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Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents
About this book
Catch up with current theories on a major public health menace! Adolescent smoking has increasingly become a concern as a public health issue, yet the theoretical and empirical literature in the area remains skimpy. Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents furnishes researchers and medical professionals with a comprehensive overview of current theories and statistics. Moreover, it offers fresh empirical research as well as suggestions for promising avenues of investigation.The first half of Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents provides a solid conceptual and practical context for studying adolescent nicotine addiction, drawing on the most advanced scholarly studies of why teenagers start smoking and the process of addiction. The second half evaluates nicotine replacement therapy, smoking interventions among substance-abusing adolescents, and smoking among teenage girls. Nicotine Addiction Among Adolescents addresses all phases of adolescent tobacco use. This valuable guide details:
- the pharmacological, psychological, and developmental factors that influence teen smoking behavior
- the hidden connection between depression, gender, and cigarettes
- the grounds for the debate over whether most teens become addicted to nicotine
- emerging practices and methods to help adolescents stop smoking
- links between smoking and other kinds of substance abuse
- ways to improve prevention and intervention programs
- unanswered questions about teenage smoking that demand further researchNicotine Addiction Among Adolescents recognizes the need for developmentally sensitive approaches for conceptualizing and treating nicotine addiction and offers you thought-provoking strategies and models that will spark future research.
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Index
Adolescent females, smoking by, 93-100
cotinine levels in, 36-37
factors influencing
depression, 56,101-102
image, 102-103,106
management of negative mood, 100-102
social influences, 97-100
weight control, 95-97,106
prevalence, 93-94
smoking prevention and treatment for, 39,94,103-106
subjective effects experienced by, 35
withdrawal symptoms in, 34
Adult smokers
nicotine-dependent, 37
smoking cessation strategies of, 15, 16
Advertising
of cigarettes, targeted for females, 102
of nicotine replacement therapy, 19
of smokeless tobacco, 14
African-American adolescents
smoking prevalence trends among, 8
smoking progression in, 40
African Americans, projected smoking-related deaths among, 8
Agency for Health Care Policy arid Research, nicotine replacement therapy guidelines of, 54
Age of onset
of drug abuse, 12
of nicotine dependence, 55
of smoking initiation, 2,28
implication for smoking cessation, 12-13
Aggressive behavior, of adolescent smokers, 56
Alcohol abuse treatment, of smokers, 78
Alcohol use, by smokers, 78 by cigar smokers, 8
American Medical Association, 67,68
Anger, as withdrawal symptom, 34
Antidepressants, as smoking cessation aid, 18,20
Anxiety
as nicotine withdrawal symptom, 29
as smoking risk factor, gender differences in, 101
Anxiety, of adolescent smokers, 56
Aschenbach Child Behavior Checklist, 56
Attitudes, toward smoking, as smoking risk factor, 99
Behavioral interventions, for smoking cessation, combined with nicotine replacement therapy, 54-55,67-68,69
Boredom alleviation, as smoking motivation, 15,39
Brain, effect of nicotine on, 58-59
Bronchitis, smoking-related, 52
Brown, Sandra, 82
Bupropion, as smoking cessation aid, 18,20
Carbon monoxide
as cigarette smoke component, 59-60
expired-air, as nicotine dependence indicator, 31-32,36
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2
Office on Smoking and Health, Youth Tobacco Cessation Meeting, 7
Children, nicotine dependence in, 55
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Developing Treatment for Tobacco Addicted Youth-Issues and Challenges
- Are Adolescent Smokers Addicted to Nicotine? The Suitability of the Nicotine Dependence Construct as Applied to Adolescents
- A Critical Evaluation of Nicotine Replacement Therapy for Teenage Smokers
- A Smoking Intervention for Substance Abusing Adolescents: Outcomes, Predictors of Cessation Attempts, and Post-Treatment Substance Use
- Smoking Among Teenage Girls
- Index