Controlled Study of the Ability of a Smokefree Tobacco Product to Increase the Quit Rate Among Cigarette Smokers
Completed · Phase 4 · Has a placebo group
Conditions studied: Cigarette Smoking
In brief
The study aims to assess if use of a low-nitrosamine, Swedish, smokefree tobacco product for oral use ("snus") can increase the quit rate among cigarette smokers who wish to stop smoking
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00843622
- Run by
- Swedish Match AB
- People needed
- 250
- Starts
- 2009-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2010-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2014-06-17
Who can join
Age: 25 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Cigarette smoker who smoke more than 9 cigarettes per day (average during past month)
- Daily smoking more than 1 year
- Motivated to quit smoking using a smokefree tobacco product
- Good general health
You may not qualify if…
- Use of smokefree/smokeless tobacco during past 6 months or any type of pharmaceutical product for smoking cessation during past 3 months
- Unable to refrain from nicotine replacement therapy during the study
- Current oral condition that could be made worse by study interventions
- History of clinically significant renal, hepatic, neurological, or chronic pulmonary disease that in the judgement of the investigator might preclude participation
- History of significant cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction, within the last 3 months, significant cardiac arrythmias, or poorly controlled hypertension that in the judgement of the investigator might preclude participation
- History of alcohol or substance abuse other than cigarette smoking within the past year
Where it is running
- Covance Clinical Research Unit — Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
- Covance Clinical Research Unit — Evansville, Indiana, United States
- Covance Clinical Research Unit — Portland, Oregon, United States
- Covance Clinical Research Unit — Austin, Texas, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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