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NCT ID NCT06483412
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a free online program called Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension, designed to teach high school students about the risks of tobacco and nicotine and provide resources to quit. About 2,540 students from schools that agree to use the program or continue their usual approach will take surveys over 2.5 years. The goal is to see if the program changes students' knowledge, attitudes, and actual use of tobacco or nicotine products.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 2,540 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2025
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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14 to 18 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion criteria for schools * Agree to be randomized to use the Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension curriculum or to use their current standard of care exclusive of Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension * Agree that teachers, counselors, or other school personnel will schedule an online survey prior to and after implementation of Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension or current standard of care with students caught using e-cigarettes or other tobacco products and with students self-reporting use of those products and seeking help to quit * Has access to a school nurse/school health officer/school counselor or school psychologist * Agree that parental consent, where required, will be sought from students prior to survey administration. * Agree that the study is in the wider interest of the public health of adolescents and in their schools interest. Inclusion criteria for participants Adolescents, aged 14-18, from grades 9-12, who are agreeable to participate in the study and provide assent. Exclusion Criteria: Adolescents, aged 14-18 years, from grades 9-12 who do not speak English.
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, 94304, United States
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