...Sabrina Kastaun; Leonie S. Brose; Esther Scholz; Wolfgang Viechtbauer; Daniel Kotz Introduction: This study aimed to estimate prevalence rates of mental health symptoms (anxiety, depression, and overall psychological distress) by tobacco smoking status, and associations between such symptoms...

... in smokers in a controlled 1-year follow-up study. Materials and Methods: We recontacted the 345 participants who had taken part in an RCT on imaginal retraining for smokers 1 year later. The survey was carried out online and assessed craving for tobacco (primary outcome), smoking behaviour, well-being...

...Deepika Bagga; Cinzia Cecchetto; Christoph Stefan Aigner; Illya Tiraspolski; Karl Koschutnig; Florian P.S. Fischmeister; Veronika Schöpf Introduction: Cigarette smoking is known to modulate brain metabolism and brain function. How the dynamics of these metabolic alterations influence the active...

...Giulia Benvegnù; Francesco Tommasi; Stefano Ferraro; Elettra Libener; Marzia Di Chio; Sandra Bosi; Thomas Zandonai; Cristiano Chiamulera Introduction: Although the effects of proximal smoking cues have been widely studied in smokers, little is known on the features associated with background...

... sociodemographic determinants for other substance use. Similarly, smoking and alcohol consumption are important determinants for other substance use. The multinomial regression analysis results showed that compared with adults aged 39 years and older, early-emerging adults (aged 18–23 years), late-emerging adults...

...Steffen Moritz; Anja S. Göritz; Moana Kraj; Josefine Gehlenborg; Birgit Hottenrott; Peter Tonn; Leonie Ascone; Anya Pedersen; Simone Kühn Objectives: Smoking is a highly prevalent addictive behavior with severe and life-shortening health consequences. This is the first study to evaluate...

... subjects. In order to study cue-driven nicotine craving, robust and validated stimulus datasets are essential. Objectives: The aim of this study was to generate and validate a large set of individually rated smoking-related cues that allow for assessment of different stimulus intensities along...

...Tessa Scheffers-van Schayck; Marlous Tuithof; Roy Otten; Rutger Engels; Marloes Kleinjan Background: Smoking cessation during pregnancy and preventing relapse postpartum is a pivotal public health priority. Objectives: This study examined the risk and protective indicators of women who (a) smoke...

...Juçara X. Zaparoli; Eduardo K. Sugawara; Altay A.L. de Souza; Sérgio Tufik; José Carlos F. Galduróz Background: High oxidative stress, which is caused by smoking, can alter omega-3 fatty acid concentrations. Since omega-3 fatty acids play a role in dopaminergic neurotransmission related...

...Lucy Bowes; Aude Chollet; Eric Fombonne; Maria Melchior Background/Aims: The younger individuals quit smoking, the greater the health benefits. We studied the role of adolescent and concurrent psychological, social and familial factors in successful tobacco cessation in a general population sample...

... cannabis buds and oil rather than hashish or wax/butane honey oil. Dual users, who both smoked and vaped cannabis, currently smoked 5 joints/week compared to 14 joints/week before they started to vape cannabis (p = 0.004). Half the participants (45%) reported that vaping cannabis helped them stop or reduce...

... support for plain packaging were assessed using multivariate logistic regression. Results: Current smokers in countries where cigarette pictorial warnings were implemented had higher odds of reporting that health warning labels had any effect on their smoking behavior (making a quit attempt or reducing...

...Helenice R. Ferreira; Ecinele F. Rosa; José Leopoldo F. Antunes; Danilo A. Duarte; José Carlos P. Imparato; Claudio M. Pannuti; Fausto M. Mendes Aim: To investigate the association between prolonged pacifier use during childhood and smoking in adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: A historical...

... reports of smoking situations. Results: Compliance with the study protocols was low. In total, the participants completed 885 assessments during the 3 days of monitoring. Only 50.2% of random prompts were responded to, and 52.4% of those were completed within the first 10 min after issuing. Furthermore...

...Mariska Bot; Jacqueline Vink; Yuri Milaneschi; Johannes H. Smit; Cornelis Kluft; Jacoline Neuteboom; Brenda Penninx Background/Aims: We examined in cigarette smokers whether cotinine was associated with depressive and/or anxiety disorders. Methods: Data were derived from 1,026 smoking adults...

... than a comprehensive treatment program. The only significant predictor of this belief was a similar belief for stopping smoking. Conclusion: Our results indicate that a considerable proportion of German medical students overestimate the effectiveness of willpower to treat smoking and AUD. The addictive...

... to the Marlboro ad and liking it. This association remained significant (standardized β = 0.09; p < 0.001) even after statistical control for smoking status, smoking of friends and parents, attitudes towards smoking in general, cigarette advertising receptivity (having a favorite cigarette ad), exposure...

... was to test for association between a functional genetic variant in the NP-Y promoter gene (SNP rs16147) and tobacco smoking. Methods: In a population-based case-control multicenter study designed for tobacco addiction research, a total of 550 Caucasian current smokers, and 544 never-smokers were genotyped...

... collected as part of the fourth wave of data collection of the Smokefree Class Competition intervention in the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany. Students from the control arm of the Smokefree Class Competition study who indicated that they had ever smoked ‘at least a few puffs’ on a cigarette were classified...

...Maarten O. Kok; Trynke Hoekstra; Jos W.R. Twisk Aim: To assess longitudinally whether smoking tobacco is related to muscle strength in healthy adults and to assess the influence of lifestyle covariates on this relation. Methods: Data were obtained from the observational Amsterdam Growth and Health...