Nicotine Addiction Principles and Management

by Orleans, C. Tracy; Slade, John

• ISBN13: 9780195064414
• ISBN10: 0195064410
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-11-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 on worksite and community intervention programs and summarizes the research on smoking patterns and history in women, Blacks, Hispanics, youth, and older adults, and shows 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.

Author Biography

Carole Tracy Orleans, Ph.D., is Director of Tobacco Control Research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. A clinical psychologist specializing in behavioral medicine, she is widely recognized for her expertise in the development ad evaluation of model nicotine addiction treatments for special populations and settings.
John Slade, M.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. An internist specializing in the clinical and public health aspects of addicition medicine, Dr. Slade is widely recognized for his work to improve the clnical management of nicotine dependence and for his advocacy of aggressive public health measures to control this disease.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Disease of Nicotine Addiction

Etiology

Nicotine Delivery Systems

Psychopharmacology of Nicotine

Economics

Pathogenesis and Epidemiology

Multiple Determinants of Tobacco Use and Cessation

Natural History and Epidemiology

Complications

Medical and Public Health Implications of Tobacco Addiction

Tobacco Smoke Pollution

Management

Treating Nicotine Dependence in Medical Settings: A Stepped-Care Model

Creating and Maintaining an Optimal Medical Practice Environment for the Treatment of Nicotine Addiction

Minimal-Contact Quit Smoking Strategies for Medical Settings

Formal Quit Smoking Treatments

Pharmacological Adjuncts for the Treatment of Tobacco Dependence

Smokeless Tobacco Risks: Risks, Epidemiology, and Cessation

High-Risk Groups and Patients with Medical Co-Morbidity

Treating Nicotine Dependence in Patients with Other Addictive Disorders

Patients with Psychiatric Co-Morbidity

Public Health and Prevention

Women Who Smoke

Nicotine Dependence Among Blacks and Hispanics

Youth Tobacco Use: Risks, Patterns and Control

Older Smokers

Worksite and Community Intervention for Tobacco Control

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