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Feature Articles -
Nicotine Addiction
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Written by Hannah K. Knudsen, PhD & William L. White, MA
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:42 |
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 The question of how nicotine dependence should or should not be addressed within the context of addiction treatment has been a controversial issue from the inception of addiction treatment in the United States. Many nineteenth-century inebriate asylums and private addiction- cure institutes demanded cessation of smoking as a condition of treatment for other drug dependencies. Bottled and boxed miracle cures for the “tobacco habit” were promulgated alongside cures for alcoholism and morphine addiction. The first textbooks on addiction (then referred to as inebriety) included chapters on “tobaccoism,” and intense debate raged in the first addiction medicine journal—the Journal of Inebriety, 1875–1914—on the relationship between nicotine addiction and other addictions and how and when it could be best treated (White, 1998). The debate continues more than a century later, but accumulating scientific findings, shifts in cultural attitudes toward smoking and growing clinical experience within addiction treatment are tipping the scales of this debate.
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Feature Articles -
Nicotine Addiction
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 00:00 |
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Many addiction treatment professionals have negative attitudes toward treatments that address smoking cessation. They may be smokers themselves; or for numerous reasons, the facility or the agency they work for has no interest in attacking the problem. |
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Feature Articles -
Nicotine Addiction
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Written by Carol L. Falkowski
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Thursday, 31 July 2003 16:00 |
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The negative health effects of tobacco use are well known. It’s no secret that alcoholics and drug addicts are heavy tobacco users, but many addiction treatment programs and professionals remain reluctant to tackle nicotine addiction head-on. While recent research suggests positive benefits from simultaneous treatment of nicotine and alcohol/other drug addiction, many in the addiction treatment field have yet to fundamentally change the way they do business when it comes to nicotine-addicted patients. This article presents the basic facts about tobacco use and nicotine addiction, and discusses the barriers and advantages of providing nicotine dependence treatment in a primary alcohol and drug addiction treatment setting.
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Feature Articles -
Nicotine Addiction
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Monday, 31 May 1999 16:00 |
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Who could ask for more in one drug? Smoking is a
stimulant for the weary and a tranquilizer for the anxious, depending on how the
drug is inhaled. Tobacco can be used to stimulate smokers and to calm them.
Shallow puffs increase alertness because low doses of nicotine facilitate the
release of acetylcholine, a powerful stimulant. Deep drags are relaxing because
high doses of nicotine block the flow of acetylcholine.
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