Projects

PA Quitline Study

Aim 1 – Analyze quitline data to conduct a quantitative analysis of the PA quitline text messaging program

  • Collect quitline participant characteristics
  • Conduct geospatial analysis
    • Quitline user zip codes
    • Landmarks (tobacco retailers)
    • Social determinants (neighborhood environment, socioeconomic variables)
  • Analyze quitline engagement & abstinence

PA Quitline Qualitative Interview Study

Aim 2 – Conduct qualitative interviews to understand barriers and breakthroughs to quitting

  • Participant recruitment
  • Semi-structured, open-ended interviews
  • Interview transcription and thematic analysis

Pilot EMA Smoking Cessation Study

Aim 3 – Pilot EMA Project (DREAM) to develop culturally-tailored mHealth interventions that address smoking cessation barriers

  • Participant recruitment
  • Assess stress, affect, physiology, behavior, health and cue reactivity in real-time using PSU DREAM initiative (mobile phone)
  • Assess exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) level via mobile monitor
  • Use feedback from assessments to design a culturally-tailored smoking cessation intervention for a NIH r01 application

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