Tobacco Use Disorder - Rehabilitation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Test-retest reliability of web-based retrospective self-report of tobacco exposure and risk.

9 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Retrospectively collected data about the development and maintenance of behaviors that impact health are a valuable source of information. Establishing the reliability of retrospective measures is a necessary step in determining the ... Read more...

Longitudinal analysis of abstinence-specific social support and smoking cessation.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVES: (1) To replicate previous research finding that abstinence-specific social support during the active phase of quitting predicts short- and long-term smoking cessation treatment outcome. (2) To describe time-related changes in ... Read more...

[Current and future medical drugs for smoking cessation]

3 Jun 2009 Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in the world. There are nearly 1, 3 billion users of nicotine and tobacco products worldwide while approximately 4, 9 millions of them die from smoking-related disease every ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Tobacco Use Disorder - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Test-retest reliability of web-based retrospective self-report of tobacco exposure and risk. 9 Aug 2009
• Longitudinal analysis of abstinence-specific social support and smoking cessation. 29 Jun 2009
• [Current and future medical drugs for smoking cessation] 3 Jun 2009
• Tobacco use among individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities: a brief review. 30 May 2009
• Treatment of tobacco dependence in mental health and addictive disorders. 30 May 2009
• Methadone-nicotine interactions in methadone maintenance treatment patients. 30 May 2009
• Mysterious alpha6-containing nAChRs: function, pharmacology, and pathophysiology. 30 May 2009
• Comparing smoking treatment programs for lighter smokers with and without a history of heavier smoking. 29 Mar 2009
• The efficacy of a smoking cessation programme in patients undergoing elective surgery: a randomised clinical trial. 27 Feb 2009
• Treatment seeking for smoking cessation among young adults. 2 Feb 2009
• Performance monitoring of substance use disorder interventions in the Veterans Health Administration. 30 Dec 2008
• Usage of an Internet smoking cessation resource: the Australian QuitCoach. 30 Dec 2008
• Smoking Coca Paste and crack-tobacco must be treated as double addiction. 30 Dec 2008
• Nicotine chemistry, metabolism, kinetics and biomarkers. 30 Dec 2008
• Therapy for specific problems: youth tobacco cessation. 30 Dec 2008
• New findings on nicotine addiction and treatment. 30 Dec 2008
• Targeting reward-relevant nicotinic receptors in the discovery of novel pharmacotherapeutic agents to treat tobacco dependence. 30 Dec 2008
• Simultaneous cannabis and tobacco use and cannabis-related outcomes in young women. 7 Dec 2008
• Facial reactions to smoking cues relate to ambivalence about smoking. 29 Nov 2008
• Over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy: can its impact on smoking cessation be enhanced? 29 Nov 2008

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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