Addiction Potential, Flavoring Content, and Substitutability of Concept Flavored Cigarillos
University of Oklahoma
Summary
This clinical trial will recruit young adults who currently use cigarillos and examine the smoking behavior and perceptions of different flavored cigarillos, product ingredients/additives impacting these perceptions, and simulated tobacco use outcomes (quitting, switching) in various policy scenarios where different types of flavors are available on the market.
Description
This clinical trial will isolate the unique effects of concept descriptors on increased cigarillo use and appeal among experienced young adult cigarillo users. The study will seek to determine the addiction potential of concept flavored cigarillos by examining associations of cigarillo flavor type (concept, characterizing, tobacco) and cigarillo flavoring additives/ingredients to complementary measures of product appeal: subjective effects (e.g., satisfaction, reward, taste), actual smoking behavior (e.g., number of puffs), and simulated cigarillo purchasing, other tobacco product substitution…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–24 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Ages 18 to 24 2. Report past 30-day use of a cigarillo 3. Ability to read English at least an 8th grade level 4. No immediate plans to quit using tobacco 5. At least 1 prior experience with a flavored tobacco product 6. U.S. Citizen or permanent resident of the United States. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Current use of smoking cessation pharmacotherapy or nicotine replacement therapy; 2. Pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or currently breastfeeding; 3. Past or current clinically significant heart disease or hypertension, or other smoking-related disease that could precl…
Interventions
- OtherCigarillo brand 1
Participants will be assessed on puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide when assigned to using one of three cigarillo brands. Additives and ingredients of the cigarillo used will also be assessed
- OtherCigarillo brand 2
Participants will be assessed on puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide when assigned to using one of three cigarillo brands. Additives and ingredients of the cigarillo used will also be assessed
- OtherCigarillo brand 3
Participants will be assessed on puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide when assigned to using one of three cigarillo brands. Additives and ingredients of the cigarillo used will also be assessed
Locations (2)
- University of Oklahoma Health CampusOklahoma City, Oklahoma
- West Virginia UniversityMorgantown, West Virginia