Attitudes and Smoking Perceptions in the Real Environment

NCT06617520 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: ASPIREST116745
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 29
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will measure appeal and reinforcement for different flavored little cigars/cigarillos (LCCs) in young adults in the laboratory and at-home, via ecological momentary assessment (daily smart-phone surveys)

Conditions

Tobacco Use

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Subjective response to smoking

  average ratings of psychological reward following smoking from Modified Cigarette Evaluation Scale. Higher scores indicate higher reward. Score responses range from 1 to 7

  Laboratory visits, up to 3 weeks after the baseline

• Number of cigarillos smoked

  The number of cigarillos smoked during each 7-day take-home period

  Daily smartphone surveys, up to 3 weeks after the baseline

Study Arms (3)

Tobacco flavor cigarillo

EXPERIMENTAL

A participant will use a tobacco flavored cigarillo at home for 7-days, as they wish, and then smoke it once in the laboratory

Other: Cigarillo flavor type

Concept flavor cigarillo

EXPERIMENTAL

A participant will use a concept flavored cigarillo at home for 7-days, as they wish, and then smoke it once in the laboratory

Other: Cigarillo flavor type

Characterizing flavor

EXPERIMENTAL

A participant will use a characterizing flavored cigarillo at home for 7-days, as they wish, and then smoke it once in the laboratory

Other: Cigarillo flavor type

Interventions

Cigarillo flavor type OTHER

Participants will complete a within-subjects design that varies by cigarillo smoked: tobacco flavor, concept flavor, and characterizing flavor

Characterizing flavor; Concept flavor cigarillo; Tobacco flavor cigarillo

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 34 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Ages18 to 34
• Smoke little cigars/cigarillos (LCCs) "some days" or "everyday"
• Ability to read English at an 8th grade level or higher
• No immediate plans to quit using tobacco

You may not qualify if:

• Current use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)
• 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 each of two study 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Oklahoma: lead
• Presbyterian Health Foundation: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

TSET Health Promotion Research Center

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73104, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Tobacco Use

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 24, 2024
• First Posted: September 27, 2024
• Study Start: April 15, 2024
• Primary Completion: March 15, 2025
• Study Completion: May 30, 2025
• Last Updated: August 27, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)