Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Univ., 2001. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

In my work I deal with smoking among clients seeking treatment for depression or neurotic disorders. The aim of my work is to examine the relationship between depression, anxiety and addiction to nicotine.The research was conducted through a questionnaire survey among clients of day care centres and psychiatric department. Overall, participated in the research was 32 respondents, including 20 women and 12 men. The average age of respondents was 39 years. 22 respondents completing the questionnaire identified yourself as regular smokers, 2 as occasional, 3 as ex-smokers and 5 respondents as nonsmokers. The research was conducted from December 2012 to April 2013. I found that respondents smoke as well, if they feel mentally well. If they are mentally ill, smoke more. During hospitalization or visits to day care centres smoke as much or more. Depressed and anxious thoughts of the respondents almost always leads to a light taste. The relationship between smoking and depression I was able to prove only in the group of smokers.

This thesis deals with "Smoking of senior Citizens". Smoking of tobacco is the most significant reason of illnesses and early death in the Czech Republic. Reduction of smoking is a basic condition for decrease of deaths caused by tumour and cardiac diseases.The goal of the thesis is to monitor prevalence of smoking in senior citizens and detect their awareness of smoking. 206 respondents at the age of sixty and above paricipated in this research. 50 % of these people vrote that they had never snoked. 20 % of informants were active smokers, at the time of this survey, and 55 % of senior citizens wrote that they considered nicotine addiction to be a disease.The author tries to verify the hypothesis concerning smoking of senior citizens who suffer from chronic disease. 44 % of the respondents, who were active smokers at the time of the survey, suffered from chronic disease. The researcher uses the next hypothesis because she wants to confirm the fact that senior citizens have a positive attitude to prohibition of smoking in the restaurants and in public areas. The research verified this hypothesis - 72 % of the informants had a positive attitude to prohibition of smoking in public.

Bakgrund: De flesta rökare behöver någon form av stöd för att framgångsrikt uppnå ett rökstopp. Denna litteraturöversikt undersöker metoder som används för rökavvänjning inom hälso- och sjukvården samt hur effektiva dessa metoder var. Ett individanpassat stöd från hälso- och sjukvården samt insikt i hur både sociala och kulturella faktorer påverkar patientens motivation, är viktigt att förstå för att effektivt assistera patienter med deras rökavvänjning. Syfte: Syftet var att undersöka effektiviteten av använda rökavvänjningsmetoder inom hälso- och sjukvård. Metod: Metoden som använts är en litteraturöversikt där befintlig forskning har sammanställts med hjälp av tio artiklar i resultatet. Resultat: Resultatet visade på att framgångsrik rökavvänjning är beroende av en kombination av faktorer. Dessa faktorer består av motivation och varierande former av terapi, nikotinläkemedel samt teknologiska hjälpmedel. Kulturella och sociala faktorer visade sig även ha en betydande roll för att öka chanserna att framgångsrikt uppnå ett rökstopp. Sammanfattning: En personanpassad kombination av terapi i samverkan med nikotinläkemedel ökar patientens chanser att lyckas med ett rökstopp. Tekniska hjälpmedel som metod kan vara en effektiv hjälp vid rökavvänjning. Det behövs dock ytterligare vetenskaplig evidens för att fastslå deras effekt. Anpassningar av vården behövs för att tillgodose de varierande behoven hos olika sociodemografiska grupper.

This diploma thesis deals with the determination of nicotine in different products. The theoretical part summarizes review on nicotine, smoking and opportunities how to quit. In the practical part a method for the determination of nicotine by HPLC / PDA was optimized. As the most suitable stationary phase was selected a Kinetex 5u C18 100A 150 x 4.6 mm column, as the optimal mobile phase was chosen a pure methanol with a flow rate of 1 ml min-1 and a temperature of 25 °C. For the analysis of nicotine were chosen: 18 kinds of cartridges for electronic cigarettes, two kinds of nicotine gum, nicotine spray, nicotine pastilles, nicotine orodispersible film and ten species of classic cigarettes. For each type of product the most appropriate method for extracting nicotine and its subsequent analysis by HPLC / PDA was found. For tobacco 24 hour extraction in methanol and 10s ultrasound was selected. The nicotine spray and electronic cigarette refills without flavours were only diluted with methanol. Flavoured refills were first diluted by sodium hydroxide and then with methanol. For chewing gums, pastilles and nicotine film extraction with 5% sodium hydroxide was chosen. In this study also new experimental nicotine product was designed. Nicotine has been encapsulated in alginate-starch material to form small gel particles. As the most suitable medium for storage the water medium was determined.

