Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health

A Biobehavioral Approach

Lynn T. Kozlowski, Jack E. Henningfield, Janet Brigham

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9780803959477
• eBook ISBN: 9781452264325
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

When smokers inhale smoke into their lungs, they take the drug nicotine into their bodies and brains, where it affects how the smokers feel and act. When smokers display their cigarettes, they are saying something symbolic and personal about themselves. And when smokers smoke, they put themselves at risk, often knowingly, of early disability or death.

Smoking is one of the world?s most pressing public health problems. Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health reviews the severe problems caused by smoking and examines individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Cigarettes are the most popular, most addictive, and most deadly form of tobacco use, with cigarette design contributing directly to the dangers of smoking; most of the book focuses on this predominant form of nicotine use.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Why Biobehavioral? Why Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health?
• Chapter 2: The History of the Use of Nicotine: A Tasty Wonder Drug for Many, if Not All, Occasions
• Chapter 3: Who Smokes and What Kills Them
• Chapter 4: What Nicotine Does to the Body
• Chapter 5: The Natural History of a Dependence Disorder
• Chapter 6: Tobacco Use as Nicotine Addiction
• Chapter 7: Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Taking: A Biobehavioral Syndrome
• Chapter 8: "Low-Tar," "Light" Cigarettes: Lessons from a Dangerous Boondoggle
• Chapter 9: Helping Smokers Quit
• Chapter 10: Tobacco, Public Health, and Policy
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Authors