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Counseling and Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Helping Adult Smokers Quit Smoking

NCT00365508 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 642

Last updated 2016-03-29

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Summary

RATIONALE: Stop-smoking plans, including counseling and nicotine replacement therapy, may help smokers quit smoking. It is not yet known whether counseling and the nicotine lozenge is more effective than counseling and the nicotine patch in helping adult smokers quit smoking.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying counseling and the nicotine lozenge to see how well they work compared to counseling and the nicotine patch in helping smokers quit smoking.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

nicotine lozenge

nicotine lozenge

DRUG

nicotine patch

transdermal nicotine patch

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Fox Chase Cancer Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert A. Schnoll, PhD · Fox Chase Cancer Center - Cheltenham

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-02-28
Primary Completion
2009-08-31
Completion
2009-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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