• Preventive medicine · Dec 2022

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Smoking abstinence and cessation-related outcomes one month after an immediate versus gradual reduction in nicotine content of cigarettes.

    • Elias M Klemperer, Xianghua Luo, Joni Jensen, Mustafa al'Absi, Paul M Cinciripini, Jason D Robinson, David J Drobes, Joseph McClernon, Andrew A Strasser, Lori G Strayer, Ryan Vandrey, Neal L Benowitz, Eric C Donny, and Dorothy K Hatsukami.
    • Vermont Center on Behavior & Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, United States of America. Electronic address: elias.klemperer@med.uvm.edu.
    • Prev Med. 2022 Dec 1; 165 (Pt B): 107175107175.

    AbstractThe United States Food and Drug Administration has the authority to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes to minimal or non-addictive levels and could do so immediately or gradually over time. A large clinical trial compared the two approaches. This secondary analysis assesses abstinence and cessation-related outcomes one month after the trial concluded, when participants no longer had access to very low nicotine content (VLNC) research cigarettes. Smokers not interested in quitting (N = 1250) were recruited for the parent trial from 2014 to 2016 across 10 sites throughout the US and randomized to a 20-week study period during which they immediately switched to VLNC cigarettes, gradually transitioned to VLNC cigarettes with five monthly dose reductions, or smoked normal nicotine research cigarettes (control). At the one-month follow-up, both immediate and gradual reduction resulted in greater mean cigarette-free days (4.7 and 4.6 respectively) than the control group (3.2, both p < .05). Immediate reduction resulted in fewer mean cigarettes per day (CPD = 10.3) and lower Fagerström Test for Cigarette Dependence (FTCD = 3.7) than the gradual (CPD = 11.7, p = .001; FTCD = 3.8, p = .039) and control (CPD = 13.5, p < .001; FTCD = 4.0, p < .001) groups. Compared to controls, gradual reduction resulted in reduced CPD (p = .012) but not FTCD (p = .13). Differences in CO-verified 7-day point-prevalence abstinence were not significant. Findings demonstrate that switching to VLNC cigarettes resulted in reduced smoking and nicotine dependence severity that was sustained for at least a month after the VLNC trial period in smokers who were not interested in cessation. The greatest harm reduction endpoints were observed in those who immediately transitioned to VLNC cigarettes.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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