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Effect of Yoga on Reducing Craving in Tobacco Dependent Individuals

NCT06488443 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 96

Last updated 2025-12-02

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Summary

Yoga is a culturally acceptable practice that can reduce craving and help people quit tobacco. There is a need to evaluate the feasibility of implementation of a well- designed yoga protocol to address craving in individuals who use tobacco in India.

Conditions

  • Tobacco Dependence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Yoga

Participants in yoga arm will receive intervention from an instructor who would be trained in the intervention by the yoga adviser.All the yoga exercises selected for this study are low-impact and involve highly controlled movements. All yoga exercises will be taught and supervised by a skilled yoga-instructor. The yoga-instructor will take great care to emphasize to participants that they should not go beyond their usual range of motion/comfort for any of the yoga exercises.

BEHAVIORAL

WHO 5As model intervention

WHO 5As model to help patients ready to quit. The five major steps to intervention are the "5 A's": Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health

    collaborator NIH

  • St.John's Medical College and Hospital

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vishwajit Nimgaonkar, MD, PhD · University of Pittburgh

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-11-01
Primary Completion
2026-05-31
Completion
2026-12-31

Countries

  • India

Study Locations

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