Manuscript Exposure to Positive Peer Sentiment About Nicotine Replacement Therapy in an Online Smoking Cessation Community is Associated with NRT Use 2018 Addictive Behaviors Social influence matters! Using complex social computing methods, this study showed that members of the EX community who were exposed to positive peer sentiment about NRT were more likely to use medication during their quit attempt. Continue Reading
Manuscript Mining User-Generated Content in an Online Smoking Cessation Community to Identify Smoking Status: A Machine Learning Approach 2018 Decision Support Systems User-generated content in an online community can be a rich source of information about users. Building on earlier work, this study used a novel machine learning approach to classify user-generated content from the EX Community to determine smoking status. Continue Reading
Manuscript Geographic Representativeness of a Web-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention: Reach Equity Analysis 2018 Journal of Medical Internet Research Do rural smokers use the Internet to quit? Yes! This study of >127,000 users of EX found that rural smokers were proportionally overrepresented on EX compared to a national dataset. Continue Reading
Manuscript Improving Adherence to Smoking Cessation Treatment: Smoking Outcomes in a Web-based Randomized Trial 2018 Annals of Behavioral Medicine In a study of nearly 5,300 smokers on EX, use of the core components of EX significantly increased quitting outcomes at 9-months post-randomization. Continue Reading
Manuscript Inferring Smoking Status from User-generated Content in an Online Cessation Community 2018 Nicotine and Tobacco Research This study applied a novel machine learning approach to user-generated content from the EX Community to classify smoking status among users. Implications for intervention tailoring are discussed. Continue Reading
Manuscript Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation Clinical Trials. SCALE (Smoking Cessation within the Context of Lung Cancer Screening) Collaboration 2018 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Mayo Clinic/Truth Initiative was one of six research sites funded by the National Cancer Institute to study how to integrate smoking cessation treatment into lung cancer screening. This manuscript describes this national program of research. Continue Reading
Manuscript Improving Adherence to Smoking Cessation Treatment: Intervention Effects in a Web-based Randomized Trial 2017 Nicotine and Tobacco Research A novel social network intervention was effective in increasing engagement with the core components of EX. Continue Reading
Manuscript Feasibility of Biochemical Verification in a Web-based Smoking Cessation Study 2017 Addictive Behaviors Is biochemical verification of abstinence necessary for all cessation programs? This paper addressed this question using data from a cohort of 600 smokers on EX. Continue Reading
Manuscript Weekly Enrollment and Usage Patterns in an Internet Smoking Cessation Intervention 2017 Internet Interventions Using data from nearly 70,000 users on EX, our partners at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health identified day-of-week patterns of uptake and engagement. These data have helped to inform marketing and promotion strategies developed for EX Program clients. Continue Reading