Effect of a Mobile Phone Intervention on Quitting Smoking in a Young Adult Population of Smokers: Randomized Controlled Trial

Neill Bruce Baskerville   ^{1, 2, 3} , PhD ;   Laura Louise Struik   ¹ , RN, PhD ;   Godefroy Emmanuel Guindon   ⁴ , PhD ;   Cameron D Norman   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Robyn Whittaker   ⁷ , PhD ;   Catherine Burns   ⁸ , PhD ;   David Hammond   ² , PhD ;   Darly Dash   ^{2, 9} , MSc ;   K Stephen Brown   ¹⁰ , PhD

¹ Propel Centre for Population Health Impact, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

² School of Public Health and Health Systems, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

³ School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo, Kitchener, ON, Canada

⁴ Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

⁵ Cense Ltd, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁷ National Institute of Health Innovation, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

⁸ Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁹ Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada