In the U.S., there are more than 1.2 million inpatient stays each year for serious mental illness (SMI). Yet tobacco cessation treatment for SMI smokers is lacking and the vast majority of patients relapse after hospital discharge. This ongoing study tailors EX to meet the needs of SMI smokers to help them stay quit after a psychiatric hospitalization.

This 2-phase study showed that a text message program that delivered dynamically tailored content drove higher levels of engagement in a multimodal digital tobacco cessation intervention.

Lung cancer screening is a powerful moment to initiate cessation treatment. Led by Mayo Clinic, this trial tested the effectiveness of EX and face-to-face counseling among smokers undergoing lung cancer screening.

Can an online community actually help people quit smoking? We applied novel social computing methods to 6 years of data from the EX Community to answer that question and others.

This pilot study adapted EX to address heavy drinking to help smokers reduce their alcohol use and increase their chances of quitting.

Social influence and social support are important for quitting smoking. This randomized trial tested an innovative social network approach to improve quit rates among 5,300 smokers on EX.

In partnership with Georgetown University and MedStar Health, this study integrated EX into the electronic health record to make it easy for healthcare providers to connect smokers with digital cessation treatment.

This mixed-methods study developed culturally tailored Spanish-language online ads and evaluated their effectiveness in driving uptake of an Internet quit smoking program among Latino smokers.