Giving Up Smoking Using SMS Messages on your Mobile Phone
Journal
Human Behavior, Psychology, and Social Interaction in the Digital Era
Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology
ISSN
2328-1316
2328-1324
Publisher
IGI Global
Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Cacho-Elizondo, Silvia
Shahidi, Niousha
Tossan, Vesselina
Type
Resource Types::text::book::book part
Abstract
The current tendency to use cell phones or other mobile devices for healthcare purposes offers a huge opportunity to improve public health worldwide. In that direction, mobile devices make it easier to offer coaching services through text/video messages, to support individuals trying to break addictions such as smoking. Given that use of such services is still low in France and other countries, it is important to have greater understanding of what leads users to adopt them. Therefore, we propose and validate an explanatory model for the intention to adopt a mobile coaching service to help people to stop smoking. This chapter uses the concepts of vicarious innovativeness, social influence, perceived monetary value, perceived enjoyment, and perceived irritation. ©IGI GLOBAL
How to cite
Cacho-Elizondo, S., Shahidi, N., & Tossan, V. (2015). Giving Up Smoking Using SMS Messages on your Mobile Phone. In A. Mesquita & C. Tsai (Eds.), Human Behavior, Psychology, and Social Interaction in the Digital Era (pp. 72-94). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8450-8.ch004