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Administrative data

NCT number NCT02415270
Other study ID # STUDY00001996
Secondary ID 5P50DA036107-02
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date January 2016
Est. completion date January 1, 2017

Study information

Verified date July 2018
Source Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The overall objectives of this clinical study are to determine in smokers the short term effects of switching to tobacco products that deliver low levels of nicotine or reactive oxygen/nitrogen species (ROS/RNS) on smoking behavior and biomarkers of tobacco smoke exposure and oxidative stress.


Description:

Researchers at Penn State Hershey are seeking healthy adult cigarette smokers between 21-65 who smoke any of the following brands on a regular basis: Marlboro Red, Marlboro Menthol, Pall Mall Red, Pall Mall Menthol, Kool Menthol, Salem Menthol, L&M Menthol, Pyramid Red, Newport Red, Newport Menthol.

If you smoke one of these brand styles on a regular basis you may be eligible to participate in a compensated short term study on health and smoking behavior at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

Study participation lasts 22 days, with 4 study visits at the Medical Center. Smokers are asked to use their usual brand for one week and then switch to 1 of 3 brands for the remaining two weeks. The three brands participants are randomly assigned to after the first week of participation are either Group 1. reduced nicotine content cigarette (Spectrum Research Cigarettes) or Group 2. reduced oxidant cigarette (American Spirit) or assigned to Group 3. usual brand. Whichever group you are assigned to, you will be asked to smoke only these until the end of the study. All cigarettes following visit 1 will be provided free of charge.

Study overview:

Visit 1/ Duration: 60 minutes Provide a blood and urine sample Complete a 20 minute interview Use a simple, hand held smoking device to smoke all cigarettes for 2 days Collect cigarette butts on 1 day

Visit 2: Randomized Phase /Duration: 20-30 minutes Provide a blood and urine sample Complete a 10 minute interview Use a simple, hand held smoking device to smoke all cigarettes for 2 days Collect cigarette butts on 1 day

Visit 3/ Duration: 20-30 minutes Provide a blood and urine sample Complete a 10 minute interview Use a simple, hand held smoking device to smoke all cigarettes for 2 days Collect cigarette butts on 1 day

Visit 4/ Duration: 20-30 minutes Provide a blood and urine sample Complete a 10 minute interview Sign compensation form

For information on additional tobacco studies being conducted at Penn State Hershey, please call 1-844-207-6392

*This research is being conducted under the investigator John Richie at Penn State Hershey; 500 University Drive Hershey, PA


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 37
Est. completion date January 1, 2017
Est. primary completion date January 2017
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 21 Years to 65 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Age 21-65

- Smoke 10 cigarettes/day or more for at least one year

- Read and write in English

- Menthol and nonmenthol smokers who use relatively high nicotine and ROS/RNS cigarettes

- Able to understand and provide consent to study procedures

- Plan to live in the local area for the next month

- Women not pregnant or nursing and taking steps to avoid pregnancy

- No quit attempt in the last one months and not planning to quit in the next month

Exclusion Criteria:

- Currently pregnant or nursing

- Unstable or significant medical condition, such as COPD or kidney failure, that is likely to affect biomarker data

- Use of non-cigarette nicotine delivery product in the past week (included cigars, pipes, chew, snus, hookah, e-cig, and marijuana)

- Currently reducing or planning to reduce cigarette consumption in the next month

- Use of smoking cessation medicine in the past 3 months

- History of difficulties providing blood samples: fainting, poor veins, anxiety, etc.

- Uncontrolled serious psychotic illness or substance abuse or inpatient treatment for these in the last 6 months (substance abuse includes weekly, almost daily or daily use of other illegal drugs and prescription drugs that are not being used for medically prescribed purposes or alcohol abuse that would hinder the participant's ability to participate)

- Significant medical condition, i.e. stroke, MI, cancer, in the last month

- Currently using illegal drugs

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes
Human topography data will show if smokers smoke their cigarettes differently from baseline following randomization. Select biosamples of participants will be used to analyze how biomarkers differ among groups
Reduced ROS/RNS
Human topography data will show if smokers smoke their cigarettes differently from baseline following randomization. Select biosamples of participants will be used to analyze how biomarkers differ among groups
Control
Human topography data will show if smokers change the way they smoke due to being in a research study. Select biosamples of participants will be used to analyze how biomarkers differ among groups

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Penn State Hershey Hershey Pennsylvania

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Smoking Topography measures of smoking topography include parameters such as puff volume, frequency and intensity as measured using a smoking topography instrument. 8 days
Secondary Biomarkers of oxidative stress biomarkers of oxidative stress are as followed: glutathionylated and cysteinylated proteins in blood and F2-isoprostanes and 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG). 4 times over the 22 day study period
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