Attitudes and Perceptions Attitudes and Smoking Perceptions in the Real Environment -II
- Conditions
- Cigarillo Flavor
- Registration Number
- NCT06668350
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Oklahoma
- Brief Summary
This multi-method project will recruit young adults who currently use cigarillos and examine the effects of different flavored cigarillo types (concept, characterizing, tobacco) on three measures of tobacco product appeal: subjective effects (e.g., taste, enjoyment, satisfaction, reward), actual smoking behavior (e.g., number of puffs), and tobacco product purchases via a simulated experimental tobacco marketplace.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 190
- Ages18 to 34
- Smoke a little cigar or cigarillo (LCCs) "some days" or "everyday" (verified by brand name of the product);
- Ability to read English at an 8th grade level or higher; and
- No immediate plans to quit using tobacco
- > 1 prior experience, even 1 puff, with a flavored tobacco product
- U.S. Citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
- Current use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or stop smoking medication;
- Pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or currently breastfeeding;
- Past or current self-reported clinically significant heart disease or hypertension, or other smoking-related disease (by history) that preclude successful study completion;
- Inability to abstain from nicotine/tobacco products for at least 12 hours prior to lab sessions
- Report using the study cigarillo brand as their preferred brand (as this will likely unduly influence their perceptions)
- Unwillingness to use "untipped" (e.g., plastic or wood tip) little cigars/cigarillos.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- CROSSOVER
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Puff volume From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks Volume of inhaled cigarillo puffs
Subjective effects from smoking From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks Self-reported reward from cigarillo smoking from a questionnaire. This scale has 5 questions with response options ranging from 1 - not at all to 7 - extremely. The score is averaged across the number of items. Higher ratings indicate greater psychological reward.
Exhaled carbon monoxide From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks Changes in exhaled carbon monoxide (CO boot) following cigarillo smoking
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
TSET Health Promotion Research Center
🇺🇸Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States