180 for completing the questionnaires on the research study app, and $100 for participating into the follow-up interview.

If you have any questions about the research study, please contact the Principal Investigator Dr. Nhung Nguyen at 415-939-3503 or [email protected]