NCT02498145

Short Term Effects of Electronic Cigarettes in Tobacco Dependent Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a pilot human experimental study to evaluate whether the use of an e-cigarette affects lung function, exhaled CO levels, and quantitative tobacco cigarette consumption in active tobacco smokers. Subjects recruited from the Winchester Chest Clinic (WCC), Adult Primary Care Clinic (PCC) and the Smilow Cancer Hospital Smoking Cessation Service will be randomized to 1 of 2 groups: (1) nicotine patch and intensive counseling (standard care) plus nicotine e-cigarette; (2) nicotine patch and intensive counseling plus non-nicotine e-cigarette.

Conditions

• Smoking
• Nicotine Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nicotine e-cigarette	Patients will receive nicotine patch and intensive counseling plus e-cigarette with nicotine.
OTHER	Non-nicotine e-cigarette	Patients will receive nicotine patch and intensive counseling plus e-cigarette without nicotine.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-11-01
• First posted: 2015-07-15
• Last updated: 2017-07-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States