Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health : A Biobehavioral Approach (eBook)

A Biobehavioral Approach

SRI International Janet (Center for Health Sciences California) Brigham, USA) Henningfield Jack E. (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA) Kozlowski Lynn T. (Pennsylvania State University (Autoren)

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2001
208 Seiten
SAGE Publications US (Verlag)
978-1-4522-6432-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Why Bio-Behavioural? Why Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health?
The History of the Use of Nicotine
A Tasty Wonder Drug for Many, if Not All, Occasions
Who Smokes and What Kills Them
What Nicotine Does to the Body
The Natural History of a Dependence Disorder
Tobacco Use as Nicotine Addiction
Smoking, Drinking and Drug-Taking
A Bio-behavioural Syndrome
`Low-Tar', `Light' Cigarettes
Lessons from a Dangerous Boondoggle
Helping Smokers Quit
Smoking, Public Health and Policy

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2001
• Reihe/Serie: Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology
• Reihe/Serie: Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology
• Verlagsort: Thousand Oaks
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Suchtkrankheiten
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Health Psychology • Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine • Public Health Education/Health Promotion
• ISBN-10: 1-4522-6432-5 / 1452264325
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4522-6432-5 / 9781452264325