Understanding Tobacco and Cannabis Co-Use Practices: Initiation, Escalation, and Maintenance

Roswell Park Cancer Institute40 enrolled

Overview

This study evaluates histories among cannabis and tobacco co-users of their initiation, escalation, and maintenance of the co-use behavior.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: I. To generate detailed thematic analysis of structured interviews to provide insights into individual historical factors, social contextual factors, and product-level factors that contribute to the co-use of nicotine/tobacco and cannabis products. OUTLINE: This is an observational study. Participants complete an interview and survey on study.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Cigarette Smoking-Related Carcinoma

Interventions

Non-Interventional StudyOTHER

Non-interventional study

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 30 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * \* Adults aged 18 to 30 years old. * Currently living in the Roswell Park catchment area. * Able to speak, read, and write in English. * Currently consuming cannabis at least weekly. * Group 1: currently using cigarettes daily and not using nicotine vaping products more than one day per week. * Group 2: currently using nicotine vaping products daily and not using cigarettes more than one day per week. Exclusion Criteria: * \* Unwilling or unable to follow protocol requirements. * Individuals under the age of 18 or over 30. * Individuals not meeting product consumption criteria for inclusion items 3 and 4.

Locations (1)

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Buffalo, New York, United States

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

thematic analysis of individual narratives on nicotine and cannabis

Structured interview sessions

Time frame: Reported at baseline

Secondary Outcomes

Insight into the Social contexts of use and co-use of nictotine and cannabis

Structured interview session on escalation of use

Time frame: reported at baseline

Insight into Current practices of tobacco/cannabis use

Structured interview session on maintenance of use

Time frame: reported at baseline

Insights into factors that contribute to the co-use of nicotine/tobacco and cannabis products

Structured interview sessions on history of use

Time frame: reported at baseline

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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