Can a culturally tailored app help native communities kick the habit?
NCT ID NCT06145763
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Aug 20, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study compares a new smartphone app called IndigeQuit to an existing app (NCI QuitGuide) to help American Indian and Alaska Native adults quit smoking. About 776 participants who smoke daily and want to quit within 30 days will be randomly assigned to use one of the apps. The goal is to see if IndigeQuit, designed with cultural relevance, leads to more people quitting smoking for at least 30 days.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- IndigeQuit smartphone app (behavioral intervention)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could provide an effective, culturally tailored smoking cessation tool for American Indian and Alaska Native communities, reducing smoking-related cancers.
- What could go wrong
- This is a behavioral intervention trial, not a drug or cure. Success depends on user engagement and self-reporting, and results may not generalize to all AI/AN populations.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 776 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Self-identify as American Indian or Alaska Native, either alone or in combination with other races * Age 18 and older * Has smoked daily for the past year * Interest in quitting smoking within the next 30 days * Willing to be randomly assigned to either app * Have daily access to their own Android or iPhone * Able to download a smartphone app * Be willing and able to read English * Not currently or within past 30 days using other smoking cessation behavioral interventions or smoking cessation pharmacotherapies * Have never participated in our prior research * Have no other household or family member participating * Being willing to complete the 3, 6, and 12-month follow-up assessments * Providing email, phone number(s), and mailing address * Living off United States (US) AI/AN tribal reservations or living on five Northern Plains tribal reservations from whom we would obtain approvals to recruit Exclusion Criteria: * Currently (i.e., within past 30 days) using other smoking cessation behavioral interventions * Has participated in our prior research trials * Has used the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) QuitGuide app * Not willing to complete a follow-up survey at 3, 6, and 12 months post-randomization * Not providing email, phone number(s), and mailing address
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
RECRUITINGSeattle, Washington, 98109, United States
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