Cigarettes, nicotine, & health : a biobehavioral approach / Lynn T. Kozlowski, Jack E. Henningfield, Janet Brigham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozlowski, Lynn T.

Contributor:

Henningfield, Jack E.

Brigham, Janet.

Series:

Behavioral medicine and health psychology series ; v. 5.

Behavioral medicine and health psychology series ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tobacco--Physiological effect.

Tobacco.

Tobacco--Psychological aspects.

Nicotine--Physiological aspects.

Nicotine.

Clinical health psychology.

Physical Description:

xi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Cigarettes, nicotine, and health

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, [2001]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Why Biobehavioral? Why Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health? 1

2. The History of the Use of Nicotine: A Tasty Wonder Drug for Many, If Not All, Occasions 13

3. Who Smokes and What Kills Them 31

4. What Nicotine Does to the Body 51

5. The Natural History of a Dependence Disorder 65

6. Tobacco Use as Nicotine Addiction 77.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-174) and indexes.

ISBN:

080395946X

0803959478

OCLC:

45466079