TSET Health Promotion Research Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73012, United States
Location status: Recruiting
Recruiting
NCT Number: NCT06668350
Attitudes and Perceptions Attitudes and Smoking Perceptions in the Real Environment -II
This multi-method project will recruit young adults who currently use cigarillos and examine the effects of different flavored cigarillo types (concept, characterizing, tobacco) on three measures of tobacco product appeal: subjective effects (e.g., taste, enjoyment, satisfaction, reward), actual smoking behavior (e.g., number of puffs), and tobacco product purchases via a simulated experimental tobacco marketplace.
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Conditions
Age range
18 year–34 year
Sex eligibility
All sexes
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Primary location
Who can participate
Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Inclusion criteria
- Ages18 to 34
- Smoke a little cigar or cigarillo (LCCs) "some days" or "everyday" (verified by brand name of the product);
- Ability to read English at an 8th grade level or higher; and
- No immediate plans to quit using tobacco
- > 1 prior experience, even 1 puff, with a flavored tobacco product
- U.S. Citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
Exclusion criteria
- Current use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) or stop smoking medication;
- 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 lab 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.
Treatment and study plan
Smoking outcomes
OtherParticipants will be assessed on several smoking outcomes including puffing behavior, subjective effects, and exhaled carbon monoxide
Primary outcomes
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Puff volume
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks
Volume of inhaled cigarillo puffs
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Subjective effects from smoking
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks
Self-reported reward from cigarillo smoking from a questionnaire. This scale has 5 questions with response options ranging from 1 - not at all to 7 - extremely. The score is averaged across the number of items. Higher ratings indicate greater psychological reward.
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Exhaled carbon monoxide
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of the study at 6 weeks
Changes in exhaled carbon monoxide (CO boot) following cigarillo smoking
Study contacts
Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.
Sponsors and collaborators
Lead sponsor
University of Oklahoma
Other
Registry information
Official study title
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Appeal and Preference for Flavored Little Cigars/Cigarillos: A Multi-Method Approach to Inform Tobacco Policy
Acronym: ASPIRE-II
Important dates
- Study start
- 2025
- Primary completion
- 2029
- Study completion
- 2029
- First posted
- Oct 31, 2024
- Registry last updated
- Aug 17, 2025
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