Attitudes and Perceptions Attitudes and Smoking Perceptions in the Real Environment -II

NCT ID: NCT06668350

Last Updated: 2025-08-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 190 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-06-27
• Study Completion Date: 2029-06-30

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.

Conditions

Cigarillo Flavor

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Concept flavored cigarillo

Participants will smoke a concept flavored cigarillo in the lab

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Smoking outcomes

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participants will be assessed on several smoking outcomes including puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide

Characterizing flavored cigarillo

Participants will smoke a characterizing flavored cigarillo

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Smoking outcomes

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participants will be assessed on several smoking outcomes including puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide

Tobacco flavored cigarillo

Participants will smoke a tobacco flavored cigarillo

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Smoking outcomes

Intervention Type: OTHER

Participants will be assessed on several smoking outcomes including puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide

Interventions

Smoking outcomes

Participants will be assessed on several smoking outcomes including puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 34 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Oklahoma

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

TSET Health Promotion Research Center

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Project Manager

Role: CONTACT

heal-lab@ouhsc.edu

1-405-271-7759

Facility Contacts

Project Manager

Role: primary

heal-lab@ouhsc.edu

405-271-1903

Other Identifiers

CHERC-24-1160021-01-CHERC

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

ACS CHERC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id