Effectiveness of Reducing Smoking in Facilitating Smoking Cessation in Adolescents - 2

Completed · Phase 2/Phase 3

Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Use Disorder

In brief

Currently one in five high school students smoke. Smoking can harm adolescents well before they reach adulthood by causing a number of immediate, sometimes irreversible, health risks and problems. This study will examine whether reducing smoking will facilitate quitting smoking in adolescents who have unsuccessfully attempted to quit smoking

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00158158

Run by

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

People needed

200

Starts

2005-09-01

Expected to finish

2007-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-01-10

Who can join

Age: 13 and older, up to 19. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Has smoked at least 5 cigarettes a day for at least 6 months
• Does not regularly use other tobacco products
• Motivated to quit smoking
• Not currently using medications to quit smoking
• Willing to use an effective form of contraception throughout the study

You may not qualify if…

• Informed that nicotine replacement therapy is medically inadvisable
• Diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 3 months prior to enrollment
• Currently taking an unstable dose of psychoactive medications
• Currently taking medications that may react with a nicotine patch
• History of alcohol or drug abuse within 3 months prior to enrollment
• Pregnant

Where it is running

• University of Minnesota — Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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