Abstract
The University of Wisconsin Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) has focused on several linked topics: (a) improving our assessment and understanding of nicotine dependence, (b) exploring factors that cause or modulate relapse risk, (c) identifying genetic influences on nicotine dependence and cessation success, and (d) testing smoking cessation interventions and determining their mechanisms of action. This developmental research effort produced a new questionnaire that is now being widely used to assess nicotine dependence: the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives (WISDM-68), which has good psychometric properties and is appropriate for use with a broad range of smokers (men and women, ethnic minorities; Piper et al., 2004). This work also produced direct evidence that nicotine dependence is indeed multidimensional, revealing which aspects of dependence are most associated with heightened relapse risk, withdrawal severity, and heavy smoking (Piper et al.).
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