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A step-wise approach to assessing tobacco use and addiction. Disease Interrupted: A clinical guide to tobacco reduction and cessation. 2nd Edition

Most tobacco users know the power of addiction and want to quit. Evidence tells a vivid and chilling story of the dire and urgent need to support cessation. Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death and disease globally, and it contributes to...

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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Milan Khara and Chizimuzo Okoli

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Adolescents’ self-defined tobacco use status, marijuana use, and tobacco dependence

Aims: To examine differences in tobacco use and dependence between adolescents who are and are not marijuana users…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Chris G. Richardson, Pamela A. Ratner, and Joy L. Johnson

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Correlates of secondhand tobacco smoke exposure among persons with severe mental illness accessing community mental health services.

To examine the correlates of secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure in a sample of individuals with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) accessing community mental health services…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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Smoking cessation interventions among individuals in methadone maintenance: A brief review.

Individuals in methadone maintenance treatment are motivated to quit smoking and are interested in smoking cessation treatment…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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A Systematic Review of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Diagnostic Criteria for Nicotine Dependence.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual diagnostic criteria for nicotine dependence (DSM-ND) are based on the proposition that dependence is a syndrome that can be diagnosed only when a minimum of 3 of the 7 proscribed features are present…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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Gender-specific profiles of tobacco use among non-institutionalized people with serious mental illness.

In many countries, smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death. In North America, reductions in population smoking levels are stabilizing and, in recent years, those involved in tobacco control programming…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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The Tobacco Dependence Clinic: Intensive tobacco dependence treatment in an addiction services out-patient setting.

We present outcomes from an intensive tobacco-dependence treatment program for addiction services clients at three different sites…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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Nicotine dependence and gender differences in smokers accessing community mental health services.

Despite evidence of differences in smoking behavior between women and men, few studies have assessed these differences in individuals with mental illnesses…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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Sex differences in smoking cessation outcomes of a tailored program for individuals with substance use disorders and mental illness.

Tobacco use is highly prevalent among individuals with a history of substance use disorders (SUD) and/or mental illness (MI)…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Milan Khara, Iris Torchalla, Mary H.H. Ensom, John L. Oliffe, Joan L. Bottorff, and Paul J Stanley

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Smoking and predictors of nicotine dependence in a homeless population.

To assess prevalence rates of tobacco use and dependence in a sample of homeless individuals and to investigate trends for demographic and clinical characteristics across different levels of nicotine dependence…

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Dimensions of Wellbeing
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