An Alternative Dosing Schedule of Varenicline for Smoking Cessation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to explore the use of an prolonged alternative dosing schedule using varenicline for smoking cessation leading to greater quit rates and higher rates of continuous abstinence.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Collaborator: Pfizer
• Treatments: Varenicline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• currently smoking at least 15 cigarettes daily

• in good health

• able to read and speak English fluently

• have a home telephone and plan to reside in Western New York for 6 months

• willing to make quit attempt

• signed informed consent

• who planned quit attempt.

Exclusion Criteria:

• serious medical condition

• depression or mental health condition requiring treatment in the past year

• history of panic disorder, psychosis, bipolar disorder

• alcohol or drug abuse in the past year

• use of tobacco products other than cigarettes

• current use of other cessation pharmacotherapies

• pregnancy/planned pregnancy.