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The Functions of Smoking

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Part of the book series: Advances in Behavioral Biology ((ABBI,volume 31))

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This chapter will outline the functional view of smoking. Smoking in this paper will be taken to refer to cigarette smoking. This functional approach regards smoking as a person’s use of nicotine to control his/her psychological state. This view is a formalization of ideas that have been discussed previously in a series of papers from our laboratory (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and other laboratories (6, 7). In our papers smoking was described as a form of “self-medication,” a coping strategy for everyday problems and the functional model can be seen as a more general form of this view without the quasi-medical connotations. The work of Ashton and Stepney (7) described smoking as a “psychological tool,” i.e., in functional terms.

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    David M. Warburton

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536, USA

    William R. Martin

  2. Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration Medical Center University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40511, USA

    Glen R. Van Loon

  3. Department of Pharmacology College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536, USA

    Edgar T. Iwamoto

  4. The Tobacco and Health Research Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 40536, USA

    Edgar T. Iwamoto

  5. Tobacco and Health Research Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 04546-0236, USA

    Layten Davis (Director) (Director)

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Warburton, D.M. (1987). The Functions of Smoking. In: Martin, W.R., Van Loon, G.R., Iwamoto, E.T., Davis, L. (eds) Tobacco Smoking and Nicotine. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 31. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1911-5_4

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