Health and Behavioral Innovations in Technology
Our Research
Welcome to the Health and Behavioral Innovations in Technology (HABIT) research group. We design, develop, test, and disseminate techology-delivered interventions for health behavior change. Our goals are to develop and test technologies to help one million people quit smoking, eat healthy and lose weight.
Publications
Journal of Medical Internet Research 2018
Watson, N.L., Mull, K.E., Heffner, J.L., McClure, J.B., Bricker, J.B.
Participant Recruitment and Retention in Remote eHealth Intervention Trials: Methods and Lessons Learned From a Large Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Web-Based Smoking Interventions.
Journal of Dual Diagnosis 2018
Heffner J.L., Watson, N.L., McClure, J.B., Anthenelli, R.M., Hohl, S., Bricker, J."I Smoke Like This to Suppress These Issues That Are Flaws of My Character": Challenges and Facilitators of Cessation Among Smokers With Bipolar Disorder.
Addiction 2017
Bricker, J.B., Mull, K.E., McClure, J.B., Watson, N.L., Heffner, J.L. Improving Quit Rates of Web-Delivered Interventions for Smoking Cessation: Full Scale Randomized Trial of WebQuit.org versus Smokefree.gov.
News & Features
Smoking after a cancer diagnosis
Hutch News | By Diane Mapes | Nov. 16, 2017
Smoking can be a source of shame and treatment complications for cancer patients, but Dr. Bricker's HABIT Group researchers can help them quit. Read about the new Quit2Heal.
E-cigs, apps and the FDA's push to limit nicotine
Hutch news | By Dian Mapes | Aug. 1, 2017
Jonathan Bricker nominated for Geekwire’s Geek of the Year Award for his innovative set of quit smoking technology interventions based on acceptance and mindfulness therapy.
Health Tech Podcast: Psychologists become app developers to help people kick addictions
GeekWire | Clare McGrane | June 29, 2017
Learn about how Fred Hutchinson psychologists Dr. Jonathan Bricker and Dr. Jaimee Heffner became app developers to help people kick addictions in GeekWire's Health Tech Podcast. See if you are eligible to participate in our iCanQuit study to test the app itself.
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