Evaluating the Episodic Future Thinking Intervention for Reducing Cigarette Consumption in Cigarette Smokers

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cigarette Smoking-Related Carcinoma

In brief

This clinical trial evaluates the effectiveness of active episodic future thinking (EFT) stimuli for reducing cigarette consumption in cigarette smokers. EFT is an innovative framing method shown to significantly activate brain regions involved in future thinking, planning, and other executive functions. Active EFT stimuli are positive events, unrelated to smoking, that participants anticipate, look forward to, and can vividly imagine happening up to 1 year in the future. Control EFT stimuli are positive past events, unrelated to smoking, that participants can vividly remember happening in the recent past. Active EFT stimuli may help reduce cigarette consumption among cigarette smokers by exposing them to personally relevant future oriented stimuli.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT05825001
Run by: Roswell Park Cancer Institute
People needed: 104
Starts: 2024-09-15
Expected to finish: 2026-06-05
Last updated by the study team: 2026-06-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Smoke >= 10 cigarettes daily
>32 on the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ)
No regular use of other tobacco products
In possession of a smartphone with text messaging capabilities
Willing to quit smoking in the next 30 days
Low socioeconomic status
Veteran of the US armed services

You may not qualify if…

Unable or unwilling to provide verbal consent
Unable or unwilling to provide data to the research team
Current use of nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion, or varenicline
Use of drugs of abuse in the past 30 days
Living in the same household as a participant already enrolled in this study
Unable or unwilling to use nicotine patches

Where it is running

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center — Buffalo, New York, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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