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Relationship between alcohol and tobacco dependencies among alcoholics who smoke
Author(s) -
BATEL P.,
PESSIONE F.,
MAÎTRE C.,
RUEFF B.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1995.90797711.x
Subject(s) - alcohol , nicotine , alcohol dependence , population , medicine , smoke , nicotine dependence , pack year , cigarette smoking , psychiatry , environmental health , chemistry , biochemistry , organic chemistry
Outpatients followed in an alcoholic clinic and who fulfilled DSM‐III‐R criteria for alcohol dependence and had used both tobacco (at least one cigarette every day) and alcohol in the preceding week were studied. For each patient, two experimenters assessed: (1) the amount of tobacco and alcohol used; (2) the severity of dependence for each product. Results showed that: (a) The prevalence of smoking in this population of current alcohol dependents was 88%; (b) 91.6% of this sample of smoker alcoholics were dependent on nicotine; (c) the amount of tobacco smoked was correlated to the amount of alcohol consumed and the severity of alcohol dependence; and (d) there was a correlation between the severity of alcohol and nicotine dependencies. The results of this study may help to clarify the difficulty of treating tobacco dependence in alcoholics.