Sentences with phrase «addiction to nicotine»

Addiction to nicotine is specifically excluded from the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 although some of the conditions smoking can cause or contribute to, such as cancer, are covered.

In the footnotes to the Commission's comment that, «the case law is divided on whether addiction to nicotine is a disability,» the OHRC adds the following:

At this time, the case law is divided on whether addiction to nicotine is a disability.

His Diet Pepsi cravings stem from a prior addiction to nicotine, not caffeine.

I found the addiction to sugar and carbs to feel very similar to my addiction to nicotine cigarettes.

Three medicines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help people break their addiction to nicotine, but smoking cessation rates remain low — at about 15 percent — even though some studies say up to 70 percent of smokers want to quit.

This may affect addiction to nicotine.

70 Stroke Injury Shows New Way to Kick the Habit The brain damage caused by certain strokes may eliminate an addiction to nicotine...

The brain damage caused by certain strokes may have a surprise benefit: It can eliminate an addiction to nicotine.

Drugs of abuse release dopamine, and addiction to nicotine is associated with abnormalities in the dopamine system.

Among American high schoolers, vaping reportedly increased by 900 percent between 2011 and 2015, and Murthy says this sharp uptick in e-cigarette use places a new generation at risk of addiction to nicotine, and tobacco - related disease.

So far, Capra's team has found three functional variants, which are associated with addiction to nicotine, a wider waistline, and skin pigmentation.

Smokers who sustain damage to the part of the brain called the insula have their addiction to nicotine virtually vanish.

This conclusion shows how little conception the regulator has of the limited role of chemical addiction to nicotine, next to the social and psychological weight of habitual usage.

Not exact matches

«In order to successfully address cigarette addiction, we must make it possible for current adult smokers who still seek nicotine to get it from alternative and less harmful sources.»

Chrono is finalizing a patch that helps patients overcome nicotine addiction, and is making a similar patch for those addicted to opioids.

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In 1988, however, the U.S. Surgeon General confirmed that nicotine causes a physical addiction similar to and as powerful as those caused by cocaine or heroin.

If you see a character in a movie or on TV with a cigarette, talk about smoking, nicotine addiction, and what smoking does to a person's body.

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For example, one of the main reasons that many smokers begin smoking is due to stress; nicotine can help you to feel more relaxed, however, once the addiction starts, the withdrawal symptoms start to cause even more stress and a craving for another cigarette, causing a vicious cycle to begin.

Nicotine is the substance that causes addiction to cigarettes.

However, long - term use leads to nicotine addiction, with withdrawal exposing users to confusion, restlessness, anxiety and insomnia.

The finding could point the way to better treatments for nicotine addiction and addiction in general.

Yet unlike addictions to substances such as narcotics or nicotine, behavioral addictions to the Internet, food, shopping and even sex are touchy among medical and brain researchers.

As part of a collaborative effort, clinical researchers Rebecca Ashare, PhD, an assistant professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, and Robert Schnoll, PhD, an associate professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction, are studying the effects of metformin on smokers to see if it attenuates negative mood and cognitive deficits during withdrawal — symptoms known to be associated with the ability to quit.

In the review, «Teen Use of Electronic Cigarettes,» published in the Journal of Addictions Nursing, Campbell - Heider calls on health care professionals to place this form of nicotine delivery on their radar when seeing young patients.

In the future, studies are aimed at using novel molecular approaches to selectively delete AMPK in specific brain regions associated with nicotine dependence to better understand the functional role of this protein in addiction.

Perhaps most surprising is that, in studies by Boyd and others, nicotine has not caused addiction or withdrawal when used to treat disease.

In 1979, UCLA neurobiologist Marie - Françoise Chesselet showed that nicotine increases levels of dopamine, a neurotransmitter essential for boosting attention, reward - seeking behaviors and risk of addictions, from gambling to drugs.

Critics contend that lower taxation encourages people to maintain their nicotine addictions, and to start using the drug in the first place, perhaps as a gateway to tobacco.

The researchers expected this impairment to persist even after quitting, which would suggest it could be a marker of vulnerability for nicotine addiction.

But researchers are uncertain if smoking induces those abnormalities or if they already exist and contribute to risk of nicotine addiction.

A team at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond recently found that three genetic polymorphisms — variants in the «spelling» of a certain gene — are connected to nicotine addiction.

In combination, the two studies suggest that «e-cigarettes may contribute to nicotine addiction and are unlikely to discourage conventional cigarette smoking among youths,» said the scientists.

«E-cigarettes: Gateway to nicotine addiction for U.S. teens.»

Young adolescents are especially vulnerable to nicotine addiction, and symptoms of addiction in adolescence predict regular smoking in emerging adulthood.

The goal is to determine whether «the inhibitory effect of cortisol on addictive cravings might also have positive implications for nicotine, alcohol or gambling addiction,» says Dominique de Quervain, Director of the research platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Basel.

The findings, published online August 17 in Tobacco Control, suggest that the primary effect of varenicline (marketed as Chantix) has been to displace the use of older tobacco addiction therapies, such as nicotine patches and the antidepressant, bupropion (Zyban).

Addiction to cocaine is commonly preceded by experiences with legal or decriminalized drugs, such as alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana.

Among cigarette smokers not willing or able to quit smoking in the next month but willing to reduce with the goal of quitting in the next 3 months, use of the nicotine addiction medication varenicline for 24 weeks compared with placebo produced greater reductions in smoking prior to quitting and increased smoking cessation rates at the end of treatment and at 1 year, according to a study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.

Stroud concludes, «These alterations in stress hormones, stress response, and DNA may explain links between moms» smoking during pregnancy and the risk for their children to have behavior problems and nicotine addiction in later life.

By identifying the reactions that take place when people smoke and drink, we may be able to use this knowledge to help curb alcohol and nicotine addiction.»

The results provide strong evidence that the a4 * receptors are sufficient to create nicotine addiction.

Researchers hope new insights into nicotine addiction may lead to better aids for quitting.

Because the genes help produce nicotine's buzz, a team led by Robert Weiss, a geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, wanted to determine if variations in their sequences influence whether people develop a stronger addiction to cigarettes.

It is important to avoid e-cigarettes becoming a trend among adolescents and young adults, or to introduce non-smokers to nicotine addiction and tobacco use,» says Dr. Camilla Stoltenberg, Director - General at the NIPH.

The results of the four experiments in the study also indicate that the weight - suppression properties of nicotine may act through processes that are separate from those that contribute to nicotine addiction.

Lester hopes that the finding will point the way to treatments for people with nicotine addiction.

In a novel effort to understand nicotine addiction, researchers set out to explore the conditions under which nicotine's reinforcement properties first take hold in never - smokers.