Chain smoking
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Chain smoking is the practice of lighting a new cigarette for personal consumption immediately after one that is finished, sometimes using the finished cigarette to light the next one. It is a common form of addiction.[1]
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[edit] Causes
The use of crack cocaine with nicotine results in chain smoking.[2]
The extent to which chain smoking is driven by nicotine dependence has been studied. It does not seem that the amount of nictotine delivered is a significant factor as the puff volume correlates poorly with the frequency of cigarette consumption.[3]
[edit] Clinical use
Chain-smoking is given as an example of excessive addictive behaviour in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.[4] It may be used as a form of aversion therapy for smokers who are unused to such heavy smoking, inducing them to give up altogether.[5]
[edit] Ventilation
An airflow of about 1000 cubic feet per minute per smoker is required to maintain satisfactory air quality when the smokers are chain smoking.[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Charles Gerras, The encyclopedia of common diseases, p. 17, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U7NZwYhrBWIC
- ^ Gary L. Fisher, Nancy A. Roget (2008), Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery, p. 194, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wPJ-39gVHE0C
- ^ Kolonen S, Tuomisto J, Puustinen P, Airaksinen MM. (1992), "Effects of smoking abstinence and chain-smoking on puffing topography and diurnal nicotine exposure", Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 42(2): 327-32, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1631188
- ^ Helen Keane, What's Wrong with Addiction?, p. 100, http://books.google.com/books?id=QqZsDnXS3-cC
- ^ James Cocores, The Clinical management of nicotine dependence, http://books.google.com/books?id=f-lrAAAAMAAJ
- ^ Brian Allan Rock, Ventilation for environmental tobacco smoke, p. 48, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PDupTtFRClkC
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