Can a phone app help young vapers kick the habit?
NCT ID NCT06395415
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
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 46 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2025
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2026
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.
- Ages
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18 to 26 years
- 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: 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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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Chicago BREATHE Laboratory
RECRUITINGChicago, Illinois, 60637, United States
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