# Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of Health Interventions for Smoking Cessation in China and Vietnam

> **NIH NIH R01** · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $281,599

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
Although China and Vietnam have both ratified the FCTC, neither provides its smokers with comprehensive
cost-covered smoking cessation services. Cessation by current smokers is considered by many to be the only
practical way to avoid a substantial proportion of tobacco deaths worldwide before 2050. Determining how to
provide effective smoking cessation services to smokers in China and Vietnam represents one of the biggest
challenges in global tobacco control efforts today. Mobile health technology (mHealth) holds particular promise
for China and Vietnam, two countries with rapidly increasing mobile phone usage. However, substantial
adaptations of existing mHealth smoking cessation interventions are needed to address the unique
sociocultural barriers to quitting smoking for Chinese and Vietnamese smokers. The long-term goals of this
project are to build and strengthen the capacity to develop and disseminate evidence-based, culturally
appropriate interventions for smoking cessation using mHealth approaches in China and Vietnam. The specific
aims of this project are 1) to develop and examine the efficacy of a culturally-enhanced mHealth intervention to
promote smoking cessation among adult male smokers in China and Vietnam; and 2) to build and strengthen
sustainable capacity for rigorous research on smoking cessation intervention studies using scalable mHealth
methods in China and Vietnam. This project will not only provide timely and much-needed research evidence
on the effectiveness of culturally-adapted mHealth approaches in China and Vietnam, but will also build a
cadre of local researchers who will be able to carry out independent mHealth smoking cessation interventions.
If scaled to population level, these interventions have the potential to help millions of smokers to quit smoking
in China and Vietnam.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9898498
- **Project number:** 5R01TW010666-04
- **Recipient organization:** GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHAEL PAUL ERIKSEN
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $281,599
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-08-22 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9898498

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9898498, Cultural Adaptation and Evaluation of Health Interventions for Smoking Cessation in China and Vietnam (5R01TW010666-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9898498. Licensed CC0.

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