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Exposure to Positive Peer Sentiment About Nicotine Replacement Therapy in an Online Smoking Cessation Community is Associated with NRT Use

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.

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Mining User-Generated Content in an Online Smoking Cessation Community to Identify Smoking Status: A Machine Learning Approach

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.

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Geographic Representativeness of a Web-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention: Reach Equity Analysis

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.

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Employer Incentives Encourage Employees to Quit Smoking

It’s hard to stop smoking, but financial incentives can give workers the extra push they need to kick the habit. Amanda Graham, Ph.D., senior vice president of Innovations, weighs in on the impact of incentives to help employees quit.

Quit Smoking Digitally: a Conversation with Amanda Graham of Truth Initiative

Digital Health Investor

Amanda Graham, SVP of Innovations, shares insights on a wide range of topics about Truth Initiative and what makes a tobacco cessation program successful.

How Engagement and Platform Design Impact Digital Behavioral Interventions

MobiHealthNews

Online social networks are becoming an increasingly prevalent strategy for public health and other stakeholders to cut down unhealthy behaviors, such as postpartum weight loss and smoking cessation. A unique benefit of an online social network is it brings people together in a way to support each other that no other treatment modality is capable of accomplishing.

Improving Adherence to Smoking Cessation Treatment: Smoking Outcomes in a Web-based Randomized Trial

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.

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Inferring Smoking Status from User-generated Content in an Online Cessation Community

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.

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Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation Clinical Trials. SCALE (Smoking Cessation within the Context of Lung Cancer Screening) Collaboration

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.

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