Background: Mobile phone–based cessation interventions have emerged as a promising
alternative for smoking cessation, while evidence of the efficacy of mobile phone–based …

Background: Digital mobile technology presents a promising medium for reaching young
adults with smoking cessation interventions because they are the heaviest users of this …

Background: Tobacco use remains the number one cause of preventable chronic disease
and death in developed countries worldwide. In North America, smoking rates are highest …

Background: Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable global health problems
producing nearly 6 million smoking-related deaths per year. Interventions delivered via text …

Background: Emerging evidence supports the use of smartphone apps for smoking
cessation, especially in young adults given their high smoking rates and high smartphone …

Background Mobile health strategies for smoking cessation (eg, SMS text messaging–based
interventions) have been shown to be effective in helping smokers quit. However, further …

Background Advances in mobile communication technologies provide a promising avenue
for the delivery of tobacco dependence treatment. Although mobile instant messaging (IM) …

Background Text message (ie, short message service, SMS) smoking cessation
interventions have demonstrated efficacy in high-income countries but are less well studied …

Abstract Background Mobile Health (mHealth), leveraging nearly 4.5 billion people actively
use mobile phone and internet, can be crucial in promoting tobacco cessation. This umbrella …

With meta-analysis, participant-level data from five text messaging-based smoking cessation
intervention studies were pooled to investigate cessation patterns across studies and …