Background: Nicotine dependence and internet addiction are two important problems among university student. Aims: We aimed to determine the prevalence of ND IA students, investigate parameters that affect these clinical problems. Study design: This study is designed as a descriptive, cross-sectional, epidemiological study. Methods: The academicians Department Family Medicine formed questionnair...

AIM Our study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of tobacco use among factory workers and identify the predicting factors for quitting tobacco use. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a total of 640 factory workers were included and divided into the quitter group and who had never quit the tobacco habit in the past. Data were collected by standardized and validated questionnair...

BACKGROUND: Smoking behavior in Indonesia increases from year to year. The adverse effects of smoking do not appear directly after the cigarette use, but they will be seen a few months or even several years. include nicotine dependence, and anxiety disorder felt as part withdrawal symptoms. AIM: This research aims identify if there is correlation between dependence level adolescents. METHODS: s...

Introduction/Aim: Fagerstrom test for Nicotine Dependency (FNDT) is one of the most frequent tools used to assess nicotine dependency in primary care. Today, apart from classical cigarette smoking many addicts may prefer other methods (e-cigarette, hookah, pipe, cigars, light users or directly tobacco users) gather nicotine. The main aim this study evaluate effectiveness FNDT non-classical addi...

INTRODUCTION The health level of the population and the way people perceive it has been associated with their physical and mental health, as well as with their social and occupational characteristics. PURPOSE The comparative assessment of mental and health level in shipbuilding industry workers and general population and its relationship to social and economic parameters. METHODS A group of...

BACKGROUND While the heritability of cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence (ND) is well-documented, the contribution of specific genetic variants to specific phenotypes has not been closely examined. The objectives of this study were to test the associations between 321 tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that capture common genetic variation in 24 genes, and early smoking and ND...

OBJECTIVE To assess nicotine dependence among adolescents to determine whether quitting smoking is associated with the emergence of nicotine withdrawal symptoms and craving, and to identify the factors associated with these symptoms. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS We studied 2197 10th-grade students in 6 San Jose, Calif, high schools. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Smoking status; his...

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking is known to be an important contributor to a wide variety of chronic diseases, especially in older adults. Information on health policy and practice, as well as evaluation of smoking cessation programs targeting older people, is almost nonexistent. PURPOSE To compare the real-world implementation of behavioral group therapy in relation to education alone for elderly...