Effects of e-Cigarettes on Perceptions and Behavior - Remote Substudy # 1

University of Southern California

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cigarette Smoking; Electronic Cigarette Use; Vaping; Cigarette Use, Electronic

Treatments: Other: Control Marketing Strategies; Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05958979

Substudy #1: UP-20-00744

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study assess the ways in which e-cigarette product characteristics, such as marketing strategies, impact user experience to inform potential regulations.

Full description

There are three primary objectives to the study: (1) Determine which dimensions of e-cigarette product diversity differentially affect product appeal in the overall population of tobacco product users as well as affect product appeal across young adult e-cigarette users and middle-age/older adult smokers; (2) Determine which dimensions of e-cigarette product diversity differentially affect product appeal in the overall population of tobacco product users as well as affect abuse liability in young adult e-cigarette users and the ability to resist smoking in adult smokers; (3) Determine the affect of product characteristics on e-cigarette nicotine delivery profile.

Enrollment: 601 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Vapers/E-cigarette Users

• Regular use of e-cigarettes/vaping devices containing nicotine

Cigarette Smokers

• Regular use of cigarettes containing nicotine

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant or planning to become pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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601 participants in 20 patient groups

E-cigarette e-liquid 1

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 2

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 3

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 4

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 5

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 6

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 7

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 8

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 9

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 10

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 11

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 12

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 13

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 14

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 15

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 16

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 17

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 18

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 19

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies

E-cigarette e-liquid 20

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Experimental Marketing Strategies

Other: Control Marketing Strategies