Cigarillo Flavor
Conditions
Brief summary
This multi-method project will recruit young adults who currently use cigarillos and examine the effects of different flavored cigarillo types (concept, characterizing, tobacco) on three measures of tobacco product appeal: subjective effects (e.g., taste, enjoyment, satisfaction, reward), actual smoking behavior (e.g., number of puffs), and tobacco product purchases via a simulated experimental tobacco marketplace.
Interventions
OTHERSmoking outcomes
Participants will be assessed on several smoking outcomes including puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide
Sponsors
University of Oklahoma
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
CROSSOVER
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 34 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Ages18 to 34 * Smoke a little cigar or cigarillo (LCCs) some days or everyday (verified by brand name of the product); * Ability to read English at an 8th grade level or higher; and * No immediate plans to quit using tobacco * \> 1 prior experience, even 1 puff, with a flavored tobacco product * U.S. Citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
Exclusion criteria
* Current use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or stop smoking medication; * Pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or currently breastfeeding; * Past or current self-reported clinically significant heart disease or hypertension, or other smoking-related disease (by history) that preclude successful study completion; * Inability to abstain from nicotine/tobacco products for at least 12 hours prior to lab sessions * Report using the study cigarillo brand as their preferred brand (as this will likely unduly influence their perceptions) * Unwillingness to use untipped (e.g., plastic or wood tip) little cigars/cigarillos.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Puff volume | From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks | Volume of inhaled cigarillo puffs |
| Subjective effects from smoking | From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks | Self-reported reward from cigarillo smoking from a questionnaire. This scale has 5 questions with response options ranging from 1 - not at all to 7 - extremely. The score is averaged across the number of items. Higher ratings indicate greater psychological reward. |
| Exhaled carbon monoxide | From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks | Changes in exhaled carbon monoxide (CO boot) following cigarillo smoking |
Countries
United States
Contacts
Primary ContactProject Manager
Outcome results
None listed