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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 11 Other health problems |
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| | Other health problems: Depression and Psychiatric Problems |
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| | Seriously depressed young people are more likely than others to become daily |
| | smokers, and the tobacco habit itself can also raise the risk of depression. A study |
| | from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland published in the February 1998 |
| | issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry concluded that the link between smoking |
| | and depression is a "two way street." |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, February 12, 1998, p. A3 |
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| | An estimated 30-40% of people who begin smoking cessation programs are |
| | depressed, or about three times the rate of depression in nonsmokers. In another |
| | study, 74% of patients with schizophrenia smoked. |
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| | About a third of smokers have a history of major depression, compared with a lifetime |
| | prevalence of 10% to 15% in the general population. They tend to have only about half |
| | the success rate in smoking cessation as do smokers without a history of |
| | depression. 75% of smokers with a history of major depression developed |
| | depressive symptoms during withdrawal, which quickly disappeared when the patient |
| | returned to smoking. 30% of smokers without a positive history of depression |
| | developed these symptoms during withdrawal. In a St. Louis epidemiologic study, |
| | major depression was more than twice as common in smokers, and 76% of subjects |
| | with a history of depression had ever smoked, compared to 52% without a history of |
| | depression. |
| | Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Conference (Paul Frederickson, M.D.), May 13, |
| | 1997, and Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, October 1996, p. 468 |
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| | Research suggest that cigarette smoke inhibits the activity of monoamine oxidase B |
| | (MAOB); this inhibition may lead to a rise in the brain levels of phenylethylamine, a |
| | neuroactive compound linked to schizophrenia as well as other psychiatric disorders. |
| | Reuters Medical News, October 7, 1997 |
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