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The END Perioperative Smoking Pilot Study

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02482233

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Official title

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial - "Electronic Nicotine Delivery Device (E-cigarette) for Perioperative Smoking Cessation in Veterans"

Brief summary

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The purpose of this pilot randomized trial is to determine the feasibility of e-cigarettes and telephone counselling (compared to transdermal nicotine replacement and telephone counselling) as a harm-reduction tool that may lead to increased smoking cessation in the perioperative setting in smokers presenting for elective surgery at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Secondary outcomes include acceptability of e-cigarettes over transdermal nicotine replacement, length-of-stay in the post-anesthesia care unit, hospital length-of-stay, postoperative complications within the first 30-days, and smoking status 8-weeks after randomization. This pilot study is designed to provide the preliminary data necessary to plan and fund a larger-scale randomized clinical trial that will assess the utility of e-cigarettes in achieving smoking cessation perioperatively. Our ultimate goal is to add to the limited existing data on the safety and efficacy of e-cigarette use in smoking cessation, specifically in the perioperative setting where the risks of continued smoking are great and the motivation to stop is high.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02482233
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 4
Enrollment
30 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Behavioral · Drug

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Jul 31, 2015
Primary completion
Apr 30, 2016
Completion
Aug 31, 2016
Last update posted
Mar 8, 2022

2015 – 2016

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
San Francisco VA Medical Center San Francisco California 94121

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