ALLMedicine™ Nicotine Addiction Center

Mar 18th, 2023 - A considerable number of people successfully give up tobacco smoking. In nicotine-dependent individuals, tobacco choice is determined by greater expected drug value; however, less is known about the underlying mechanisms through which people quit ...

Mar 13th, 2023 - Despite growing evidence that e-cigarettes are likely less harmful than cigarettes, perceptions of equal or more harm have increased worldwide. This study aimed to identify the most common reasons behind adults' perceptions of the (i) relative har...

Mar 12th, 2023 - Tobacco and nicotine derivatives uses are multiple in nature. These include conventional cigarettes (CCs), heated tobacco products (HTPs), and electronic cigarettes (ECs). This study aims to determine the practices, nicotine dependency profile, as...

Mar 12th, 2023 - Of interest to women's mental health, a wealth of studies suggests sex differences in nicotine addiction and treatment response, but their psychoneuroendocrine underpinnings remain largely unknown. A pathway involving sex steroids could indeed be ...

Mar 12th, 2023 - Electronic cigarette (ECIG) use has become a popular method for nicotine delivery. Combustible cigarette (CC) cessation or reduction are the primary reasons for ECIG uptake among adults. Yet, most CC smokers who initiate ECIG use do not fully tran...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - Objectives: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a chronic disease that has a tremendously negative impact on individuals and their families and a substantial burden on society. Research on quantitative endophenotypes such as alcohol response, and their ...

Feb 10th, 2023 - Objective: To develop a neuroimaging/genetic/epigenetic biomarker of nicotine dependence severity that may be useful in predicting success in smoking cessation and in development of new smoking cessation treatment targets. Further, by evaluating t...

Feb 10th, 2023 - The population of the research will be the pregnant women registered in the family health center in Sivas city center.The sample of the study will consist of pregnant women who smoke and agree to participate in the study.Power analysis was calcula...

Jan 20th, 2023 - Physically healthy adult smokers may be eligible for this study. Volunteers may participate in this study if they are 18 - 65 years old. Subjects will participate in two separate 7-hour PET/CT Scan Sessions (each with 2 hours of actual PET/CT scan...

Jan 18th, 2023 - Neuroimaging studies suggest that high rate of smoking in patients with schizophrenia may be due to an overlap of nicotine addiction related circuitries and schizophrenia related circuitries, such that schizophrenia impact some of the same circuit...

Nov 10th, 2022 - In this video, Chasity Shelton, PharmD, of the University of Tennessee (UT) Health Science Center in Memphis, discusses the various health risks associated with adolescent vaping, and offers healthcare providers advice on how to address these risk...

Apr 28th, 2022 - After more than a decade of discussing a ban on menthol in tobacco products, on Thursday the FDA finally proposed rules to eliminate menthol additives in cigarettes and all flavors other than tobacco in cigars. The rules would apply to heated toba...

Apr 28th, 2022 - The FDA on Thursday proposed a ban on making and selling menthol cigarettes in the United States, as well as most flavored cigars. Health care groups hailed the proposal as a critical step to keep cigarettes out of the mouths of children and Black...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Anthony J. Alberg Increasing the minimum age of legal access (MLA) to tobacco products will prevent or delay initiation of tobacco use by adolescents and young adults, particularly those ages 15 to 17, and improve the health of Americans acr...

Jul 26th, 2021 - Videos posted on TikTok depicting e-cigarettes mostly make vaping look cool and fun, researchers found. An analysis of 808 videos, selected using hashtags on vaping, indicated that 63% portrayed e-cigarettes in a positive light, whereas only 13% w...