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2913 – Character Traits of Heavy Smoking Adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

O.I. Speranskaya ,
V. Smirnov ,
K. Bogdanov ,
I. Larina  and
I. Tretiokova
O.I. Speranskaya
Affiliation:
Tobacco Dependence Department, Serbsky National Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow, Russia
V. Smirnov
Affiliation:
Tobacco Dependence Department, Serbsky National Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow, Russia
K. Bogdanov
Affiliation:
Tobacco Dependence Department, Serbsky National Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow, Russia
I. Larina
Affiliation:
Tobacco Dependence Department, Serbsky National Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow, Russia
I. Tretiokova
Affiliation:
Tobacco Dependence Department, Serbsky National Research Centre for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

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Objectives:

The aim of the study was to disclose the meaning of both clinico-psychopathological and character traits of smoking adolescents in organizing special antinicotine programs.

Methods:

85 adolescents, middle age 16,1, regular smoking period more, then 1 year. All the adolescents had special clinical signs of tobacco dependence (TD): easy-going adaptation to nicotine intoxication; fast growth of smoking intensity, 1 cigarette per day; the craving for tobacco symptoms (impossibility to control the mental ideas of smoking, somato-vegetative disturbances, high level of irritation, attention deficit). The character traits of heavy smoking adolescents were complicated (according DSM-IV) and included schizo-hysteric, schizo-epileptoid origin

Character traits were strongly associated with intensity of ideatory symptoms of TD and irritation level.

Conclusion:

Heavy smoking adolescents need special therapy including both personality and TD approaches - bio-feed-back, psychotherapy.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 28 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 21th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2013 , 28-E1756
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2013
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