{"id":5,"date":"2021-07-19T13:39:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/vapechat-study\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:09:29","slug":"vapechat-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/","title":{"rendered":"BU VapeChat Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you&#8217;re interested in participating in the VapeChat Study, please contact us through our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/contact\/\">contact<\/a> page! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VapeChat is a research study at the Center for Behavioral Science Research at Boston University. The study aims to develop and test a vaping prevention and cessation program for high school age students through a virtual reality (VR) game. This program was created by psychologists, physicians, and other behavioral scientists using the latest science on how to prevent and treat addiction. <strong>Overall, we aim to create an immersive vaping cessation and prevention program that will be fun and engaging for teens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This study is funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/\">American Heart Association<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Belinda.Borrelli\">Belinda Borrelli, Ph.D.<\/a>, a Professor at Boston University with over 25 years developing and testing interventions for health promotion and for smoking cessation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/vapechat\/files\/2022\/09\/Picture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177\" width=\"624\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re interested in participating in the VapeChat Study, please contact us through our contact page! &nbsp; VapeChat is a research study at the Center for Behavioral Science Research at Boston University. The study aims to develop and test a vaping prevention and cessation program for high school age students through a virtual reality (VR) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19543,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/vapechat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}