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Effects of relighting on smoke toxicant deliveries and subjective smoking measures
Status: Recruiting
The purpose of this study is to understand how relighting cigarettes affects the level of toxicants inhaled during smoking, compared to smoking non-relit cigarettes.
Sex: Male or Female
Age Group: 21 years and over
Inclusion Criteria:
• at least 21 years old
• smoking at least 5 cigarettes/day for at least 1 year
• engaging in relighting behavior – extinguishing, saving, and later relighting unfinished cigarette butts
• no attempts to quit smoking in the past month nor intentions to quit in the next month
• systolic blood pressure < 160, diastolic blood pressure < 100 and heart rate < 105 bpm
• see link to clinicaltrials.gov for complete inclusion and exclusion criteria
Exclusion Criteria:
• current or recent alcohol or drug abuse problems, use of substances of abuse (other than marijuana due to high prevalence of co-use) within the past month
• women who are planning to become pregnant, pregnant or breastfeeding
Conditions:
Cancer, Community Health
Keywords:
Cigarette, Nicotine Dependence, Smoking, Tobacco
Study Contact: Aleksandra Alcheva - alche003@umn.edu
Principal Investigator: Irina Stepanov
Phase: NA
IRB Number: STUDY00021107
See this study on ClinicalTrials.gov