WhatsApp-Based Coaching Program to Support Smoking and Vaping Cessation Among Young People: Pre-Post Study on Acceptance and Preliminary Efficacy
The WhatsApp-based program appears to be a feasible, moderately accepted, and promising intervention for reducing the consumption of tobacco cigarettes and electronic nicotine products among young people. A larger-scale randomized controlled trial would be reasonable in order to make more substantiated statements about the program's efficacy. .
Authors
- Andreas Wenger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4818-4681)
- Severin Haug (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6539-5045)
- Michael P Schaub (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8375-4005)
- Nikolai Kiselev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0617-0353)
- Olivia Studhalter
- Lisa Caputo
Institutions
- University of Zurich (CH)
- Addiction Switzerland (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR mhealth and uhealth
- Published
- 2025-10-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/65301
- Primary Topic
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00