| Title |
Antidepressants for smoking cessation
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, January 2014
|
| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd000031.pub4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John R Hughes, Lindsay F Stead, Jamie Hartmann‐Boyce, Kate Cahill, Tim Lancaster |
| Abstract |
There are at least three reasons to believe antidepressants might help in smoking cessation. Firstly, nicotine withdrawal may produce depressive symptoms or precipitate a major depressive episode and antidepressants may relieve these. Secondly, nicotine may have antidepressant effects that maintain smoking, and antidepressants may substitute for this effect. Finally, some antidepressants may have a specific effect on neural pathways (e.g. inhibiting monoamine oxidase) or receptors (e.g. blockade of nicotinic-cholinergic receptors) underlying nicotine addiction. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 7 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Peru | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Chile | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Colombia | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 6% |
| Unknown | 17 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 27 | 75% |
| Scientists | 5 | 14% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 6% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 490 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 482 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 74 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 68 | 14% |
| Researcher | 60 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 52 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 39 | 8% |
| Other | 90 | 18% |
| Unknown | 107 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 161 | 33% |
| Psychology | 49 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 33 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 18 | 4% |
| Other | 78 | 16% |
| Unknown | 132 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
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#668,272
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Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1,229
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#6,809
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#23
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