Tobacco Use Disorder
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007.

4 Nov 2009 The prevalence of tobacco use among adults in the United States has been reduced by half since the 1960s. Despite this progress, low-income populations, such as Medicaid enrollees, continue to smoke at substantially higher rates than the general ... Read more...

Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: We assessed the prevalence of substance use among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and valve surgery in northwest Iran. We evaluated the postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality of patients with substance ... Read more...

[Water-pipe smoking--a survey of a Cochrane review]

12 Sep 2009 More than half the younger population in Denmark have tried water-pipe smoking, but very few smoke daily or weekly. Water-pipe smoke contains approximately the same harmful substances as cigarette smoke. Accordingly, it is expected that water-pipe ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Tobacco Use Disorder'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments - United States, 2007. 4 Nov 2009
• Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome. 30 Oct 2009
• Nondaily and social smoking: an increasingly prevalent pattern. 24 Oct 2009
• WHO's Western Pacific region agrees tobacco-control plan. 8 Oct 2009
• [Water-pipe smoking--a survey of a Cochrane review] 12 Sep 2009
• Role of genetic variants in the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 cluster in nicotine dependence risk: importance of gene-environment interplay. 30 Aug 2009
• What's new in Nicotine & Tobacco Research? 30 Aug 2009
• "Providers practice prevention": promoting dental hygienists' use of evidence-based treatment of tobacco use and dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Behavioral interventions in tobacco dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Perioperative peripheral nerve injuries: a retrospective study of 380,680 cases during a 10-year period at a single institution. 30 Aug 2009
• [Smoking and nicotine dependence] 25 Aug 2009
• The CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 nicotinic receptor subunit gene cluster affects risk for nicotine dependence in African-Americans and in European-Americans. 23 Aug 2009
• Treating tobacco dependence in a medical setting. 23 Aug 2009
• Safety of smoking cessation drugs. 22 Aug 2009
• Less-toxic cigarette use may backfire. 19 Aug 2009
• Test-retest reliability of web-based retrospective self-report of tobacco exposure and risk. 9 Aug 2009
• A smoking ban in public places increases the efficacy of bupropion and counseling on cessation outcomes at 1 year. 2 Aug 2009
• Tobacco dependence in light smokers. 2 Aug 2009
• Health practices of Canadian physicians. 30 Jul 2009
• Quitting smoking is easy...Mark Twain said so. 30 Jul 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