Biopsychosocial Treatment of Nicotine Dependency: Family Participation Versus No Partner Group Treatment
Year: 1995
Type: other
Abstract: ProblemSantayana forewarned that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it (Munitz, 1939).Unfortunately, knowledge alone is insufficient to produce change.Despite twenty-eight Surgeon General reports documenting the health consequences of nicotine use, cigarette smoking is the primary cause of premature mortality in the United States.Each year 430,000 deaths, 1 in every 6, are directly attributed to smoking (Centers for Disease Control, 1992).Knowledge is insufficient because nicotine is a highly addictive substance that effects both the brain and the nervous system (Henningfield, 1984) and has been found to be "as addictive or more addictive than heroin and cocaine" (U.S.Department of Health and Human Service, 1988, pp. 247-305).In 1992, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new product to assist smokers who want to quit.Early research on the safety of "the patch" found this product to be beneficial in reducing the negative symptoms associated with nicotine withdrawal (Bannon, Corish,
Author: Rey Martinez
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W974732533