"Our questionnaire is designed to compare dependence across different products simply by substituting the different product name into the questionnaire in place of cigarettes." Additional researchers on this project are Susan Veldheer, research coordinator, Jessica Yingst, research assistant, and Shari Hrabovsky, research nurse practitioner, all at Penn State College of Medicine
The theoretical and methodological approach was the same one that would be used in later studies by this group: "Since the DSM-IV definition of nicotine dependence does not allow for the possibility that dependence might start before "prolonged heavy use", the DSM-IV criteria were not used in this study
When choline isnt properly broken down, it causes a buildup of triethylamine
It tracks cigarettes not smoked, money saved, and life regained using WHO estimates on smoking-related life loss - the "life regained" number starts small and builds in a way that compounds psychologically over weeks
Mechanistic studies of n-MP effects on 42 nAChR We conducted competition experiments on the effects n-MP on the ACh-evoked responses of HS and LS 42 receptors (Figure 7 and Supplemental Figure 1)