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Efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: A study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial

Smoking negatively impacts public health. There are several treatments to quit smoking, and nicotine replacement treatment (NRT) reportedly doubles the smoking cessation rate, with some limitations. Acupuncture is an alternative option with proven effects on smoking cessation. However, there has bee...

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Autores principales: Sung, Won-Suk, Choi, In Suh, Moon, Jeong-Hyun, Chae, Soo-Yeon, Jo, Min-Gi, Kim, Jung-Hyun, Park, Yeon-Cheol, Kim, Eun-Jung, Baek, Yong-Hyeon, Kim, Geun-Woo, Seo, Byung-Kwan
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Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9622710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36316847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000031456
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author Sung, Won-Suk
Choi, In Suh
Moon, Jeong-Hyun
Chae, Soo-Yeon
Jo, Min-Gi
Kim, Jung-Hyun
Park, Yeon-Cheol
Kim, Eun-Jung
Baek, Yong-Hyeon
Kim, Geun-Woo
Seo, Byung-Kwan
author_facet Sung, Won-Suk
Choi, In Suh
Moon, Jeong-Hyun
Chae, Soo-Yeon
Jo, Min-Gi
Kim, Jung-Hyun
Park, Yeon-Cheol
Kim, Eun-Jung
Baek, Yong-Hyeon
Kim, Geun-Woo
Seo, Byung-Kwan
author_sort Sung, Won-Suk
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description Smoking negatively impacts public health. There are several treatments to quit smoking, and nicotine replacement treatment (NRT) reportedly doubles the smoking cessation rate, with some limitations. Acupuncture is an alternative option with proven effects on smoking cessation. However, there has been no definite report that indicates the efficacy and safety of auricular acupuncture (AA) combined with NRT on smoking cessation. METHODS: This is a randomized, assessor-blind, and pragmatic pilot study. We will recruit 40 participants who want to stop smoking and randomly allocate them into an NRT group and an NRT + AA group with a 1:1 ratio. Participants will receive NRT for 4 weeks and the NRT + AA group will receive additional AA treatment with 5 AA points (Shenmen (TF4), lung (CO14), throat (TF3), inner nose (TG4), and endocrine (CO18)) twice a week for 4 weeks. Follow-up will be conducted 1 and 3 months after intervention completion. The primary outcome will be tobacco consumption and abstinence rate determined by calculating the rate of change in cigarette use and a urine test. Secondary outcomes will be the quality of life (EuroQol-5D and visual analogue scale), nicotine dependence (Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence), nicotine withdrawal (Minnesota nicotine withdrawal scale), physical effects, satisfaction, and safety measurement (adverse events). RESULTS: We will investigate the efficacy and safety of AA combined with NRT treatment for smoking cessation. CONCLUSION: Our study will provide additional clinical evidence for AA as an adjuvant treatment for smoking cessation. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: Clinical Research Information Service (registration number: KCT0007212).
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spelling pubmed-96227102022-11-03 Efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: A study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial Sung, Won-Suk Choi, In Suh Moon, Jeong-Hyun Chae, Soo-Yeon Jo, Min-Gi Kim, Jung-Hyun Park, Yeon-Cheol Kim, Eun-Jung Baek, Yong-Hyeon Kim, Geun-Woo Seo, Byung-Kwan Medicine (Baltimore) 3800 Smoking negatively impacts public health. There are several treatments to quit smoking, and nicotine replacement treatment (NRT) reportedly doubles the smoking cessation rate, with some limitations. Acupuncture is an alternative option with proven effects on smoking cessation. However, there has been no definite report that indicates the efficacy and safety of auricular acupuncture (AA) combined with NRT on smoking cessation. METHODS: This is a randomized, assessor-blind, and pragmatic pilot study. We will recruit 40 participants who want to stop smoking and randomly allocate them into an NRT group and an NRT + AA group with a 1:1 ratio. Participants will receive NRT for 4 weeks and the NRT + AA group will receive additional AA treatment with 5 AA points (Shenmen (TF4), lung (CO14), throat (TF3), inner nose (TG4), and endocrine (CO18)) twice a week for 4 weeks. Follow-up will be conducted 1 and 3 months after intervention completion. The primary outcome will be tobacco consumption and abstinence rate determined by calculating the rate of change in cigarette use and a urine test. Secondary outcomes will be the quality of life (EuroQol-5D and visual analogue scale), nicotine dependence (Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence), nicotine withdrawal (Minnesota nicotine withdrawal scale), physical effects, satisfaction, and safety measurement (adverse events). RESULTS: We will investigate the efficacy and safety of AA combined with NRT treatment for smoking cessation. CONCLUSION: Our study will provide additional clinical evidence for AA as an adjuvant treatment for smoking cessation. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: Clinical Research Information Service (registration number: KCT0007212). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2022-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9622710/ /pubmed/36316847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000031456 Text en Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sung, Won-Suk
Choi, In Suh
Moon, Jeong-Hyun
Chae, Soo-Yeon
Jo, Min-Gi
Kim, Jung-Hyun
Park, Yeon-Cheol
Kim, Eun-Jung
Baek, Yong-Hyeon
Kim, Geun-Woo
Seo, Byung-Kwan
Efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: A study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial
title Efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: A study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial
title_full Efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: A study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial
title_fullStr Efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: A study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial
title_full_unstemmed Efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: A study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial
title_short Efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: A study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial
title_sort efficacy and safety evaluation of adjuvant auricular acupuncture for smoking cessation: a study protocol of randomized, assessor-blinded, pragmatic pilot trial
topic 3800
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9622710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36316847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000031456
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