TRANSforma Tu Salud Dejando de Fumar: Advancing smoking cessation among transgender individuals

PROJECT SUMMARY Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are a promising modality for overcoming barriers and providing culturally appropriate treatment among transgender individuals. mHealth interventions may be appropriate among transgender individuals, as emergent evidence suggests that virtual spaces are used to access gender affirming

support and resources. Moreover, mHealth interventions may enable authentic self-expression among transgender individuals, which is not always possible offline. Over the past 7-years, our team has developed Decídetexto, a culturally accommodated smoking cessation text messaging intervention for U.S. Latino smokers.

Decídetexto has been expanded to different Latin American countries/regions (e.g., Mexico and Puerto Rico), and has been adapted to different populations (e.g., U.S. Latino smokers living with HIV). A recently completed randomized controlled trial (RCT) with U.S. Latino smokers (n=457) demonstrated that U.S. Latinos receiving

the Decídetexto intervention were significantly more likely than those receiving standard of care (smoking cessation printed materials) to be smoking abstinent at Month 6 (34.1% vs 20.6%; p