Matthew Carpenter

..g., oral nicotine spray, among others), which may ultimately offer greater efficacy than current formulations. In order to further lower the prevalence of smoking, novel strategies designed to optimize NRT efficacy are needed...

..Health care professionals, many of whom are viewed as trustworthy sources of health information, have a particularly important role to promote wider use of proven cessation strategies...

..Favorable views of cigarette use may be a potentiating factor that influences the progression of nicotine dependence among adolescents...

..Our findings highlight important methodological and theoretical considerations for cue reactivity research...

..Either outcome is of major public health significance...

..Many smokers remain unwilling or unable to make a quit attempt. For these smokers, novel strategies to induce quit attempts are necessary to achieve further reductions in smoking prevalence...

..We further examined the FTND by removing the one item on cigarettes smoked per day...

..To examine the (i) prevalence, (ii) predictors and (iii) cessation outcomes of smokers who engage in undisclosed quit attempts...

..Rates of smoking cessation have not changed in a decade, accentuating the need for novel approaches to prompt quit attempts...

..Our objectives were to preliminarily test the effect of timing of quit attempts for smoking cessation relative to menstrual cycle and to identify methodological procedures that could guide subsequent, larger clinical trials...

..Further research is necessary to replicate these findings, but they may suggest the need for focused cessation treatment during the luteal phase or quit attempts that are well timed relative to specific menstrual phases...

..As genetic testing for health risk becomes increasingly available, it becomes important to study the prospective impact of testing on modifiable health behavior...

..01). Results indicate smoking reduction using NRT does not undermine cessation but rather increases the likelihood of quitting to a degree similar to motivational advice...

..Results suggest that, under the described experimental parameters, craving can be reliably elicited over repeated cue reactivity sessions...

..e., not smoking since a quit date, with or without a grace period) or point prevalence (PP) abstinence rates (i.e., no smoking one or more days prior to the follow-up), but how these two relate is unclear...

..Higher than expected rates of attempted cessation and quitting in the usual-care group suggest that we recruited smokers whose motivation to quit was above average. Thus, a replication test in a less-motivated group of smokers is needed...

..Smoking research, particularly among adolescents in whom ADHD is so common, should carefully consider the complex issue of comorbid ADHD and nicotine dependence...

..The present work sought to explore reactivity to marijuana cues within this age group...

..These results suggest that atomoxetine may improve some ADHD symptoms but does not reduce marijuana use in this population. ..

..The present study sought to explore the influence of menstrual cycle phase on reactivity to smoking in vivo and stressful imagery cues in a sample of non-treatment-seeking women smokers...

..054). Further study with buspirone in this population may be warranted; however, strategies to enhance study retention and improve outcome measurement should be considered in future trials...

..The results suggest that the number of ADHD symptoms is proportionally associated with tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use...

..Our goal was to establish the psychometric properties of the dyadic efficacy instrument, including its associations with cessation outcomes...

..Combined bupropion SR and CM appears efficacious, at least in the short-term, for adolescent smoking cessation and may be superior to either intervention alone...

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..We conclude that (a) smoking reduction increases the probability of future cessation and (b) whether smoking reduction decreases the risks of smoking-related diseases has not been adequately tested...

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..The Alpha Coded Testing Study investigated the risks, benefits, and psychological impact of home genetic testing for alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency...

..The intervention consisted of 7 modules: posttraumatic stress/panic, depression, generalized anxiety, alcohol use, marijuana use, drug use, and cigarette use. Feasibility data were promising and suggest the need for further evaluation...

..It was hypothesized that Black and non-Hispanic White smokers would differ in their attitudes toward pharmacotherapy and that the association between attitudes toward and actual use of pharmacotherapy would differ by race...

..More broadly, the proposed research will add to our understanding of how conditioning contributes to the development of nicotine dependence in adolescents. ..

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