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This study tests whether home visits by female community health volunteers plus regular SMS messages can help adults in Pokhara, Nepal, better control high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and smoking. About 2100 participants are split into two groups: one gets the home visits an…

This study tests whether the drug nivolumab (Opdivo) can reverse early, pre-cancerous changes in the lungs of current or former heavy smokers who are at high risk for lung cancer. Nineteen participants receive nivolumab to see if their lung tissue improves over six months. The go…

This study tests whether a program of counselling and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can help e-cigarette users quit vaping. 180 regular vapers will be randomly assigned to receive either counselling alone or counselling plus NRT. Researchers will track self-reported quitting…

This study from Yale University is testing how a ban on menthol in cigarettes and e-cigarettes might affect people who currently smoke menthol cigarettes. Researchers will give 150 adult smokers either a ban on menthol cigarettes only or a total ban on menthol in both cigarettes …

This study was designed to see if asking smokers to imagine positive future events would change how they value losses and how much they smoke. It planned to enroll adults who smoke at least 5 cigarettes daily. However, the study was withdrawn before any participants were enrolled…

This study looks at how different tobacco products, like cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco, affect the way skin wounds heal. Researchers will measure skin temperature, blood flow, and signs of inflammation in 60 participants, including a non-smoking group. The goal …