Nicotine Lozenge or Tobacco-Free Snuff for Smokeless Tobacco Reduction
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2012-07-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Smokeless tobacco (ST) is a known human carcinogen. Long-term ST use is known to increase the
risk for oropharyngeal cancer. Extant literature on cigarette smokers suggests that smoking
reduction increases smoking abstinence among smokers not interested in quitting. The
overarching goal of this line of research is to develop a ST reduction intervention among ST
users not interested in quitting tobacco. Our first step is to conduct the proposed pilot
study designed to assess the efficacy of the nicotine lozenges or tobacco-free snuff for
reducing ST use or facilitating ST abstinence among ST users not interested in quitting.