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Testing a Full Substitution Therapy Approach As Treatment of Tobacco Dependence

NCT00390923 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2013-08-29

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Summary

This study will test a new medication strategy designed to help smokers quit. It will combine selegiline, a drug currently approved and available for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, with a nicotine skin patch. Forty nicotine-dependent smokers will enrolled in this study. Twenty will receive placebo (inactive pill) plus nicotine patch, and twenty will receive selegiline plus nicotine patch. Once enrolled in the study, subjects will visit the Nicotine Dependence Clinic at CAMH on a weekly basis for assessment of smoking behavior, a brief health check, collection of breath and urine samples (necessary to drug levels and nicotine levels), and receive brief individual counseling designed to help them stop smoking. The medication phase of this study lasts 9 weeks. A follow-up visit will be conducted six months after trial completion. At that point, health and behavioral measures will be re-assessed.

Conditions

  • Nicotine Dependence

Interventions

DRUG

Selegiline + nicotine replacement therapy

Participants will begin selegiline once a day during Week 1, and dose will be graduated to full study dosage (10 mg/day) by adding an evening intake (a.m. and p.m. dosing) for Weeks 2-8. Day 15 of the trial represents target quit day and the transdermal nicotine patch (21 mg/24hr) will be applied at this time. Patches will be worn in conjunction with study medication for Weeks 3-8, after which the patch will be removed and study medication tapered throughout Week 9.

DRUG

placebo + nicotine replacement therapy

Participants will begin placebo once a day during Week 1, and dose will be graduated to full study dosage (10 mg/day) by adding an evening intake (a.m. and p.m. dosing) for Weeks 2-8. Day 15 of the trial represents target quit day and the transdermal nicotine patch (21 mg/24hr) will be applied at this time. Patches will be worn in conjunction with study medication for Weeks 3-8, after which the patch will be removed and study medication tapered throughout Week 9.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Tobacco Control Research Initiative

    collaborator OTHER

  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bernard Le Foll, MD, PhD · Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-07-31
Primary Completion
2008-04-30
Completion
2008-04-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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