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GeoScan and Remote Geo Smoking Study: Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Smokers' Exposure to Retail Environments

NCT04279483 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 343

Last updated 2025-08-14

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Summary

The purpose of the study is to learn more about the relationships between the brain, behavior, and natural daily exposure to particular environments, including the places where smokers regularly spend time and specific retail outlets.

Conditions

  • Smoking, Tobacco
  • Smoking
  • Smoking, Cigarette

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Tobacco retailer

Assigned to make a small (\~$3.00) purchase from a tobacco retail store(s) using a study-provided debit card during each retail environment visit

BEHAVIORAL

Non-tobacco retailer

Assigned to make a small (\~$3.00) purchase from a store that does not sell tobacco (non-tobacco retailer) using a study-provided debit card during each retail environment visit.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • New York University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Stanford University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Emily Falk, PhD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-17
Primary Completion
2024-06-10
Completion
2024-06-10

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT04279483 on ClinicalTrials.gov