Overview

The goal of this research study is to test how well an automated text messaging smoking treatment program helps smokers with HIV quit smoking.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 1) being aged ≥18 years
• 2) being HIV-positive
• 3) self-reporting as a current combustible cigarette smoker (smoked ≥100 cigarettes in lifetime and currently smoke ≥1 cigarettes/day)
• 4) willing to set a date for a quit attempt within 2 weeks of study enrollment
• 5) being able to provide written informed consent to participate
• 6) being able to read Khmer (score ≥4 points on the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine-Short Form

Exclusion Criteria:

• 1) history of a medical condition that precludes use of nicotine replacement therapy
• 2) physician/clinician deemed ineligible to participate based on medical or psychiatric condition
• 3) enrolled in another cessation program or use of other cessation medications.