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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 |
| | tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour saut |
| | 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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