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Biochemical Verification of Tobacco Use and Abstinence: 2019 Update
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BACKGROUND: The changing prevalence and patterns of tobacco use, the advent of novel nicotine delivery devices, and the development of new biomarkers prompted an update of the 2002 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) report on whether and how to apply biomarker verification for tobacco use and abstinence. METHODS: The SRNT Treatment Research Network convened a group of investigators with expertise in tobacco biomarkers to update the recommendations of the 2002 SNRT Biochemical Verification Report. RESULTS: Biochemical verification of tobacco use and abstinence increases scientific rigor and is recommended in clinical trials of smoking cessation, when feasible. Sources, appropriate biospecimens, cutpoints, time of detection windows and analytic methods for carbon monoxide, cotinine (including over the counter tests), total nicotine equivalents, minor tobacco alkaloids, and 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol are reviewed, as well as biochemical approaches to distinguishing cigarette smoking from use of electronic nicotine delivery devices (ENDS). CONCLUSIONS: Recommendations are provided for whether and how to use biochemical verification of tobacco use and abstinence. Guidelines are provided on which biomarkers to use, which biospecimens to use, optimal cutpoints, time windows to detection, and methodology for biochemical verifications. Use of combinations of biomarkers is recommended for assessment of ENDS use. IMPLICATIONS: Biochemical verification increases scientific rigor, but there are drawbacks that need to be assessed to determine whether the benefits of biochemical verification outweigh the costs, including the cost of the assays, the feasibility of sample collection, the ability to draw clear conclusions based on the duration of abstinence, and the variability of the assay within the study population. This paper provides updated recommendations from the 2002 SRNT report on whether and how to use biochemical markers in determining tobacco use and abstinence.
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“authors like Benowitz et al. (2020) and West et al. (2005) suggest that abstinence outcomes are also reliable in those studies in which biochemical verification is not feasible, such as those in which the data are collected by phone or through the internet or when personal contact is limited.”
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“As a secondary outcome analysis, we examined repeated measures of the CO-verified and self-reported point-prevalence smoking abstinence outcomes at weeks 5, 12, and 26, using a generalized linear mixed model with covariates of treatment arm, discrete time, and their interaction.”
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Varenicline Treatment for Waterpipe Smoking Cessation
Chami, H. A., Zaouk, N., Makki, M. H., Tamim, H., Shaya, M., & Talih, F. R. (2022) · Nicotine & Tobacco Research · doi:10.1093/ntr/ntac162 · Cited by 1
Salivary cotinine level and treatment response in muscle invasive bladder cancer: A pilot study
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“The primary exposure was active smoking or no active smoking, defined using salivary cotinine concentration level (<10 and >10 ng/ml, respectively).(5) The association”
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The risk of colorectal neoplasm in ex- and never-smokers according to urinary cotinine level
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“Plasma thiocyanate has the disadvantage of poor specificity for detecting light smoking,([6]) and exhaled CO is not measured in smokeless tobacco or electronic cigarette exhalent.([7]) Therefore, urinary cotinine level is known as an objective and quantitative indicator related to smoking.”
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Reaching Intermittent Tobacco Users With Technology: New Evidence
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EVALUATION OF SALIVARY COTININE LEVEL IN SECOND-HAND SMOKERS - A CASE CONTROL STUDY
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An Open-label Pilot Study of NicoBloc as a Novel Smoking Cessation Intervention
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“Of note, an update was published in late 2020 suggesting that an appropriate cutpoint may be 4 to 10 ppm for research and clinical purposes depending on local smoke-free legislation, smoking prevalence, and air pollution levels [25].”
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“As recommended by Benowitz et al.30, biochemical verification of tobacco abstinence was carried out by using a carbon monoxide (CO) monitor (cut-off 6 ppm) and by testing saliva for cotinine exposure using a multilevel lateral flow 6Tob.”
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“The target behavior (mainly abstinence) has to be assessed objectively and, more specifically in the case of smoking, by analyzing urinary cotinine or carbon monoxide (CO) levels through exhaled air (Benowitz et al., 2020; Perkins et al., 2013; Sigmon and Patrick, 2012).”
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“Objective biological verification methods provide an unbiased way to measure smoking and typically include measuring exhaled breath carbon monoxide levels or blood, saliva, or urine-based nicotine metabolites such as cotinine or tobacco alkaloids (Benowitz et al., 2020; Thrul et al., 2023).”
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“…active versus passive cigarette smoke exposure (Mourino et al. 2021) and compliance with cigarette smoking abstinence in various research settings (Benowitz et al. 2020), there are limitations to the use of cotinine as a biomarker. since cotinine is a metabolite of nicotine and that nicotine is…”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Benowitz, N. L., Bernert, J. T., Foulds, J., Hecht, S. S., Jacob, P., Jarvis, M. J., Joseph, A., Oncken, C., & Piper, M. E.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University College London (GB)
- University of Connecticut (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Corresponding author
- Benowitz, Neal L
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nicotine & Tobacco Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2019-10-01
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1086-1097
- ISSN
- 1462-2203 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-994X
- PMC
- PMC7882145
- OpenAlex
- W2978389675
- Cited by
- 619
- References
- 121
- Citations by year
- 2026: 99 · 2025: 84 · 2024: 107 · 2023: 103 · 2022: 87 · 2021: 79 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 6.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
- Locations
- Nicotine & Tobacco Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (CC999999)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Keywords
- tobacco use, smoking abstinence, biomarkers, cotinine, carbon monoxide, electronic cigarettes, NNAL, biological specimen, detection window
- MeSH terms
- Cigarette Smoking, Carbon Monoxide, Cotinine, Humans, Nicotine, United States, Biomarkers, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Products
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