WhatsApp group discussion for smoking relapse prevention: a randomised controlled trial (abridged secondary publication)
DYT Cheung1, HCH Chan2, M Conway3, CKH Wong4, WHC Li1, MP Wang1, TH Lam5
1 School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
2 Integrated Centre on Smoking Cessation, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Hong Kong SAR, China
3 Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
4 Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
5 School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Compared with short message service, WhatsApp group discussion did not lead to a significant increase in long-term tobacco abstinence or a significant decrease in smoking relapse among recent quitters who received smoking cessation support.
- The use of a WhatsApp group discussion was associated with short-term tobacco abstinence.