The Use of Nicotine Patches Together With E-cigarettes (With and Without Nicotine) for Smoking Cessation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A randomised trial to determine whether e-cigarettes (with and without nicotine) combined with nicotine patches and behavioural support can assist smokers in remaining abstinent for at least six months.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Collaborators: Auckland District Health Board; Health New Zealand Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Treatments: Nicotine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Smoke and want to quit in the next three months

• Reside in New Zealand

• At least 18 years of age

• Able to provide verbal consent

• Have access to telephone (mobile and/or landline)

• Are prepared to use a nicotine patch or a nicotine patch and e-cigarette together.

• Only one person per household is eligible.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnant women

• Women who are breastfeeding

• Current users of NRT products

• People currently enrolled in another smoking cessation programme or other cessation study

• People who have used an e-cigarette for more than one week in the last year for smoking cessation

• Current users of non-nicotine based cessation therapies (e.g. buproprion, clonidine, nortriptyline or varenicline).

• People who have had a heart attack, stroke or severe angina within the previous two weeks.

• People who self-report a history of severe allergies and/or poorly controlled asthma.