Effect of Smoking Cessation on Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-10-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study was a Randomized Controlled Trial conducted at Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, among pulmonary tuberculosis patients

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Dow University of Health Sciences
• Treatments: Bupropion

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• pulmonary tuberculosis patients of age 18 years or above

• registered under Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) at Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases

• reported to have smoked 100 plus cigarettes in past and currently smoking cigarettes

Exclusion Criteria:

• Extra pulmonary tuberculosis

• drug resistant tuberculosis

• pregnancy

• positive history of epilepsy