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DATA SHEET
What is Text2Stop?
It is a program to deliver effective text messages to cell phones and computers to help people stop smoking.
Does Text2Stop provide a treatment?
Yes, it's messaging program is a treatment, along side other treatments that help people successfully quit smoking.
Does this program work by itself?
As a tool to help people quit smoking, the messaging program offered is best viewed as an adjunct with other treatments, such as therapy, counseling, medications, patches, retreats, and recovery centers.
Does Text2Stop provide a therapy?
No, it is not a therapy, in the sense that therapy implies a therapist, a trained psychologist or counselor, who has a professional relationship with the patient in therapy.
Does Text2Stop offer a prescription?
Yes, it offers a program that is described and referred to as a ÒprescriptionÓ. It is a treatment, that can be prescribed by any health professional, friend, family member or loved one, who wants to help someone quit smoking. The application of the text messaging program does not have to be prescribed by a doctor.
Is messaging a behavioral intervention?
Yes, itÕs program at its most fundamental level, should be viewed as a primary form of behavioral intervention, a recognized treatment that has been proven effective in the treatment of addictions. Current applications are directed at addicts who are in the active stage of seeking treatment.
Is Text2StopÕs program a form of motivational interviewing?
Yes, itÕs program is a messaging media used in asking questions to get smokers to come to the realization themselves that they need to quit, without preaching to them to quit. According to Dr. Christian Hopfer, MD and Steve Martino, Ph.D., ÒMotivational Interviewing is one of the most carefully defined and rigorously studied psychosocial substance abuse treatmentsÓ.
Can messaging be used to motivate smoking cessation?
The technology can be applied through the behavioral intervention of friends and family members of addicts, requesting the program be offered to the addict to help smoking cessation.
Is Text2Stop research monitored by medical professionals?
Principle investigator, leading HMSÕs monitoring of SMS intervention and effectiveness in addiction is Dr. James K. Rotchford, MD, MPH, FACPM, certified by American Society of Addiction Medicine.
Text2Stop has one goal: Help people stop smoking.
We are deadly serious about achieving that goal.
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Text2Stop Subscriber receives 60 messages at 2 messages per day, 7 days a week for 1 month. $9.99 monthly fee is billed by carrier to cell phone.
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