Effectiveness of a vaping cessation text message program among a diverse and high risk sample of adolescent e-cigarette users

E-cigarettes have been the most commonly used tobacco product among adolescents in the United States for nearly a decade. There is broad consensus that adolescents should not use any form of tobacco product, and yet there are no published studies of vaping cessation interventions for teens. This presentation will describe the results of a randomized, controlled clinical trial conducted from October 2021 to October 2023 that compared a text message intervention to an assessment-only control among a diverse and high-risk sample of 1,503 U.S. teens ages 13-17. Results from this trial will be placed in the context of ongoing national public education efforts to disseminate the intervention, which have yielded uptake among more than 700,000 teens and young adults since the program launched in January 2019.