NCT06617520

Attitudes and Smoking Perceptions in the Real Environment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 29 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Oklahoma · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 34 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will measure appeal and reinforcement for different flavored little cigars/cigarillos (LCCs) in young adults in the laboratory and at-home, via ecological momentary assessment (daily smart-phone surveys)

Detailed description

Participants will attend 4 laboratory sessions that differ by cigarillo smoked: own brand and a then commercially available study cigarillo (Garcia y Vega game cigarillo) in tobacco flavor, concept flavor, and characterizing flavor. Consistent with our work and other's published work8-10, a baseline (BL) period will measure appeal to smoking one's usual brand cigarillo in their home environment for 7 days and then once in the laboratory (\>12-hour abstinence), at the end of the 7 days. Participants will then undergo 3 experimental conditions (counterbalanced, within-subjects): (1) 7 days smoking a concept flavored study cigarillo; (2) 7 days smoking a characterizing flavored study cigarillo; and (3) 7 days smoking a tobacco flavored study cigarillo. Participants will be instructed to switch their usual brand cigarillo for the assigned study cigarillo for each 7-day period. Other tobacco use will be allowed during that time without specific instruction to model real-world behavior. On the last day of each 7-day period of "take home" use, abstinent participants (\>12 hours) will smoke the assigned study cigarillo in the lab ad libitum, where subjective effects (e.g., satisfaction, craving reduction, psychological reward, throat hit), smoke exposure (CO boost), and behavior (e.g., number of puffs) will be assessed During each 7-day period of exposure, participants will complete assessments of cigarillo and other tobacco use and subjective effects to cigarillo use via once daily EMA.

Conditions

• Tobacco Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cigarillo flavor type	Participants will complete a within-subjects design that varies by cigarillo smoked: tobacco flavor, concept flavor, and characterizing flavor

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-15
• Primary completion: 2025-03-15
• Completion: 2025-05-30
• First posted: 2024-09-27
• Last updated: 2025-08-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States