Smoking and Human Behaviour
Published on 26. April 1989
Book
Hardback
396 pages
978-0-471-92138-7 (ISBN)
Description
Smoking is the major preventable source of premature death in the Western world. This volume considers some of the key questions surrounding the smoking habit: why do people maintain the habit? How does smoking effect our physiology and biochemistry, brain activity, or variation in mood? Is there objective evidence of the effects of smoking on human performance? Is smoking an addiction? What are the dangers to health of passive or secondary smoking? How successful are large scale programmes for prevention and cessation? The contributors to this book, all of whom are recognized authorities in the field of smoking and human behaviour, address these questions, many of which are controversial. Aiming to provide a balanced and critical view of theories of smoking and research into the effects of smoking on human behaviour, this text should be of interest to researchers in psychology and psychophysiology, pharmacologists and health workers concerned with effects of passive smoking on health - and perhaps even smokers themselves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
13 line figures, author index, subject index
Dimensions
Height: 55 mm
Width: 35 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-92138-7 (9780471921387)
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Content
Introduction: the key questions about smoking behaviour, Anthony Gale and Tara Ney. Part 1 Motivation and biological determinants: smoking - motivation and models, Heather Ashton and John F.Golding; tobacco dependence, Murray E.Jarvik and Dorothy K.Hatsukami; a biobehavioural perspective on smoking, Ovide F.Pomerleau and Cynthia S.Pomerleau. Part 2 Psychophysiology, emotion and individual differences: brain event-related potentials (ERPs) in smoking performance research, Verner J.Knott; smoking and the human EEG, Robert E.Church; individual differences and motor systems in smoker motivation, Kieron O'Connor; emotion, anxiety and smoking, David G.Gilbert and Richard Welser. Part 3 Smoking behaviour and human performance: smoking behaviour - a multivariate process, Rico Nil and Karl Battig; attentional processing, David M.Warburton and Anne C.Walters; a critical evaluation of laboratory studies of the effects of smoking on learning and memory, Tara Ney et al; passive smoking, attitudes, health and performance, Roy J.Shephard. Part 4 Attitudes, interventions and social policy: smoking attitudes and behaviour - applications of Fishbein and Ajzen's theory of reasoned action to predicting and understanding smoking decisions, Stephen Sutton; intervening and preventing cigarette smoking, Howard Leventhal et al; the future of tobacco use and smoking research, Robert B.Coambs et al.