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The Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence-Smokeless Tobacco (FTND-ST) [An article from: Addictive Behaviors]
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The Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence-Smokeless Tobacco (FTND-ST) [An article from: Addictive Behaviors] | Digital

by J.O. Ebbert (Author), C.A. Patten (Author), D.R. Schroeder (Author)

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Binding:  Digital
Publisher:  Elsevier
Page Count:  5 Pages
Publication Date:  September 01, 2006


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This digital document is a journal article from Addictive Behaviors, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: Few nicotine dependence measures have been developed for smokeless tobacco (ST) users. Existing measures are limited by the requirement to rate the nicotine content of ST brands for which data is scarce or non-existent. We modified the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND) for ST users, referred to this scale as the FTND-ST, and evaluated its characteristics in a population of 42 ST users. The correlation between the FTND-ST total score and the serum cotinine concentrations was 0.53 (p
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