AI Conversational Agent to Improve Varenicline Adherence: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Feasibility Study

Nadia Minian   ^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Kamna Mehra   ¹ , MSc, DNB ;   Mackenzie Earle   ¹ , BSc ;   Sowsan Hafuth   ¹ , BSc ;   Ryan Ting-A-Kee   ¹ , PhD ;   Jonathan Rose   ^{1, 6} , PhD ;   Scott Veldhuizen   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Laurie Zawertailo   ^{1, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Matt Ratto   ^{7, 8} , PhD ;   Osnat C Melamed   ^{1, 2, 3, 5} , MSc, MD ;   Peter Selby   ^{1, 2, 3, 9, 10} , MBBS, MHSc

¹ INTREPID Lab, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁷ Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁸ Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁹ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada