If you qualify, you will receive $470 for completion of the study
You may be eligible to participate if:
- Have smoked at least 8 cigarettes a day for at least 6 months. It’s ok if you also vape.
- Are not currently receiving smoking cessation treatment of any kind and are not planning to quit smoking in the next few months
- Have not had treatment with TMS before
- Have no history of epilepsy or seizure disorder
- Have no metal or medical implants in your body that cannot be removed (e.g. aneurysm clips, a cardiac pacemaker, defibrillator, etc.)
- Have no known neurological disorder (e.g. Parkinson’s) or history of a traumatic brain injury
What to expect:
- You will complete 3 testing sessions, about 1 week apart, each lasting about 3.5 hours.
- Before the sessions, you will meet with a researcher online or in person for ~30 minutes and do some training to get ready for the in-person sessions.
- For each in-person session, you will come to the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.
- In each session you will first provide a urine sample for a drug screen.
- You will then complete some questionnaires and receive ~17 minutes of rTMS. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a form of non-invasive brain stimulation that has recently been approved by the FDA as a treatment for smoking cessation.
- Complete a brain imaging session, during which you will perform some tasks and complete smoking craving ratings
- Be paid for your time and participation
If interested, please complete the Eligibility form
For more information, contact Anna Isbreg at aei00004@mix.wvu.edu or Mariya Cherkasova at mariya.cherkasova@mail.wvu.edu.
IRB approval is on file.