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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 27m
The Message That E-Cigarettes Are Less Harmful Than Combustible Cigarettes Is Not Getting Through

Letter from Neil McKeganey et al.

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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 23h
Adults who smoke attending the emergency department who received a smoking cessation intervention were significantly more likely to report abstinence 18 months after randomization, find Ian Pope et al.

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Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Trial
AbstractIntroduction. Emergency Departments (EDs) offer a valuable opportunity to deliver smoking cessation interventions. Long-term abstinence confers the
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 5d
The BDNF-Trk-β/IL-6 cascade in the cerebral cortex may prevent nicotine relapse by alleviating hyperalgesia and neuropathic pain during smoking cessation/nicotine withdrawal, find Vishakha Shrimali et al.

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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 6d
Cigarette Smoking with Serious Mental Illness: US Provider and Veteran Beliefs About How to Quit

Article by Corinne Kacmarek et al.

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Cigarette Smoking with Serious Mental Illness: US Provider and Veteran Beliefs About How to Quit
AbstractIntroduction. Veterans with serious mental illness (SMI) have high cigarette smoking rates and want to quit, but mental health providers are often
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 8d
Understanding the Emergence, Use, and Appeal of Nicotine Pouches: From the Chemistry Lab to TikTok

Editorial by Alayna Tackett et al.

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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 8d
Implementation science tools were unevenly utilized in tobacco control research in the U.S. reported from 2000-2020, finds scoping review by Rebecca Selove et al.

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A Scoping Review of Implementation Science in Planning and Delivering Tobacco Control Interventions in the United States from 2000 to 2020: Frameworks, Intervention Characteristics, and Health Equity ...
AbstractIntroduction. Evidence-based interventions to reduce tobacco-related morbidity and mortality are not widely or effectively implemented, thereby fai
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 13d
On-pack pictorial warning labels featuring monetary savings, empathetic health messages, and family-oriented benefits can stimulate thoughts of quitting more effectively than a health-oriented label designed to arouse fear, find Philip Gendall et al.

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How Do People Who Smoke Respond to Novel Tobacco Pack Warnings? Two Cross-Sectional Studies from Aotearoa New Zealand
AbstractIntroduction. On-pack pictorial warning labels (PWLs) typically feature graphic health risks of smoking. We examined whether expanding the themes f
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 16d
Study by Daining Song et al. funds abnormalities in the local functional activity of white matter in young smokers, and the aberrant activity was related the severity of smoking.

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A Study of Localized Spontaneous Activity Changes in Cerebral White Matter in Adolescent Smoking Addiction
AbstractIntroduction. Previous research has primarily concentrated on alterations in spontaneous brain activity within the gray matter of young smokers; ho
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 19d
Flavored e-cigarette policies are effective at reducing past 30-day and established e-cigarette use among younger adults (age 21-29), but the impact among older adults (30+) is less evident, find John Kingsbury et al.

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The effects of state-level flavored electronic cigarette restrictions on adult tobacco use using multilevel modeling: Findings from the PATH Study Waves 5 & 7 (2018-2023)
AbstractIntroduction. Flavors play an important role in e-cigarette use among both young people and adults, but evaluations of flavored e-cigarette policie
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 21d
Ploom, Pax Labs, and Juul Labs used entertainment industry firms and outreach to prop masters to obtain free numerous product placements, find Tanner Wakefield et al.

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Efforts to Secure Nicotine and Cannabis Product Placements in Popular Media by Ploom, Pax, and Juul: An Analysis of Tobacco Industry Documents
AbstractIntroduction. Tobacco companies advertised cigarettes in popular media to increase social acceptability. Most research on e-cigarette product place
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 21d
Sexual minority adults in Hispanic groups, particularly Hispanic sexual minority females, may be at increased risk for e-cigarette use compared with Hispanic heterosexual females, find Juhan Lee and Andy Tan.

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E-cigarette use at the intersection of sexual identity and race/ethnicity among US adults: Results from 2021-2023 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
AbstractIntroduction. Understanding e-cigarette use among those with multiple intersecting marginalized identities is important since those individuals mig
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 26d
“Light touch” culturally tailored tobacco cessation support before or after Ramadan was felt more promising than supporting cessation initiation during Ramadan, find Felix Naughton et al.

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Designing Religiously Informed and Culturally Acceptable Tobacco Cessation Interventions for UK-Based Muslims
AbstractIntroduction. Globally, tobacco use rates in Muslim communities, particularly among men, are significantly higher than in non-Muslim communities. I
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 27d
NFL-101 at a dose of 100 μg increased 6-week post-quit 28-day continuous smoking abstinence that was confirmed by urinary cotinine, finds RCT by Claire Lafay-Chebassier et al.

