Nicotine Reduction Pilot Study To determine if a price differential based on nicotine content reduces cigarette consumption in smokers who are unmotivated to quit.

Nicotine Reduction Study using very low nicotine content cigarettes (VLNC) in smokers who are unmotivated to quit

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12612000914864

Acronym

ENRIQ- Evaluation of Nicotine Reduction in Queenstown

Enrollment

Registered

2012-08-28

Start date

2012-11-06

Completion date

2012-12-15

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

In order to reach the government’s goal to have a smokefree New Zealand by 2025, radical changes need to be made at both the policy and practical level as the ‘business as usual’ approach to smoking cessation will not achieve the goal. A nicotine reduction strategy is one approach that may help reduce the level of nicotine dependence in smokers, resulting in a greater chance of quitting. However, insufficient data exist on what would happen if a nicotine reduction policy was implemented, or what form such a policy should take.

Interventions

Intervention arm: Very low nicotine content (VLNC) cigarettes will be given to the intervention group for eight weeks. The number of VLNC provided will be based on the number of nicotine containing cigarettes they usually smoke at baseline. Each participant will be able to smoke as many of the VLNC as they wish during the eight weeks intervention.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

they do not wish to quit smoking in the next three months they are at least 18 years of age they are daily smokers their time to first cigarette is within 30 minutes of waking they are able to provide written consent they have a mobile phone they can use daily they have a mobile phone that is capable of receiving and sending text messages they intend to reside in the Otago/Southland region for the next six months

Exclusion criteria

Pregnant women Women who are breastfeeding Current users of NRT products (including electronic cigarettes with nicotine) Currently enrolled in a quit smoking programme (such as Quitline) Current users of non-nicotine based cessation therapies (e.g. buproprion, clonidine, nortriptyline or varenicline) Only use non-cigarette tobacco products (e.g. pipes, cigars). One person per household can be recruited into the study.

Outcome results