Not yet approved by the FDA for smoking cessation. A psychotherapeutic approach aimed at identifying and modifying faulty or distorted negative thinking styles and the maladaptive behaviors associated with those thinking styles. A smoking cessation strategy that involves abrupt cessation of smoking. When a smoker inhales more smoke, or smokes more intensely, to compensate for reductions in nicotine content of tobacco smoke or number of cigarettes smoked per day. Coronary Artery Disease.
Smoking is a major risk factor for coronary artery disease.
Cotinine is nicotine's major metabolite, which has a significantly longer half-life than nicotine. Cotinine is commonly measured in serum, urine, and saliva. A powerful, often uncontrollable, desire for drugs. A chronic, relapsing disease characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and use and by neurochemical and molecular changes in the brain. Previously depressed smokers are half as likely to be able to quit smoking without specialized treatment.