Seeing Through the Blind: Belief about Treatment Randomization and Smoking Cessation Outcome among People with Current or Past Major Depressive Disorder who Smoke in a Placebo-Controlled Trial of Varenicline.
Robert A SchnollE Paul WileytoAnna-Marika BauerErica N FoxDaniel BlumenthalMackenzie Hosie QuinnFrank LeoneMark D HuffmanSadiya S KhanJacqueline K GollanGeorge D PapandonatosBrian HitsmanPublished in: Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2023)
Participants receiving varenicline can discern that they received varenicline and this belief is associated with higher cessation rates. Research is needed to continue to examine how participants correctly identify their allocation to varenicline.