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. 2025 Oct 10;9:e79402. doi: 10.2196/79402

Table 2.

Participant engagement, perceptions, and smoking-related outcomes (4 weeks; N=23).


Values
Engagement

Texted the chatbot at least once, n/N (%) 16/23 (70)

Number of texts sent to BeFreeBot, mean (SD; range) 14.5 (23.6; 0-96)

Responses sent by BeFreeBot, mean (SD; range) 14.3 (23.0; 0-92)

Days texting BeFreeBot, mean (SD) 3.9 (4.4)
Acceptability, n/N (%)

Highly satisfied with the program overall 13/19 (68)

Highly satisfied with BeFreeBot 13/18 (72)

BeFreeBot was helpful 11/19 (58)

BeFreeBot responses were easy to understand 16/17 (94)

BeFreeBot could answer all questions 12/17 (71)

Would recommend BeFreeBot to a friend 13/18 (72)

Trusted responses from BeFreeBot 12/17 (71)

Preferred an AIa counselor over a human one 7/19 (37)
Smoking-related outcomes

Self-report of no smoking in the previous 7 days, n/N (%) 7/19 (37)

Self-report of no smoking in the previous 7 days (missing imputed as smoking), n/N (%) 7/23 (30)

Change in cigarettes smoked per day, mean (SD) 4.5 (7.8)

Past-month quit attempt (yes), n/N (%) 17/19 (90)

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