Smoking - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Association of pre-onset cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use with age at onset of prodrome and age at onset of psychosis in first-episode patients.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Several reports suggest that cannabis use is associated with an earlier age at onset of psychosis, although not all studies have operationalized cannabis use as occurring prior to onset of symptoms. This study addressed whether pre-onset ... Read more...

Survey of descriptors on cigarette packs: still misleading consumers?

23 Sep 2009 AIM: In September 2008, the New Zealand (NZ) Commerce Commission issued a warning to the major tobacco companies to remove "light" and "mild" descriptors from cigarette packaging. Despite published evidence that suggested tobacco companies had ... Read more...

A developmental twin study of church attendance and alcohol and nicotine consumption: a model for analyzing the changing impact of genes and environment.

13 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Church attendance is one of the most consistent predictors of alcohol and nicotine consumption. The authors sought to clarify changes in the role of genetic and environmental factors in influencing church attendance and the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Smoking - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Association of pre-onset cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use with age at onset of prodrome and age at onset of psychosis in first-episode patients. 29 Sep 2009
• Survey of descriptors on cigarette packs: still misleading consumers? 23 Sep 2009
• A developmental twin study of church attendance and alcohol and nicotine consumption: a model for analyzing the changing impact of genes and environment. 13 Sep 2009
• A characterisation of smokers and factors influencing motivation to stop smoking. 30 Aug 2009
• Depression moderates smoking behavior in response to a sad mood induction. 30 Aug 2009
• Selection and socialization of risky drinking during the college transition: The importance of microenvironments associated with specific living units. 30 Aug 2009
• Maternal mental health and childhood asthma among Puerto Rican youth: the role of prenatal smoking. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of self-report on smoking among university students in Korea. 30 Aug 2009
• [Smoking and nicotine dependence] 25 Aug 2009
• Attitudes, norms and controls influencing lifestyle risk factor management in general practice. 24 Aug 2009
• A pythonesque situation. 19 Aug 2009
• [Living conditions for people with COPD] 11 Aug 2009
• Smoking and mental illness: results from population surveys in Australia and the United States. 5 Aug 2009
• [Cognitive modifications associated with tobacco smoking] 5 Aug 2009
• Butting out. 30 Jul 2009
• Using virtual reality to assess young adult smokers' attention to cues. 30 Jul 2009
• Psychosocial factors associated with weight control expectancies in treatment-seeking African American smokers. 30 Jul 2009
• Characteristics of psychopathy in adolescent nonsmokers and smokers: Relations to delay discounting and self reported impulsivity. 30 Jul 2009
• Attentional bias is associated with incentive-related physiological and subjective measures. 30 Jul 2009
• Social smoking implications for public health, clinical practice, and intervention research. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Smoking'

Definition: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco or something similar to tobacco.

Descriptor UI: D012907

Alternative terms: Smoking; Tobacco Smoking; Cigarette Smoking; Smoking, Cigarette; Smoking, Tobacco;

Related Mesh Headings: Tobacco Smoke Pollution; Tobacco Use Disorder;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; drug therapy; economics; epidemiology; ethnology; genetics; history; immunology; legislation & jurisprudence; metabolism; mortality; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; therapy; trends; urine;

Tree Number: F01.145.466.753;

Technical Notes: almost exclusively tobacco smoking: not for smoking marijuana ( = MARIJUANA SMOKING); smokers' patches, smokers' tongue = LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; cancer caused by smoking = organ/neopl term with /etiol (not /chem ind) + SMOKING /adv eff (not TOBACCO USE DISORDER); passive smoking = TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; SMOKING CESSATION is also available