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Pharmacotherapy for Nicotine Dependence

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2005
Approximately 50% of long-term cigarette smokers die prematurely from the adverse effects of smoking, including on cancer, cardiovascular disease, lung disease, or other illness. This risk can be substantially reduced by smoking cessation, with greater benefits occurring the earlier in the smoking career that cessation occurs.
Jack E, Henningfield, Reginald V, Fant, August R, Buchhalter, Maxine L, Stitzer   +3 more
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Cocreation of a conversational agent to help patients adhere to their varenicline treatment: A study protocol

Digital Health, 2023
Objective Varenicline is the most efficacious approved smoking cessation medication, making it one of the most cost-effective clinical interventions for reducing tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. Adhering to varenicline is strongly associated with
Nadia Minian, Kamna Mehra, Jonathan Rose, Scott Veldhuizen, Laurie Zawertailo, Matt Ratto, Julia Lecce, Peter Selby   +7 more
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The effect of a clinical decision support system on prompting an intervention for risky alcohol use in a primary care smoking cessation program: a cluster randomized trial

Implementation Science, 2019
Background Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) may promote practitioner adherence to evidence-based guidelines. This study examined if the addition of a CDSS influenced practitioner delivery of a brief intervention with treatment-seeking smokers ...
Nadia Minian, Dolly Baliunas, Aliya Noormohamed, Laurie Zawertailo, Norman Giesbrecht, Christian S. Hendershot, Bernard Le Foll, Jürgen Rehm, Andriy V. Samokhvalov, Peter L. Selby   +9 more
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Personalized dosing of nicotine replacement therapy versus standard dosing for the treatment of individuals with tobacco dependence: study protocol for a randomized placebo-controlled trial

Trials, 2020
Background Medications for smoking cessation are currently only effective in helping a minority of smokers quit. Drug development is slow and expensive; as such, there is much interest in optimizing the effectiveness of existing treatments and ...
Laurie Zawertailo, Christian S. Hendershot, Rachel F. Tyndale, Bernard Le Foll, Andriy V. Samokhvalov, Kevin E. Thorpe, Andrew Pipe, Robert D. Reid, Peter Selby   +8 more
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Predisposing and protective factors influencing suicide ideation, attempt, and death in patients accessing substance use treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Systematic Reviews, 2019
Background The lifetime risk of suicide in patients with substance use disorder is five to ten times the risk in the general population. Critically, up to 19% of patients continue to think about and attempt suicide even after accessing treatment ...
S. Espinet, T. Corrin, D. Baliunas, L. Quilty, L. Zawertailo, S. J. Rizvi, W. deRuiter, S. Bonato, V. De Luca, S. Kennedy, P. Selby   +10 more
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Levels of nicotine dependency and its association with challenges to quit smoking among adult smokers in Malaysia 2021

Annals of Indian Psychiatry, 2022
Background: The nicotine dependency is related to many factors in terms of sociodemographic and smoking practices. Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the levels of nicotine dependency among adult smokers in Malaysia and to identify the ...
Thin Mon Kyaw, Zaliha Ismail, Mohamad Ikhsan Selamat, Prem Kumar A/L Arivanandan, Ye Wint Kyaw, Logithasan Murale Morgan, Keiswini Latchumana, Kirtanashree Arasu   +7 more
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Biochemical and genetic biomarkers associated with nicotine dependence in Mexican smokers

Pharmacology Research & Perspectives, 2023
Cigarette smoking remains an important health concern and is still a leading cause of preventable mortality. Nicotine is the substance responsible for sustained tobacco use and dependence.
Gissela Borrego‐Soto, Yadira Xitlalli Perez‐Paramo, Francisco Hernández‐Cabrera, Fatima Miroslaba Alvarado‐Monroy, Gilberto Borrego, Alejandro Robles‐Zamora, Philip Lazarus, Augusto Rojas‐Martinez   +7 more
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Nicotine dependence, perceived stress, and self-efficacy among primary health care professionals during the times of Covid-19 pandemic – A cross-sectional descriptive study

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021
Background: Nicotine dependency would have increased during the times of COVID-19 among the primary health professionals, which would can be attributed to perceived stress and can also be influenced by self-efficacy; hence, the aim of the present study ...
Tarun Gaur, Dhanesh Singh Rao, Atul Ashok Jadhav, Lokendra Singh Dagur, Harinarayan Dhaka, Prakhar Pathak, Kumar Gaurav Chhabra   +6 more
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An integrated digital/clinical approach to smoking cessation in lung cancer screening: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2017
Background Delivering effective tobacco dependence treatment that is feasible within lung cancer screening (LCS) programs is crucial for realizing the health benefits and cost savings of screening.
Amanda L. Graham, Michael V. Burke, Megan A. Jacobs, Sarah Cha, Ivana T. Croghan, Darrell R. Schroeder, James P. Moriarty, Bijan J. Borah, Donna F. Rasmussen, M. Jody Brookover, Dale B. Suesse, David E. Midthun, J. Taylor Hays   +12 more
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A Three-Year Autoregressive Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis on Nicotine Dependence and Average Smoking [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2012
ObjectivesPrevious studies have been limited to the use of cross sectional data to identify the relationships between nicotine dependence and smoking. Therefore, it is difficult to determine a causal direction between the two variables.
Tae Min Song, Ji-Young An, Laura L. Hayman, Gye Soo Kim, Ju Yul Lee, Hae Lan Jang   +5 more
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