A text message support program can help teenagers with their vaping addiction, a study says
A text message support program can help teenagers with their vaping addiction, a study says
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BOSTON – A text messaging program could help teenagers quit e-cigarettes.
Highly addictive, e-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among teenagers. In fact, up to 10% of high school students use them. But a new study published in JAMA found that sending frequent text messages can help them break the habit.
Studying more than 1,500 adolescent e-cigarette users, researchers found that those who received daily automated, interactive vaping cessation text messages that provided cognitive and behavioral coping skills training and social support were more likely to have quit smoking after seven months.
Mallika Marshall, MD
Mallika Marshall, MD, is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and physician who has been a HealthWatch reporter for CBS Boston/WBZ-TV for over 20 years. Dr. Marshall is a practicing physician with board training in internal medicine and pediatrics, is affiliated with Harvard Medical School, and practices at Massachusetts General Hospital at MGH Chelsea Urgent Care and MGH Revere Health Center, where she is currently on the front lines caring for patients with COVID-19. She is also a host and contributing editor for Harvard Health Publications (HHP), the publishing division of Harvard Medical School.
