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Intake behavior of nicotine in venous blood in electric cigarettes in the acute phase

Conditions
F17.2
Registration Number
DRKS00017432
Lead Sponsor
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Klinikums der Ludwigs-Maximilians Universität München
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
45
Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion / exclusion criteria
General inclusion criteria:
• Subjects between 18 and 55 years
• 12-hour abstinence (both e-cigarette users and tobacco smokers)
• CO < 5ppm; Measurement in the expired air using micro-smokerlyzer (Bedfont Scientific Ltd.)
• capacity to consent
Special inclusion criteria for the electric cigarette users
• experienced e-cigarette user for > 3 months, daily consumption
• no consumption of conventional tobacco cigarettes for > 3 months
Special inclusion criteria for smokers
• Smoker for > 5 years daily > 10 cigarettes / day

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria
• Patients under the age of 18 or over 55 years
• acute psychiatric disorders according to ICD-10 / DSM IV
• other serious psychiatric illnesses
• acute suicidality
• existing pregnancy
• Drug, drug or alcohol abuse at the time of the study
• current malignancies in the last 5 years
• severe internal diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, such as
-- manifest arterial hypertension
-- severe heart disease (DCM, history of a heart attack)
-- pacemaker
-- respiratory failure
• severe active infectious diseases
• CO> 5 ppm in the expirium
• other circumstances that, in the investigator's opinion, militate against patient participation in this study

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Assessment of the speed and concentration of nicotine infiltration of the E-cigarette JUUL compared to the conventional tobacco cigarette in the acute phase at 5 measurement times.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Assessment of the addictive potential, since drug infiltration and concentration strongly correlate with the addictive potential.
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