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Can a phone app help young vapers kick the habit?

NCT ID NCT06395415

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study tests a mobile health app designed to help young adults (ages 18-26) quit using e-cigarettes and other nicotine products. The app delivers personalized motivational messages and skills training over 6 weeks. Researchers will measure if participants stop vaping, confirmed by a mailed saliva test. The study involves 46 participants and aims to find a practical way to support quitting.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance
mobile health intervention (behavioral app with motivational and skills messages)
What this could lead to
If successful, this could provide an effective, scalable tool to help young adults quit vaping and reduce nicotine addiction.
What could go wrong
This is a small pilot study (46 participants) with no control group, so results may not be generalizable. The intervention is behavioral and may not work for everyone.

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Study facts

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Phase

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

About 46 people

The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.

Started

Apr 2025

Expected to finish

Aug 2026

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

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.

Ages

18 to 26 years

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Accepted

You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.

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Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age 18-26 years old, ability to understand the English language, willing and able to provide informed consent 2. Current ENDS user (at least 4 out of 7 days per week of use for the past one month); for focus groups, at least half of participants will report current cigarette smoking (at least 1 cigarette per day on at least 1 day per week in the past month) 3. Report interest in quitting or reducing ENDS (at least 6/10 scale in interest of quitting or reducing 4. Does not currently (in past one year) meet criteria for major psychiatric disorder including severe alcohol or substance use disorder (excluding tobacco use disorder), schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder 5. For women, not currently pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding due to lack of information on ENDS use and possible harms from NRT during pregnancy 6. Not currently using smoking cessation medication (i.e., Varenicline, Bupropion 7. No history of adverse reactions to nicotine replacement therapy Exclusion Criteria: 1. Does not own a mobile phone or is unwilling to receive text messages to their device 2. No interest in quitting or reducing use of ENDS 3. Uses electronic cigarettes less than 4 days per week in the past month 4. Reports past-year serious psychiatric illness, including severe alcohol or substance use disorder (excluding tobacco use disorder), schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder 5. Is currently using smoking cessation medication including Varenicline or Bupropion 6. Are a female who is currently pregnant or nursing or planning to become pregnant within the next 6 months

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Conditions

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Cigarette Smoking Vaping

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • University of Chicago BREATHE Laboratory

    RECRUITING

    Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States

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