An Innovative Conversational Agent (Quitbot) for Smoking Cessation

Inclusion Criteria

• •Age 18 or older
• •Smokes at least one cigarette a day for the past 12 months
• •Wants to quit cigarette smoking within the next 30 days (consistent with text messaging intervention trials)
• •If concurrently using any other nicotine or tobacco products, wants to quit using them within the next 30 days
• •Interested in learning skills to quit smoking
• •Willing to be randomly assigned to either intervention
• •Resides in United States (US) and will continue to reside in the US for the next 12 months
• •Has at least daily access to their own smartphone
• •Has text messaging on their smartphone and knows how to download a smartphone application
• •Willing and able to read in English, and
• •Not using other smoking cessation interventions (This eligibility requirement helps ensure results are due to the treatments we recommend rather than those that participants are doing on their own.)