Millions of smokers turn to the Internet each year for cessation assistance and hundreds of thousands seek advice and support in online social networks for smoking cessation. Though it has been nearly 20 years since the first online social network for smoking cessation was launched, little is known about the ways in which online social networks impact tobacco use. This study examined 6 years of longitudinal data from EX to learn how online social networks influence smoking cessation. Our multidisciplinary team of behavioral and computational social scientists conducted a series of social network analyses, sentiment analyses, text analytics to better understand the ways in which online communications and relationships translate into offline behavior change.
- Discussions of Alcohol Use in an Online Social Network for Smoking Cessation: Analysis of Topics, Sentiment, and Social Network Centrality
- Twelve Million Smokers Look Online for Smoking Cessation Help Annually: Health Information National Trends Survey Data, 2005–2017
- Inferring Smoking Status from User-generated Content in an Online Cessation Community
- Mining User-Generated Content in an Online Smoking Cessation Community to Identify Smoking Status: A Machine Learning Approach
- Exposure to Positive Peer Sentiment About Nicotine Replacement Therapy in an Online Smoking Cessation Community is Associated with NRT Use
- A Prospective Examination of Online Social Network Dynamics and Smoking Cessation
- How US Smokers Refer to E-cigarettes: an Examination of User-generated Posts from an Online Social Network, 2008-2015
- The Failure to Increase Social Support: It Just Might Be Time to Stop Intervening (and Start Rigorously Observing)
- A Descriptive Study of the Prevalence and Typology of Alcohol-related Posts in an Online Social Network for Smoking Cessation
- A Preliminary Exploration of Former Smokers Enrolled in an Internet Smoking Cessation Program
- A Multirelational Social Network Analysis of an Online Health Community for Smoking Cessation
