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- Title
Reduced nicotine content cigarettes and use of alternative nicotine products: exploratory trial.
- Authors
Hatsukami, Dorothy K.; Luo, Xianghua; Dick, Laura; Kangkum, Margarita; Allen, Sharon S.; Murphy, Sharon E.; Hecht, Stephen S.; Shields, Peter G.; al'Absi, Mustafa
- Abstract
Aims To compare the use of alternative nicotine products, smoking behavior and tobacco biomarker exposure in smokers unwilling to quit who were assigned randomly to normal nicotine content (NNC) cigarettes or very low nicotine content (VLNC) cigarettes. Design Randomized, parallel-arm 8-week study with assignment to VLNC (VLNC 1, n = 53) or NNC (NNC, n = 27) with access to non-cigarette combusted and non-combusted tobacco/nicotine products or to VLNC with access to only non-combusted products (VLNC2, n = 56). Setting Clinics in Minnesota, USA. Participants Smokers uninterested in quitting smoking with a mean [± standard deviation (SD)] age of 44 (± 14) years and smoking 16 (± seven) cigarettes/day; 51% female, 72% white. Measurements During the experimental period, the measures taken included: rate of alternative products used, amount of and abstinence from combusted tobacco used and tobacco exposure biomarkers. Findings There were higher rates of non-combusted alternative tobacco/nicotine product use in both VLNC conditions versus the NNC condition [rate ratio (RR) = 2.18, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.94, 2.46 and RR = 1.64, 95% CI = 1.46, 1.85, respectively] and in VLNC1 versus VLNC2 condition (RR = 1.33, 95% CI = 1.23, 1.44), accompanied by reduced biomarkers of exposure primarily in VLNC2 condition compared to NNC condition ( Ps < 0.05). Fewer combusted products were smoked at almost all visits ( Ps ≤ 0.02) and there were higher rates of abstinence for both VLNC conditions compared with the NNC condition (VLNC1 versus NNC: RR = 9.96, 95% CI = 5.01, 19.81; VLNC2 versus NNC: RR = 11.23, 95% CI = 5.74, 21.97). Conclusion The offer of, and instructions to use, reduced nicotine content cigarettes during an 8-week period led to greater use of alternative tobacco/nicotine products compared with continued use of normal nicotine cigarettes and also reductions in smoking rates.
- Subjects
MINNESOTA; NICOTINE replacement therapy; SMOKING; REHABILITATION of cigarette smokers; TOBACCO products; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of nicotine; SMOKING cessation; ADULTS; TOBACCO industry; PREVENTION; EQUIPMENT &; supplies; SUBSTANCE abuse; LAW; GOVERNMENT policy; BEHAVIOR; BIOMARKERS; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; NICOTINE; POISSON distribution; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; TOBACCO; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; REPEATED measures design; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Addiction, 2017, Vol 112, Issue 1, p156
- ISSN
0965-2140
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/add.13603