Tobacco use is associated with 5 million deaths per year worldwide and is regarded as one
of the leading causes of premature death. Comprehensive programmes for tobacco control …

Background Monitoring the use of psychoactive substances and substance-related
problems in the population allows for the assessment of prevalence and associated health …

Abstract The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) convened a meeting in September
2005 to review tobacco use and dependence and smoking cessation among those with …

An inability to maintain abstinence is a key indicator of tobacco dependence. Unfortunately,
little evidence exists regarding the ability of the major tobacco dependence measures to …

We report the development of a new multidimensional questionnaire to measure nicotine
dependence, based on Edwards's syndromal conceptualization of dependence. We present …

The dependence construct fills an important explanatory role in motivational accounts of
smoking and relapse. Frequently used measures of dependence are either atheoretical or …

Tobacco use is a leading contributor to disability and death worldwide, and genetic factors
contribute in part to the development of nicotine dependence. To identify novel genes for …

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality. Genetic
variation contributes to initiation, regular smoking, nicotine dependence, and cessation. We …

Objectives. We describe the epidemiology of smoking behaviors in a national young adult
sample and identify common and unique demographic, social, and psychological correlates …

Background The prevalence of smoking in the United States has been closely monitored.
However, little is known about the epidemiology of nicotine dependence. We studiedDSM-III …