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Nicotine Addiction: Principles and Management (Hardcover, New)
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Nicotine Addiction: Principles and Management (Hardcover, New)
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Despite persistent warnings from the medical profession about the
health risks involved in cigarette smoking, millions of people
continue to smoke cigarettes. With contributions from renowned
experts, this ground-breaking work defines and explains nicotine
addiction as a primary problem or disease, instead of as a habit or
risk factor for other diseases. A comprehensive, clinical text on
tobacco dependence, this book provides clinicians with essential
information on how to diagnose and treat nicotine addicted
patients. It also offers the medical, epidemiological and
behavioral science backgrounds necessary for understanding the
process and dynamics of tobacco dependence. Following the
traditional format of medical texts, the book first covers
etiology, pathogenesis and complications, then diagnosis and
treatment, and finally public health and prevention. Part One
presents an overview of the biological, psychological and social
factors that contribute to nicotine dependence, including such
topics as a description of nicotine delivery systems,
psychopharmacology, economics, natural history and epidemiology,
mortality, morbidity, and environmental tobacco smoke exposure. The
second part offers practical guidelines and tools for treating
nicotine dependence and describes a stepped-care treatment model
with brief interventions that can be easily integrated into routine
medical practice. This section also covers the role of
psychopharmacologic and formal treatment programs, the treatment of
smokeless tobacco addiction, and treating nicotine dependence in
pregnant women and in people with medical illnesses, other chemical
dependencies, or psychiatric disorders. The last section focuses
onworksite and community intervention programs and summarizes the
research on smoking patterns and history in women, Blacks,
Hispanics, youth, and older adults, discussing how intervention and
prevention programs could be made more effective in these groups.
Written by the nation's leading tobacco control researchers and
clinicians, this important work contains new and critical
information not previously available.
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