Bupropion Alone or Combined With Nicotine Gum

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2002-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Focus of this study was to determine if bupropion was more effective for smoking cessation when used alone or combined with nicotine gum.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Collaborator: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Treatments: Bupropion; Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Smoke 10 or more cigarettes per day

• Motivated to quit

• No physical or mental health issues that would prevent participation

• Not pregnant or willing to prevent pregnancy during treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Carbon monoxide (CO) breath test score below 10 parts per million (ppm)

• Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) score greater than 16

• Heavy alcohol use

• History of eating disorder

• Suicidality