Mei-Chen Hu

TL;DR: There are more common than unique correlates of each smoking stage and across racial/ethnic groups and primary prevention and interventions addressing the factors tested could be uniform for most chronic smokers irrespective of dependence status and race/ethnicity.

TL;DR: PTSD severity reductions were more likely to be associated with substance use improvement, with minimal evidence of substance use symptom reduction improving PTSD symptoms, which support the self-medication model of coping with PTSD symptoms and an empirical basis for integrated interventions for improved substance use outcomes in patients with severe symptoms.

TL;DR: The characteristics of Poisson model and the related models that have been developed to handle overdispersion or zero-inflation (zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) and Poisson hurdle (PH) models) or both are reviewed.

TL;DR: The few identified racial/ethnic differences in predictors of smoking behavior suggest that universal prevention and intervention efforts could reach most adolescents regardless of race/ethnicity.

TL;DR: The predictive significance of the initial smoking experience and parental dependence highlight the potential importance of genetic factors in the etiology of nicotine dependence.