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Background: Several scientific studies indicate that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a risk factor for the development of pathological addiction, including Tobacco Use Disorder (TUD). Despite various hypotheses proposed to explain the reasons for this frequent comorbidity, the limited amount of research aimed at describing the ch...
Nicotine addiction is a widespread, worldwide epidemic, causing six million deaths per year. A large variety of treatments for smoking cessation are currently available, including Cytisine, which is a promising drug due to its low cost and high safety levels. Notwithstanding the important amount of research on tobacco addiction treatments, smoking...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown period lasted from March to May 2020, resulted in a highly stressful situation yielding different negative health consequences, including the worsening of smoking habit.
Methods
A web-based cross-sectional study on a convenient sample of 1013 Italian ever smokers aged 18 years or more was conducted...
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most successful protocol in gambling disorder (GD) treatment. However, it presents some weaknesses, especially concerning relapse prevention (RP). RP is one of the most important therapeutic steps, aiming at managing cravings and to avoid future relapse increasing perceived self-efficacy. Encouraging result...
Young adults exhibit greater sensitivity than adults to nicotine reinforcement, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) increases the risk for early-onset smoking. We investigated the correlation between ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) scores and smoking, evaluated the prevalence of ADHD symptomatology (not diagnoses) in smokers and non-s...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and control measures may have had an impact on unpleasant emotions experimented during the lockdown (LD). This may have increased the number of hours spent online and could have impacted the quality of the enacted behavior, in terms of loss of control of Internet use. In this online survey, we were interested in me...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic and control measures may have had an impact on unpleasant emotions experimented during the lockdown (LD). This may have increased the number of hours spent online and could have impacted the quality of the enacted behavior, in terms of loss of control of Internet use. In this online survey, we were interested in mea...
Pubblicato nella sezione " IL PUNTO SU " della rivista italiana di formazione e confronto sulle patologie da dipendenza "Dal fare al dire".
Pubblicato sulla rivista italiana Tabaccologia.
Pubblicato sulla rivista "Tabaccologia".
Premio SITAB "G. Invernizzi" 2018 (La ricerca in Tabaccologia): 3° premio per la ricerca:
"Fumo, ergo gioco e bevo: pregiudizio o dato di realtà? Relazione tra fumo di
sigaretta, gioco d'azzardo e consumo di alcolici nella popolazione adolescenziale". XIV
Congresso Nazionale, Firenze - 8-9 novembre 2018.
Pubblicato su "Dal fare al dire", rivista italiana di formazione e confronto sulle patologie di dipendenza
Medicina delle dipendenze – Italian Journal of the Addictions
