Smartphone Intervention for Smoking Cessation and Improving Adherence to Treatment Among HIV Patients

The purpose of this study is to learn if a mindfulness-based smoking cessation smartphone app can help people quit smoking and stay on antiretroviral therapies.

The current study aims to test the feasibility of a three-arm randomized clinical trial testing the combined mindfulness training + Emocha apps intervention versus the mindfulness training app only with brief advice to improve ART adherence and usual care (UC; brief advice to quit and improve ART adherence). Our primary hypothesis is that the combination of mindfulness training + Emocha apps would be superior to the mindfulness training app with brief advice to improve ART adherence, and these two interventions would be superior to the UC in terms of the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy (3-month smoking cessation; improvement in adherence to ART).