Aims This review provides an up‐to‐date curated source of information on alcohol, tobacco
and illicit drug use and their associated mortality and burden of disease. Limitations in the …

Background Despite the high global burden of diseases caused by tobacco, valid and
comparable prevalence data for patterns of adult tobacco use and factors influencing use …

This paper describes the conceptual model that underlies the International Tobacco Control
Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project), whose mission is to measure the psychosocial and …

Data from multiple studies suggest that depression plays a role in cigarette smoking. To
obtain a national perspective on the role of depression in the dynamics of smoking, we …

ContextIn recent years, smoking among adolescents has increased and the decline of adult
smoking has slowed to nearly a halt; new insights into tobacco dependency are needed to …

Background. Many believe that the prospect of weight gain discourages smokers from
quitting. Accurate estimates of the weight gain related to the cessation of smoking in the …

Using data from the 1986 Adult Use of Tobacco Survey, we analyzed smoking-cessation
methods used by adult smokers in the United States who tried to quit. About 90% of …

Abstract BACKGROUND: The American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute (NCI),
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including the National Center …

This article examines data from 10 long-term prospective studies (N> 5,000) in relation to
key issues about the self-quitting of smoking, especially those discussed by S. Schachter …

An inability to maintain abstinence is a key indicator of tobacco dependence. Unfortunately,
little evidence exists regarding the ability of the major tobacco dependence measures to …