Conditions: Smoking
Keywords: Bioequivalence Therapeutic Equivalency
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 10
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
This is a single-dose, Open-label, Non-Randomized, 2-way Crossover Bioequivalence Study to compare nicotine release after heating of a brand name (Nicoderm CQ) and generic (Aveva skin patch) nicotine skin patches in adult smokers.

Detailed description:
This research study is intended to determine the effect of heat on FDA-approved nicotine transdermal patches and whether the heat applied will result in more nicotine being absorbed through the skin than without applying heat. This is important given that little is known about how the release of nicotine is affected by heat, particularly for generic products that are also available over the counter. This study will use nicotine patches (brand name and generic patches) that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are already sold over the counter to customers in the United States, and will not include any placebos.

Arms:
arm 1: Each subject gets two procedure days with heating applied for one hour at hours 4 and hour 8 after the application of the Nicoderm CQ nicotine patch, then followed by two procedure days with heating applied for one hour at hours 4 and hour 8, after the application of the Aveva nicotine patch (total of four Procedure days)

Interventions: intervention 1: Nicoderm patch first, then Aveva patch
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: This is a single group assignment where each of 10 adult smokers completes 4 procedure days using a Nicoderm CQ nicotine patch (2 days) followed by the application of a generic Aveva patch (2 days). For each patch, heating is applied for one hour at hour 4 on the first procedure day and at hour 8 in the second procedure day (2 days per patch, or a total of 4 days per subject).

Protocol document: