The authors of this well-written and uncompromising work are experts in the fields of biobehaviorial health, behavioural biology and addiction psychology. They review the severe problems caused by smoking and examine individual and public health approaches to reducing smoking and its attendant health problems. Cigarettes, Nicotine and Health is written in a scholarly yet accessible format that brings the latest work of these high calibre research experts to students and academics. This work will be of interest to students in drugs and health psychology courses, as well as nurses, psychologists and health promotion researchers. * a biobehavioral framework gives equal emphasis to psychosocial and biological factors * interdisciplinary scope provides a broad perspective from disciplines as diverse as social and cognitive psychology, behavioral pharmacology, physiology, epidemiology, history, medicine, and public health policy
Janet Brigham, Ph.D. is a senior researcher in SRI International's Center for Health Sciences. In this role, she focuses on developing effective ways to study tobacco use and to design technology-based treatment options. She and a team are testing and deploying an evidence-based, data-driven smoking cessation mobile app that applies a personalization algorithm in a dynamic, interactive format. The team hopes to extend this approach to additional behaviorally based health interventions. An experimental psychologist with a focus on clinical neuropsychology, she received postdoctoral training in tobacco research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit, the National Institute on Drug Abuse Addiction Research Center, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. She earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Brigham Young University. She started studying psychology after earning bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism and communications and a 15-year career as a journalist, author, and editor. Brigham was a full-time consultant to the World Health Organization's Tobacco-Free Initiative, and has been a research psychologist at SRI since 1997, working primarily in addiction research. Author and co-author of two books about nicotine and tobacco, she was an editor of Nicotine & Tobacco Research from 2001 to 2009 (managing editor, 2006 to 2009). Her interest in publishing and dissemination also has involved editing three nonprofit newsletters, one of which recently was judged best of its class in the United States.
Why Bio-Behavioural? Why Cigarettes, Nicotine, and Health? The History of the Use of Nicotine A Tasty Wonder Drug for Many, if Not All, Occasions Who Smokes and What Kills Them What Nicotine Does to the Body The Natural History of a Dependence Disorder Tobacco Use as Nicotine Addiction Smoking, Drinking and Drug-Taking A Bio-behavioural Syndrome `Low-Tar', `Light' Cigarettes Lessons from a Dangerous Boondoggle Helping Smokers Quit Smoking, Public Health and Policy
