Quit IT: Preliminary Testing of a Web-based, 3D Coping Skills Game to Increase Quitting Self-Efficacy for Maintaining Smoking Abstinence Following Hospitalization

Quit IT: Preliminary Testing of a Web-based, 3D Coping Skills Game to Increase Quitting Self-Efficacy for Maintaining Smoking Abstinence Following Hospitalization

The purpose of this study is to develop and test a web-based game called Quit It that is designed to help smokers who have quit smoking cope with any smoking urges they may have. The purpose of the game is to help people quit and stop people from smoking again.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age ≥ 18 years old
• English-speaking
• Cancer (solid tumor) diagnosis or mass suspicious of cancer within past six months as per clinical judgment
• Cancer treatment expected plan to include hospitalization for surgical treatment for at least 2 days at MSKCC as per the patients clinical team
• Referred to MSK's Tobacco Cessation Program
• Patient-reported cigarette use within the past 30 days
• Have sufficient sensory acuity (i.e., auditory, visual) and manual dexterity to use a computer game as per judgment of clinician or consenting professional
• Can be reached by telephone

Exclusion Criteria:

• Distant metastatic disease at the time of enrollment
• Major psychiatric illness or cognitive impairment that in the judgment of the investigator would preclude study participation
• Any patients who are unable to comply with the study procedures as determined by the study investigators