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Efficacy and Safety of NFL-101 as a Smoking Cessation Therapy: A Randomized Phase II Clinical Trial CESTO2
AbstractIntroduction. Tobacco addiction remains a major public health challenge. Existing smoking cessation treatments require prolonged daily use with pot
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 28d
Lower-income groups are more price-responsive than the high-income group in reducing smoking participation but smokers in these lower-income groups are not price-responsive in reducing smoking intensity, find Courtney Keeler et al.

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Price-Responsiveness of Cigarette Smoking Behaviors across Income Groups in the United States
AbstractIntroduction. To compare price-responsiveness of smoking participation and intensity across U.S. income groups.Methods. We pooled the 2015-2016, 20
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · 29d
Secondhand e-cigarette and tobacco smoke exposure remains highly prevalent among U.S 6th-12th graders and is strongly associated with early stages of e-cigarette use, but not later stages, find Stephen Freeman et al.

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Secondhand E-cigarette and Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Stages of E-cigarette Use in U.S 6th-12th Graders
AbstractIntroduction. Studies examining the association of secondhand exposures with e-cigarette use behaviors have been limited by indirect or incomplete
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9
Urinary tobacco biomarkers are non-linearly associated with transitions in tobacco product use, find Andrew Brouwer et al.

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Urinary tobacco and nicotine exposure biomarkers as predictors of transitions between cigarette and e-cigarette use in the Exhale longitudinal cohort study
AbstractIntroduction. Urinary tobacco and nicotine exposure biomarkers may be predictive of subsequent transitions in product use.Methods. We used data fro
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Sep 8
What tranSPIREs from recent research on e-cigarettes? Towards a comprehensive approach to model vaping policies

Editorial by Lion Shahab and Hazel Squires

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What tranSPIREs from recent research on e-cigarettes? Towards a comprehensive approach to model vaping policies.
Lion Shahab, PhD, Hazel Squires, PhD; What tranSPIREs from recent research on e-cigarettes? Towards a comprehensive approach to model vaping policies., Nic
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Sep 5
Cognitive-behavioral counseling for smoking cessation is more effective in achieving abstinence in the presence of varenicline, suggests study by Jennifer Minnix et al.

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Characterization of Cognitive-Behavioral Counseling Duration Thresholds for Effective Tobacco Treatment
AbstractIntroduction. The purpose of this study was to characterize the dose–response relationship between duration of cognitive-behavioral counseling and
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Sep 2
“Stealth vaping is everywhere” suggests qualitative study of young Māori adults in New Zealand by Robin Quigg et al.

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“Stealth Vaping Is Everywhere”: The Narratives of Young Māori Adults in New Zealand
AbstractIntroduction. Vape use is increasing, particularly among young people who have never been cigarette smokers. Stealth vaping, that is, discrete use
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1
📢 Call for special issues

We are seeking proposals for special editions of NTR themed around a certain topic (Guest Editors wanted!)

Submit proposals to [email protected]
Deadline: 1 Oct 2025
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Aug 29
Meta-analysis by Shiya Ji et al. suggests a bidirectional association between e-cigarette use and depression.

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Bidirectional Association Between E-Cigarette Use and Depression: A Meta-Analysis
AbstractIntroduction. Previous studies have indicated a potential bidirectional association between the use of e-cigarettes (ECs) and depression. However,
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Aug 27
Text warnings covering a range of health harms may be effective in discouraging waterpipe tobacco smoking among young adults, find Erin Sutfin et al.

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Development and Testing of Waterpipe Tobacco Text and Pictorial Warnings among Young Adults in the U.S.
AbstractIntroduction. Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) is associated with health harms, yet the U.S. requires only a single text warning.Methods. We develop
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Aug 24
A DNA methylation marker, cg05575921 (AHRR), outperforms self-reported smoking exposure for its association with cardiovascular disease prevalence, find Gregory Jones et al.

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A DNA Methylation Marker, cg05575921 (AHRR), Outperforms Self-Reported Smoking Exposure for Its Association With Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence
AbstractBackground. The differential DNA methylation (DNAm) of the CpG site cg05575921, within the gene body of AHRR, has been shown to be a robust indicat
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Aug 22
Appeal of e-cigarettes and Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs) remains relatively low among people who have never used e-cigarettes, HTPs or smoking tobacco in the European Union, but is higher among younger age groups, find Charlotte Li et al.

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Perceptions of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products among never users of nicotine in the European Union
AbstractIntroduction. Emerging tobacco and nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs), are gaining popularity, particularly
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Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21
rom Invisibility to Action: Tobacco Control Research for Arab Americans in the New Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) Ethnic Category

Commentary by Sarah Alnahari et al.

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From Invisibility to Action: Tobacco Control Research for Arab Americans in the New Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) Ethnic Category
Sarah Alnahari, PhD, Vera Inoue Terris, MA, Lina Salam, MS, Gamila Abdelhalim, LLM, Juliet P Lee, PhD; From Invisibility to Action: Tobacco Control Researc
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