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. 2022 Nov 17;2022(11):CD010216. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010216.pub7

NCT04092101.

Study name Low nicotine content cigarettes in vulnerable populations: opioid use disorder
Methods RCT
Recruitment: Daily smokers who are receiving methadone or buprenorphine treatment will be recruited at University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University.
Setting: University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University, USA
Participants Estimated enrolment: 310
Inclusion criteria:
  • Maintained on opioid medication

  • 21 to 70 years old

Interventions EC: type not specified, 'normal nicotine content cigarette and ... a reduced nicotine content cigarette'
Cigarettes with varying nicotine content
E‐Cigarettes
Arm 1 Cigarettes with varying nicotine content. Altering the nicotine content of the tobacco research cigarette. Research Cigarettes #1
Arm 2: Cigarettes with varying nicotine content. Altering the nicotine content of the tobacco research cigarette. Research Cigarettes #2.
Arm 3: Cigarettes with varying nicotine content. Altering the nicotine content of the tobacco research cigarette.
E‐Cigarettes. 1) Altering the availability of e‐cigarettes; 2) Altering option to personalize the e‐liquid in the e‐cig condition
Research Cigarettes #2 plus E‐cigarettes #1
Arm 4: Cigarettes with varying nicotine content. Altering the nicotine content of the tobacco research cigarette
E‐Cigarettes. 1) Altering the availability of e‐cigarettes; 2) Altering option to personalize the e‐liquid in the e‐cig condition. Research Cigarettes #2 plus E‐cigarettes #2
Outcomes 16 weeks
Outcome measures include total cpd, cigarette demand assessed by behavioural economics‐based purchase tasks, craving, withdrawal, psychiatric symptoms, breath carbon monoxide (CO), biomarkers of tobacco toxicant exposure, brain function and structure, and airway inflammation (fractional nitric oxide concentration in exhaled breath [FeNO])
Starting date Start date: September 24 2019. Estimated completion date: July 2023
Contact information Shirley Plucinski 9788752361, shirley.plucinski@uvm.edu
 
Notes New to 2022 update