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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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Nicotine may improve cognitive functioning in schizophrenia; 75 to 90% of

schizophrenics are smokers.

Paul Newhouse, M.D., Tenth National Conference on Nicotine Dependence,

Minneapolis, October 17, 1997

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As many as three quarters of all schizophrenics are smokers; other data report that

between 80% and 90% of all hospitalized schizophrenics are smokers.

Tobacco, pp. 85-86

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The prevalence of cigarette smoking can be as high as 90% among persons with

schizophrenia.

Epidemiologic Reviews 17:56, 1995

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Smokers have more sleep difficulties than do nonsmokers and tend to exhibit more

depression, irritability, and anxiety.

Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 1990 edition,

p. 547

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Smoking quadruples the risk of panic attacks - sudden onset of overwhelming feelings

of anxiety, heart palpitations, and shortness of breath.

Time, December 27, 1999, p. 180 (from December 1999 Archives of General

Psychiatry)

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