A significant percentage of smokers attempting cessation lapse to smoking within a matter of
days and very few of these individuals recover to achieve abstinence. Current models of …

Women may be at relatively greater risk of smoking-related diseases than men but tend to
have less success than men in quitting smoking. The failure of most outcome studies to …

Most attempts to quit smoking end in failure, with many quitters relapsing in the first few
days. Responses to smoking-related cues may precipitate relapse. A modified emotional …

Background A" teachable moment" is an event that motivates spontaneous behavior
change. Some evidence suggests that major surgery for a smoking-related illness can serve …

Although smoking cessation is clearly beneficial, many smokers respond poorly to smoking
cessation efforts with rather disappointing overall success rate of long-term abstinence. The …

Objective: Web-based smoking cessation interventions have high reach, but low
effectiveness. To address this problem, we conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial of …

Substance use disorder (SUD) onset, trajectory, comorbidity, and outcome can differ greatly
according to sex and gender. Mindfulness-based interventions are promising treatments for …

The co-morbidity between smoking and mood disorders is striking. Preclinical and clinical
studies of nicotinic effects on mood, anxiety, aggression, and related behaviors, such as …

This study addressed the hypothesis that exaggerated mood and cortisol changes during
the first 24h of smoking abstinence are associated with early relapse. Salivary cortisol levels …

Stress is a commonly reported precipitant of relapse to substance use. There is a growing
recognition of the need to understand psychobiological alterations in the stress response …