Tobacco Use Disorder - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Behavioral interventions in tobacco dependence.

30 Aug 2009 Patients who smoke represent a frustrating social paradox. The harmful effects of tobacco use have been well publicized in the past 50 years, yet more than one in five adults in the United States continue to smoke. A better understanding of the ... Read more...

[Smoking and nicotine dependence]

25 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: The prevalence of smoking is decreasing. At the same time, studies suggest that the relative proportion of nicotine dependent smokers is increasing. This may leave us with a smaller, but more problematic group of smokers. Few studies ... Read more...

An acute psychosocial stress enhances the neural response to smoking cues.

22 Jul 2009 Stress plays an important role in drug addiction. It can trigger relapse in abstinent addicts, and both in the everyday world and in the laboratory, a stressor can induce drug craving. Drug cues, such as the sight of drug, can also trigger ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Tobacco Use Disorder - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Behavioral interventions in tobacco dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• [Smoking and nicotine dependence] 25 Aug 2009
• Less-toxic cigarette use may backfire. 19 Aug 2009
• Quitting smoking is easy...Mark Twain said so. 30 Jul 2009
• An acute psychosocial stress enhances the neural response to smoking cues. 22 Jul 2009
• Nicotine dependence and psychiatric disorders among young males in Singapore. 22 Jul 2009
• Substance use, trait measures, and subjective response to nicotine in never-smokers stratified on parental smoking history and sex. 22 Jul 2009
• Stress and addiction: a dynamic interplay of genes, environment, and drug intake. 13 Jul 2009
• D-Cycloserine attenuates reactivity to smoking cues in nicotine dependent smokers: a pilot investigation. 7 Jul 2009
• Enhanced nicotine reward in adulthood after exposure to nicotine during early adolescence in mice. 30 Jun 2009
• [Information group--a solution to increase the efficacy of specialized intervention for smoking cessation] 29 Jun 2009
• Longitudinal analysis of abstinence-specific social support and smoking cessation. 29 Jun 2009
• Measurement of affective state during chronic nicotine treatment and withdrawal by affective taste reactivity in mice: the role of endocannabinoids. 19 Jun 2009
• Clinical and laboratory assessment of the subjective experience of drug craving. 9 Jun 2009
• Association of major depression with subtypes of nicotine dependence found among adult daily smokers: a latent class analysis. 5 Jun 2009
• Preclinical pharmacology of the alpha4beta2 nAChR partial agonist varenicline related to effects on reward, mood and cognition. 4 Jun 2009
• Dopamine genes and nicotine dependence in treatment-seeking and community smokers. Jun 2009
• Association of tobacco dependence and quit attempt duration with Rasch-modeled withdrawal sensitivity using retrospective measures. 30 May 2009
• Beliefs and attitudes about bupropion: implications for medication adherence and smoking cessation treatment. 30 May 2009
• Changes in tobacco use among adolescent smokers in substance abuse treatment. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Tobacco Use Disorder'

Definition: Tobacco used to the detriment of a person's health or social functioning. Tobacco dependence is included.

Descriptor UI: D014029

Alternative terms: Tobacco Use Disorder; Disorder, Tobacco Use; Tobacco Use Disorders; Tobacco-Use Disorder; Disorder, Tobacco-Use; Nicotine Use Disorder; Disorder, Nicotine Use; Nicotine Use Disorders; Use Disorder, Nicotine; Tobacco Dependence; Dependence, Tobacco; Tobacco Dependences; Nicotine Dependence; Dependence, Nicotine;

Related Mesh Headings: Smoking Cessation;

Allowable Qualifiers: nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality;

Tree Number: C21.739.912; F03.900.912;

History Note: 81

Technical Notes: includes cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco & snuff; a psychiatric diag: do not confuse with SMOKING /adv eff; note X ref NICOTINE DEPENDENCE: do not coord with NICOTINE unless nicotine is substantially discussed as a chemical