Short Messaging Service Program to Help Quit Smoking During Perioperative Period.

Perioperative Smoking Cessation in Surgical Patients Using Short Messaging Service Program.

Smoking can increase the risk of complications around the time of surgery. Researchers are trying to see if a text messaging program can help smokers stay off cigarettes around the time of surgery.

The long-term goal of the project is to increase the reach and effectiveness of tobacco use interventions in healthcare settings. The main objective of this project is to determine whether an innovative tobacco use intervention targeting abstinence from the morning of surgery until one week after surgery ("quit for a bit") can increase sustained engagement of surgical patients in treatment compared with a standard tobacco use intervention that specifically targets long-term abstinence ("quit for good").

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18 years or older
• Greater than 100 cigarettes lifetime consumption and history of smoking cigarettes every day or most days within the week prior to enrollment
• Willingness to either "quit for a bit" or "quit for good" in the perioperative period, and;
• Owning a device with access to SMS with an unlimited text plan

Exclusion Criteria:

• Surgery on the day of POE evaluation
• Any active psychiatric condition