Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes in Smokers of Lower Socioeconomic Status

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Tobacco Dependence

In brief

The overall goal of this study is to address the question of whether progressively lowering nicotine content in cigarettes can reduce or eliminate nicotine dependence in smokers of low socioeconomic status

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01928719

Run by

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

People needed

280

Starts

2015-09-09

Expected to finish

2018-02-23

Last updated by the study team

2019-05-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18-65
• Less than 16 years of education
• Able to understand, and sign consent
• Smoke >4 cigarettes/day for at least a year
• No quit attempt in prior 1 month and not planning to quit smoking within next 6 months
• Plan to live in local area for next 8 months
• Able to read and write in English
• Women not pregnant and taking steps to avoid pregnancy

You may not qualify if…

• College graduate
• Use of psychotropic drugs
• Significant medical condition, or immune system disorders, respiratory diseases, kidney or liver diseases or any other medical disorders that may affect biomarker data
• Use of any non-cigarette nicotine delivery product in the past week or smoking cessation medicine in prior 3 months
• Currently pregnant or nursing
• Uncontrolled serious psychotic illness or substance abuse
• History of difficulties providing blood samples-fainting, poor veins, anxiety

Where it is running

• George Washington University School of Public Health — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• Penn State College of Medicine — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

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