News Employer Incentives Encourage Employees to Quit Smoking 10/29/2018 SHRM 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. View
News How Engagement and Platform Design Impact Digital Behavioral Interventions 06/29/2018 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. View
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
Manuscript A Descriptive Study of the Prevalence and Typology of Alcohol-related Posts in an Online Social Network for Smoking Cessation 2017 Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs This study used machine-learning text classification to identify the prevalence, sentiment, and social network correlates of alcohol-related content in the EX Community. Continue Reading