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Nicotine Dependence and Schizophrenia
Psychiatric Services, 1994The following recommendations are offered for evaluating and treating nicotine dependence among patients with schizophrenia. Assessment of patients's nicotine usage should be a routine part of psychiatric evaluation and treatment planning. Heavy smokers should be closely evaluated for other substance abuse.
Ziedonis, Douglas M. +3 more
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Life Sciences, 1989
Health hazards associated with nicotine and tobacco use are well known. A contributing factor, the dependence producing potential of this drug, has become widely accepted. However, there are only a few human and animal studies that provide objective measures of the behavioral consequences of nicotine abstinence.
M E, Carroll +3 more
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Health hazards associated with nicotine and tobacco use are well known. A contributing factor, the dependence producing potential of this drug, has become widely accepted. However, there are only a few human and animal studies that provide objective measures of the behavioral consequences of nicotine abstinence.
M E, Carroll +3 more
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The Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale: A multidimensional measure of nicotine dependence
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2004We report the development of a new multidimensional questionnaire to measure nicotine dependence, based on Edwards's syndromal conceptualization of dependence. We present three studies. In study 1, we administered the Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale (NDSS) to 317 smokers in a smoking cessation study. Factor analysis of the NDSS revealed five factors:
Saul, Shiffman +2 more
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Revue de pneumologie clinique, 2000
Nicotine is the principle alkaloid in tobacco and is considered to be responsible for tobacco dependence due to its psychoactive properties and its capacity to induce self-administration behavior in animals. Its action affects the brain where it binds to specific nicotinic receptors distributed on the mesolimbic and mesocortial dopaminergic pathways ...
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Nicotine is the principle alkaloid in tobacco and is considered to be responsible for tobacco dependence due to its psychoactive properties and its capacity to induce self-administration behavior in animals. Its action affects the brain where it binds to specific nicotinic receptors distributed on the mesolimbic and mesocortial dopaminergic pathways ...
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Treatment of nicotine dependence
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1995Drug and nondrug interventions used in treating nicotine dependence are reviewed. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Risks of smoking-related disease and death decline sharply when smokers quit, but 26% of Americans continue to smoke.
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Cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence
Medical Clinics of North America, 2004Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death, disability, and disease in the United States and is projected to be the leading cause of death and disability across all developed countries by the year 2020. Understanding nicotine dependence, its causes, consequences, and effective treatments is critical to the nation's public health agenda ...
Susan M, Zbikowski +2 more
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Non-nicotine pharmacotherapies for nicotine dependence.
Essential psychopharmacology, 2005The smoking rate for patients with schizophrenia reaches as high as 90% in clinical samples, 70% for patients with bipolar disorder, and 40% to 50% for patients with major depression and anxiety disorders. Because it is a significant health hazard, smoking should be aggressively discouraged, and, in this group of patients, a combination of behavioral ...
Melissa M, Dudas, Tony P, George
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The West Virginia medical journal, 2001
To explore the biology of nicotine addiction and to discuss the latest effective treatments for nicotine dependence. Research indicates that the most effective methods for treating nicotine dependence are nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and bupropion SR (BUP).
E D, Glover, P N, Glover
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To explore the biology of nicotine addiction and to discuss the latest effective treatments for nicotine dependence. Research indicates that the most effective methods for treating nicotine dependence are nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and bupropion SR (BUP).
E D, Glover, P N, Glover
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