This is a randomized, controlled, multi-center, open-label, 8-cohort parallel group study to assess changes in select biomarkers of exposure (BoE) and biomarkers of potential harm (BoPH) in generally healthy smokers switching to the study investigational products (IPs), compared to subjects who continue to smoke, undergo smoking abstinence, or have never smoked.
All subjects will participate in a baseline biomarker assessment and smokers will then be switched to exclusive use of their assigned product (cohorts 1-5), continue to smoke (cohort 6), or smoking cessation (cohort 7), and never-smokers will continue to not smoke (cohort 8). Subjects will be directed to use their assigned product exclusively for 3 months and will participate in study visits throughout the study for safety, product re-supply and collection of samples for biomarker assessments. Throughout the study, subjects will report their daily use of the study IP and/or cigarette smoking. This study will be ambulatory, with subjects in cohorts 1-7 attending a total of 4 clinic visits (one every approximately 30 days) over a period of 3 months. Subjects in cohorts 1-7 will be confined in the study site overnight the night before their Day 1 (Visit 1, baseline) and Day 90 (Visit 4) visits. The Day 30 (Visit 2) and Day 60 (Visit 3) visits will be non-residential visits for pregnancy testing (female subjects) and product usage assessments and resupply only. Subjects in cohort 8 will attend the clinic for Visit 1 and Visit 4 only, and will be confined in the clinic overnight the night before each of these visits. In addition, all subjects will attend a Screening Visit. Smokers will be asked to continue smoking their usual brand (UB) cigarettes until randomization (cohorts 1-6) or enrollment (cohort 7) at Visit 1. Never-smokers will be asked to continue not to use any tobacco or nicotine products for the entire study duration. All subjects will be confined on Visit 1 and will use their UB cigarettes ad libitum during this period (unless required to abstain for specific tests and excluding cohort 8, who will not use any nicotine or tobacco products). Exhaled breath, 24-hour urine and blood samples will be collected and evaluated for baseline BoE and BoPH. Smokers of non-menthol UB cigarettes will then be randomized to cohort 1, 5 or 6; smokers of mentholated UB cigarettes will be randomized to cohort 2, 3, 4 or 6; smokers who intend to quit smoking will be enrolled to cohort 7; and never-smokers will be enrolled to cohort 8. All subjects will be confined on Visit 4. Subjects in cohorts 1-6 will use their assigned product exclusively, ad libitum during this period (unless required to abstain for specific tests). Other than subjects in cohort 7 who are using nicotine replacement therapy as part of their smoking cessation strategy, subjects in cohorts 7 and 8 will not use any tobacco or nicotine products. Exhaled breath, 24-hour urine and blood samples will be collected and evaluated for BoE and BoPH.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
806
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Pillar Clinical Research, LLC
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Woodland International Research Group
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Woodland Research Northwest
Rogers, Arkansas, United States
Bright Research Center
Miami, Florida, United States
Infinite Clinical Trials
Morrow, Georgia, United States
AMR Lexington
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
AMR Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
QPS Bio-Kinetic
Springfield, Missouri, United States
High Point Clinical Trials Center
High Point, North Carolina, United States
Monroe Biomedical Research
Monroe, North Carolina, United States
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Total NNAL (4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol [NNAL] + glucuronides)
To quantitively assess differences in biomarker of exposure, Total NNAL, at 90 days between subjects who continue to smoke combustible cigarettes (CC) and subjects who switch to an HTP
Time frame: 90 days
Monohydroxybutyl mercapturic acid (MHBMA)
To quantitively assess differences in biomarker of exposure, MHBMA, at 90 days between subjects who continue to smoke CC and subjects who switch to an HTP
Time frame: 90 days
3-hydroxypropyl mercapturic acid (3-HPMA)
To quantitively assess differences in biomarker of exposure, 3-HPMA, at 90 days between subjects who continue to smoke CC and subjects who switch to an HTP
Time frame: 90 days
S-phenyl mercapturic acid (S-PMA)
To quantitively assess differences in biomarker of exposure, S-PMA, at 90 days between subjects who continue to smoke CC and subjects who switch to an HTP
Time frame: 90 days
Carboxyhemoglobin (COHb)
To quantitively assess differences in biomarker of exposure, COHb, at 90 days between subjects who continue to smoke CC and subjects who switch to an HTP
Time frame: 90 days
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