NCT04075682

Cigarette Pack Inserts for Smoking Cessation

Evaluation of Cigarette Package Inserts for Enhanced Communication With Smokers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 387 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of South Carolina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will test whether cigarette package inserts (i.e., small printed leaflets inside cigarette packs) with messages about the benefits of cessation and tips for quitting can help smokers quit. To do this, the investigators will conduct a 2 X 2 between-subject experiment in which 380 smokers will be randomized into one of four labeling groups: 1. no inserts or pictorial health warning labels (HWLs); 2. inserts only; 3. pictorial HWLs only; 4. inserts \& pictorial HWLs. Smokers will be given a 14-day supply of their preferred cigarette brand with packs labeled according to their experimental group. Participants will answer a brief survey at the end of each day and four other times each day, using ecological momentary assessment approaches. The investigators will study whether smokers in each group experience different psychological responses and behaviors associated with smoking cessation.

Conditions

• Smoking Cessation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Inserts with efficacy messages	Four rotating inserts (i.e., small, printed messages) with messages about cessation benefits (i.e., response efficacy) and tips to quit (i.e., self-efficacy messages) will be placed inside cigarette packs.
OTHER	Pictorial warnings on packs	Four rotating pictorial warnings illustrating the harms of smoking will be printed on labels that will placed on and cover approximately 50% of the cigarette packs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-08-01
• Primary completion: 2021-06-29
• Completion: 2021-06-29
• First posted: 2019-09-03
• Last updated: 2024-05-13
• Results posted: 2024-05-13

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States