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5 lip 2023 · People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to smoke cigarettes and use other nicotine-containing products. Studies also suggest that people with ADHD have a...
What helps cigarette smokers with ADHD to quit? Among the few smoking cessation treatment studies for ADHD smokers, two have examined whether treating ADHD improves smoking cessation rates, which follows the logic of the self-medication hypothesis.
21 lis 2023 · We know that people with ADHD smoke at rates that are significantly higher than their non-ADHD peers. And some use nicotine as a form of self-medication for ADHD symptoms. Therefore, it is possible that identifying and treating ADHD earlier may prevent the onset of smoking altogether.
18 sie 2023 · As a psychologist who treats ADHD, my clients are often frustrated with standard tips, tricks, and “life hacks” for managing their executive dysfunction and other difficulties. So many of these hacks are written by people who do not have ADHD, and they don’t take into account how ADHD brains work.
10 sie 2020 · Relative to the ADHD intervention, the combined intervention buffered against increases in tobacco risk, including reduced intentions to smoke and maladaptive social normative beliefs, and increased parental control, family cohesion, and family communication about substance use.
A thorough examination of the association between stimulant treatment and smoking serves to inform efforts to prevent smoking in ADHD youth, who have not previously been targeted for smoking prevention efforts despite the well-known ADHD-smoking comorbidity.
Research highlighting the potentially significant levels of monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitory properties in tobacco smoke and e-cigarettes may provide a mechanism for increased tobacco smoke dependence among those with ADHD, in addition to the role of nicotine.
