Mobile health (mHealth) interventions delivering tailored text messages significantly improve biochemically verified continuous tobacco abstinence in patients with tuberculosis (TB).
The intervention leads to a threefold increase in smoking cessation at 6 months compared with usual care, demonstrating robust efficacy.
Mortality in TB patients who receive mHealth support for smoking cessation is significantly reduced, highlighting potential survival benefits.
mHealth is a feasible, scalable approach suitable for low-resource settings where TB burden and smoking prevalence are high.
