Effectiveness of Reducing Smoking in Facilitating Smoking Cessation in Adolescents - 2

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2007-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Currently one in five high school students smoke. Smoking can harm adolescents well before they reach adulthood by causing a number of immediate, sometimes irreversible, health risks and problems. This study will examine whether reducing smoking will facilitate quitting smoking in adolescents who have unsuccessfully attempted to quit smoking

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Has smoked at least 5 cigarettes a day for at least 6 months

• Does not regularly use other tobacco products

• Motivated to quit smoking

• Not currently using medications to quit smoking

• Willing to use an effective form of contraception throughout the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Informed that nicotine replacement therapy is medically inadvisable

• Diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 3 months prior to enrollment

• Currently taking an unstable dose of psychoactive medications

• Currently taking medications that may react with a nicotine patch

• History of alcohol or drug abuse within 3 months prior to enrollment

• Pregnant