Maximising the effectiveness of interactive automated programs for smoking cessation

该项目旨在设计、实施和试验帮助吸烟者戒烟的自动化程序。它利用了现代计算和电信的力量。它使用吸烟者提供的信息来亲自为吸烟者量身定做建议和帮助，因为他们从开始考虑戒烟到成为一名稳定、快乐的不吸烟者。我们尤其感兴趣的是，与现代信息技术(短信、语音、图像)相比，详细建议的相对价值在于它能够提供一系列提示和提醒，帮助吸烟者管理戒烟尝试，并帮助防止他们再次吸烟。一旦我们开发了干预措施，我们将对它们进行严格的科学试验，看看它们有多有效，以及它们的成本效益有多高。我们希望，这些计划将提供一种廉价、方便和有效的方式来帮助吸烟者戒烟，从而帮助减少与吸烟相关的疾病造成的巨大损失。

This project is to design, implement and trial automated programs to help smokers quit. It makes use of the powers of modern computing and telecommunications. It uses information the person provides to personally tailor advice and assistance to smokers as they progress from beginning to think about quitting through to being a stable, happy non-smoker. In particular, we are interested in the relative value of detailed advice as compared with the capacity of modern messaging technology (SMS, voice, images) to provide a set of prompts and reminders that help smokers manage a quit attempt and help prevent them relapsing back to smoking. Once we have developed the interventions, we will subject them to a rigorous scientific trial to see how effective they are and also how cost-effective they prove. Our hope is that these programs will provide a cheap, accessible and effective way of helping smokers to quit and thus help reduce the huge toll of smoking-related disease.