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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers Results available

Neural Basis of Eating Behavior in Abstinent Smokers

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03438188

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Brief summary

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The purpose of this research study is to better understand why people gain weight when they quit smoking by examining food intake and changes in brain activity in smokers when they are smoking as usual compared to when they have been deprived of cigarettes (i.e., have not smoked for 4 days) as compared to a non-smoker control group.

Study identification

NCT ID: NCT03438188
Recruitment status: Completed
Study type: Interventional
Phase: Not applicable
Lead sponsor: University of Pennsylvania; Other
Enrollment: 82 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Nicotine Use Disorder

Interventions

Practice Quit Attempt Other

Other

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range: 18 Years to 45 Years
Sex: All
Healthy volunteers: Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date: Mar 1, 2018 (Actual)
Primary completion: Apr 1, 2023 (Actual)
Completion: Aug 30, 2023 (Actual)
Last update posted: Feb 5, 2025

2018 – 2023

United States locations

U.S. sites: 1
U.S. states: 1
U.S. cities: 1

Facility	City	State	ZIP	Site status
University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	19104	—

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