Tobacco Use: Mobile Phone Text Messaging Cessation Interventions - Healthy People 2030

About this resource:

Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: July 2020

Workgroups: Tobacco Use Workgroup, Health Communication and Health Information Technology Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends mobile phone text messaging interventions for adults who want to quit smoking. These interventions use interactive features to deliver:

Evidence-based information
Strategies for quitting
Behavioral support

Objectives related to this resource (10)

Reduce current tobacco use in adults — TU‑01

Improving

Reduce current cigarette smoking in adults — TU‑02

Improving

Reduce current cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking in adults — TU‑03

Improving

Reduce current tobacco use in adolescents — TU‑04

Getting worse

Reduce current cigarette smoking in adolescents — TU‑06

Target met or exceeded

Reduce current cigar smoking in adolescents — TU‑07

Improving

Reduce current use of smokeless tobacco products among adolescents — TU‑08

Target met or exceeded

Increase past-year attempts to quit smoking in adults — TU‑11

Little or no detectable change

Increase use of smoking cessation counseling and medication in adults who smoke — TU‑13

Baseline only

Increase successful quit attempts in adults who smoke — TU‑14

Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2020). Tobacco Use: Mobile Phone-Based Cessation Interventions. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/tobacco-use-mobile-phone-text-messaging-cessation-interventions