ALLMedicine™ Nicotine Addiction Center

Jun 16th, 2022 - 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...

Jun 16th, 2022 - 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 ...

May 26th, 2022 - Tobacco use in humans is a long-standing public health concern. Flavors are common additives in tobacco and alternative tobacco products, added to mask nicotine's harsh orosensory effects and increase the appeal of these products. Animal models ar...

May 17th, 2022 - Adolescent e-cigarette use constitutes a major public health challenge that has reversed the steady progress made in the past three decades to reduce youth tobacco use in the United States (U.S.). Although the prevalence of e-cigarette use has dec...

May 15th, 2022 - An increasing number of tobacco products are entering the market, offering a variety of options to attain desired nicotine intake. However, little is known about the effect of this diverse marketplace on the experiences and nicotine exposure among...

Jun 16th, 2022 - 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...

Jun 16th, 2022 - 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 ...

May 9th, 2022 - Background Use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) has increased substantially in the past decade, and nearly 70% of ENDS users also smoke cigarettes (i.e., dual users). There is evidence that ENDS can be used as an effective smoking ce...

May 2nd, 2022 - Cigarette smoking is a causative factor in the development of coronary heart disease (CHD), and is the most dangerous form of tobacco use. Effective treatments for smoking cessation exist but relapse to cigarette smoking is common, principally due...

Mar 21st, 2022 - This project will utilize a randomized, parallel-design trial to examine the effects of low nicotine content (LNC) cigarette packaging on smoking behaviors, harm exposure, risk perceptions, and subjective ratings of cigarettes. The investigators w...

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...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - The same molecular platform that led to effective vaccines against the novel coronavirus -- messenger RNA -- has begun expanding into other therapeutic areas, including cancer. (CNN) Men with a family history of prostate cancer should begin screen...

Feb 21st, 2020 - Patients with schizophrenia have decreased chronnectomic density in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, compared with healthy controls, and cigarette smoking in patients with schizophrenia may be associated with a degree of preserved function in t.

Jan 2nd, 2020 - The Food and Drug Administration has taken steps to target the use of flavors in cartridge-based e-cigarette products among minors, but states it is not a “ban. ” librakv/Thinkstock On Jan.