Effects of Contingency Management and Nicotine Replacement Therapy on Youth Smoking
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Cigarette smoking is an important public health concern, and it is most often initiated in adolescence. Despite substantial research on smoking cessation in adults, however, relatively little effort has focused on therapeutic approaches to reduce adolescent smoking. Behavioral interventions, such as contingency management (CM), and pharmacotherapies, such as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), each have some efficacy in reducing adolescent smoking, and in adults, combination of behavioral and pharmacological approaches is more effective in reducing smoking than either one alone. Little is known about combining these therapeutic approaches in adolescent smokers, and research in this area has been hindered, in part, by the expense and complexity of large-scale clinical trials of the combined treatments and the relative dearth of a cost-effective laboratory procedure. Developing and validating a laboratory model to evaluate the combined effects of CM and pharmacological adjuncts for adolescent smoking is important because such studies can be conducted more rapidly and efficiently, and could provide information on the optimal conditions (e.g., dose) under which pharmacotherapies might augment the positive effects of CM. The investigators propose to conduct a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, between-groups, 2-week laboratory study. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of the following four groups: CM+nicotine patches, CM+placebo patches, noncontingent control (NC)+nicotine patches and NC+placebo patches. Fifteen participants will be enrolled in each of the four groups, totaling 60 participants. On day 1, participants will arrive to the laboratory for a 1-h session. During this session, breath carbon monoxide (CO) levels, saliva or urinary cotinine levels will be evaluated. Participants will also complete questionnaires on craving, withdrawal and cigarette dependence. Participants will then receive seven patches, to wear for seven days, one patch daily. Five sessions during the days 8 to 12 will serve as CM or noncontingent sessions, and participants will continue wearing patch daily. On these sessions, breath CO levels will be evaluated, and participants will have opportunity to receive payments based on their CO levels, according to the group assignment. If successful, the proposed study will provide a human laboratory model for use in studies of the combined CM and pharmacological approaches for modifying adolescent smoking behavior.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01359709
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 1
- Enrollment
- 60 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 13 Years to 21 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2011
- Primary completion
- Dec 31, 2015
- Completion
- Dec 31, 2015
- Last update posted
- May 12, 2016
2011 – 2016
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University California, Los Angeles | Los Angeles | California | 90095 | — |
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