Impact of Semaglutide on Tobacco Use and Related Health Behaviors

Korábbi kezelés

• current use of nicotine replacement therapy or other quit smoking medication;

Más betegség

• Severe psychiatric disturbance precluding successful completion of the study, defined as
  • Ever schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder (assessed at the screener and again at baseline); b. Psychiatric hospitalization in the past year (assessed at the screener and again at baseline); c. Suicidal ideation in the past month or any past year suicide attempt (assessed at baseline) i. Suicidal ideation determined by the Ask Suicide Screening Questions (ASQ) Question 1-3 ii. Any suicide attempts in the past year (ASQ 4) iii. Suicidal intent and plan (ASQ 5) iv. PHQ-9 score of 20 or higher, indicating severe depression or PHQ-9 score of 15 or higher if participant also indicates worsening of symptoms in the past 3 months.
  • Worsening symptoms of depression or anxiety in the past 3-months (as determined by Medical History Questionnaire).
• personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome, and personal history of pancreatitis, type I or type II diabetes, diabetic retinopathy, or gastroparesis;
• history of bariatric surgery;
• History of significant gastrointestinal disorder, including inflammatory bowel disease or gastrointestinal malignancy (celiac disease is accepted if in remission), diverticular disease, severe gastroparesis, diagnosis of mega-rectum or colon, congenital anorectal malformation, or clinically significant rectocele, intestinal or colonic obstruction, or suspected intestinal obstruction, intestinal resection (with an exception for appendectomy, cholecystectomy and inguinal hernia repair), pancreatitis, active biliary disease
• Any other reason or clinical condition that the investigators judge would interfere with study participation and/or be unsafe for a possible subject.
• Known or suspected allergy to semaglutide, any of the product components, or any other GLP-1 analogue.

Laborértékek

• Current or past 6-month use of a GLP-1 agonist or any other weight-lowering/anti-obesity or glucose-lowering medications. These include (but are not limited to: sulfonylurea, insulin, metformin, thiazolidinediones (TZD), dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-IV) inhibitors, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors, or GLP-1 analogs.
• Clinical labs out of range/unacceptable:
  • creatinine ≥ 2 mg/dL, eGFR ≤ 60 mL/min/1.73 m2,
  • triglycerides> 500 mg/dl,
  • ALP > 4x the upper normal limit,
  • abnormal blood lipase levels,
  • other substantially abnormal clinical lab values as determined by the Study Practitioner
  • A1C 6.5% or higher
  • Glucose >126 mL fasting or >200mg/dL random
  • Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >3x upper normal limit

• Aged 18-65;
• report daily use of >2 cigarettes per day (CPD), as this is a sufficient threshold for detecting tobacco use disorder, per MPI Oliver's published work57;
• meet criteria for obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m2); and
• no immediate desire to quit tobacco use (using criteria form the clinical practice guidelines for treating tobacco dependence)