Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Cigarette Craving

Addiction Clinical Trial

Official title:

Preliminary Study of Effects of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on Cigarette Craving and Withdrawal Symptoms of Experienced Smokers in Acute Cigarette Abstinence : A Randomised Control Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02153775
• Other study ID #: IRB031/55
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 26, 2014
• Last updated: May 31, 2014
• Start date: August 2012
• Est. completion date: November 2012

Study information

• Verified date: May 2014
• Source: Chulalongkorn University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Thailand: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Cigarette craving usually occurs with unpleasant feelings, including stress. Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) may reduce level of cigarette craving and/or withdrawal symptoms.

Description:

The study reports on a study investigating the acute effects of a one-time application of progressive muscle relaxation on craving for cigarettes in smokers who were instructed to abstain from cigarettes for 3 hours.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 34
• Est. completion date: November 2012
• Est. primary completion date: November 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18 years or more

• Daily cigarette smokers

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hospitalization

• Participating in cigarette dependency treatment or trying to quit smoking with other methods

• Uncontrolled blood pressure

• Current other substance users (except alcohol)

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Addiction

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Comparison of progressive muscle relaxation and no intervention (e.g., reading newspaper of the day) for the same amount of time.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Thailand	Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University	Bangkok

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Chulalongkorn University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Thailand, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Blood pressure	Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, measured by an automated machine	Immediately after a 20-minutes session of progressive muscle relaxation	No
Other	Pulse rate	Pulse rate, measured by an automated machine	Immediately after a 20-minutes session of progressive muscle relaxation	No
Primary	Craving	Craving, a strong desire for using a substance when abstaining from substance, was measured by the Penn Alcohol Rating Scale - adapted (PACS-adapted) and the Visual Analog Scale (VAS).	Immediately after a 20-minutes session of progressive muscle relaxation	No
Secondary	Cigarette withdrawal-related and non-withdrawal related feelings	Cigarette withdrawal symptoms (i.e., anxious, hungry, feeling bad, restless) and non-withdrawal (i.e., high, stimulated, paranoid, tongue - tied) (59-61), as measured by using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS)	Immediately after a 20-minutes session of progressive muscle relaxation	No

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