Science news articles about 'tobacco dependence'

... group. Participants completed a standardized questionnaire evaluating smoking history and levels of tobacco dependence in current smokers. Responses from 80 participants with ADHD and 86 controls, ...

... dependence published online today (Friday 17 October 2008) in the November issue of Addiction, ... Hayden McRobbie and Professor Peter Hajek of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Barts and The London ...

... likely highly nicotine dependent." The results of the study suggest that more individualized tobacco-dependent treatments are needed to address the increase in addiction severity. "The more severely ...

... rates among smokers. "If health-care providers are unaware of the AHRQ guidelines for tobacco dependence, and consequently unsure of how to treat their patients who are tobacco-dependent, they are ...

... be a more active intervention to help those people who present depressive symptoms or a high tobacco dependence. However, other variables which could seem less relevant a priori, such as having a ...

... receptors in the brain that mediate the actions of the neurotransmitter dopamine, is associated with tobacco dependence, and that two alleles of a variant within this gene are differentially expressed ...

... the evidence to date suggests that Web- and computer-based programs have a legitimate place in tobacco dependence treatment options." Myung, who conducted the research while he was a visiting scholar ...

... a problem-solving mode, at the basis of which is a solid relationship with the counselor," Hitsman said. Tobacco dependence also needs to be treated as a chronic disease, Hitsman believes. "We know ...

... that are most important in reducing cancer risk in the general population – preventing and treating tobacco dependence, increasing access to immunization programs, high quality cancer screening and ...