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Optimizing tobacco cessation treatment with lung cancer screening
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Optimizing tobacco cessation treatment with lung cancer screening

by University of Minnesota Visual Abstract. Optimizing Longitudinal Tobacco Cessation Treatment in Lung Cancer Screening. Credit: JAMA Network Open (2023). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.29903Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States, and 80% of lung cancer deaths are linked to one risk factor: smoking. While lung cancer screenings are a critical part of prevention and treatment...

Secret behind ‘nic-sickness’ could help break tobacco addiction
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Secret behind ‘nic-sickness’ could help break tobacco addiction

by Robert Sanders, University of California – Berkeley Nicotine is addictive because it activates the brain’s dopamine network, which makes us feel good. UC Berkeley researchers now show in experiments on mice that nicotine in high doses also activates a recently discovered dopamine network that responds to unpleasant stimuli. This aversive dopamine network could be...