Anotation The Master's degree thesis Trends in the use of electronic cigarette in the population of smokers of tobacco products provides a pilot research and analysis of the use of electronic cigarette in the current population of smokers in the Czech Republic. Furthermore, it presents the most common motivation patterns of its consumption among tobacco smokers. To this purpose, the author developped her own questionnaire addressed to a predefined sample of respondents. The first, theoretical part of the thesis is dedicated to analysis of tobacco and nicotine and their effects on human health. Further, the thesis focuses entirely on the analysis of electronic cigarette. The practical part is based on a questionnaire designed and distributed by the author herself directly or through the internet among 105 respondents. The target group are smokers of tobacco products between 25 and 55 years old living in the Czech Republic who have pasively or actively had a contact with electronic cigarette. This is to determine the common attitudes towards the electronic cigarette and analyse the current trends in its use in the population of smokers. The second part of the thesis offers a detailed evaluation of the results of the questionnaire obtained through the answers of 105 respondents, their motivations for its use...

Nicotine was not included in previous efforts to identify the most important toxicants of tobacco smoke. A health risk assessment of nicotine for smokers of cigarettes was conducted using the margin of exposure (MOE) approach and results were compared to literature MOEs of various other tobacco toxicants. The MOE is defined as ratio between toxicological threshold (benchmark dose) and estimated human intake. Dose-response modelling of human and animal data was used to derive the benchmark dose. The MOE was calculated using probabilistic Monte Carlo simulations for daily cigarette smokers. Benchmark dose values ranged from 0.004 mg/kg bodyweight for symptoms of intoxication in children to 3 mg/kg bodyweight for mortality in animals; MOEs ranged from below 1 up to 7.6 indicating a considerable consumer risk. The dimension of the MOEs is similar to those of other tobacco toxicants with high concerns relating to adverse health effects such as acrolein or formaldehyde. Owing to the lack of toxicological data in particular relating to cancer, long term animal testing studies for nicotine are urgently necessary. There is immediate need of action concerning the risk of nicotine also with regard to electronic cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.

Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva hur sjukvårdspersonal kan hjälpa vuxna patienter att sluta röka, en kortare eller längre tid, inför en elektiv operation.Metod: Studien genomfördes som en litteraturöversikt. Genom sökning i databaserna Pubmed och Cinahl erhölls 10 vetenskapliga artiklar. Sökningar genomfördes med både MeSH-termer och fritextsökning. Artiklarna kvalitetsgranskades, analyserades och samanställdes. Resultat: Metoder som kan användas för att hjälpa patienter att sluta röka är olika former av rådgivning och utbildning: hälsoutbildning, program för livsstilsförändringar, sluta-röka-linje. Att erbjuda rådgivning och stöd i kombination nikotinersättningspreparat är fungerande metoder: motiverande samtal och nikotinersättning, regelbunden rådgivning och nikotinersättning, rökavvänjning med hjälp av interaktivt dataprogram, information och hjälp med planering, nikotinersättning och uppmuntrande telefonsamtal. Effekten av nikotinplåster, läkemedel och akupunktstimulering som ensamma metoder var begränsad. Slutsatser: Olika former av rådgivning eller utbildning kan användas när patienter behöver sluta röka inför en elektiv operation. Metoder som kombinerar nikotinersättning och rådgivning eller stöd var mest effektiva. Använder sig sjukvårdspersonal av detta kan lidande minskas, undvika förlängd vårdtid och pengar sparas.

Univ., Diss.--Bremen, 2005. / Literaturverz. S. 256 - 268.

This dissertation deals with the issue of smoking. Its practical part specifies several objectives, one of them being finding out whether the prevalence of smoking within the population is dependant upon the attained qualifications. Establishing the respondents{\crq} views on the harm of smoking is another goal. The approach of the respondents towards a smoking ban in restaurants is demonstrated in this dissertation, so is their awareness of quitting-smoking methods. The decision to give up is also affected by the knowledge and understanding of all the risks bred by smoking, therefore determining the level of the respondents{\crq} awareness of these health risks is another aim of this dissertation. A quantitative research was used in my dissertation to obtain results. A questionnaire of 18 questions was answered by 211 addressed respondents being in the age group of 45-60 years of age. Analysing the outcome it can be said that the prevalence of smoking within the population is not dependant upon the attained qualifications. Nicotine dependence is referred to as a disease therefore the risk of developing an addiction is the same for everyone irrespective of the qualifications accomplished. Nonetheless, the outcome manifests the fact that smokers with lower qualifications smoke a higher amount of cigarettes a day as opposed to smokers with higher qualifications. Considering the results it can be, furthermore, assumed that smokers with lower qualifications are more tolerant towards the nicotine addiction and they feel less unpleasant in a smoky environment. Moreover, their favour for a smoking ban in restaurants and at working places is lower. At the same time, their awareness of possibilities to treat their nicotine addiction as well as of the negative health effects of smoking proved to be lower. Most smokers would like to quit their nicotine addiction (app. 50% lower- qualified individuals and 72% university and college graduates). However, only a very small percentage would seek any professional help when giving up smoking. The unwillingness to treat the nicotine addiction with the help of an expert reflects the unawareness of the severity of such addiction by the smokers themselves. Therefore, the prevention aimed at non-smokers is as important as effecting smokers so that they become more aware of the seriousness and vast consequences of their addiction.