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Richard A. Brown

Researcher at University of Texas at Austin

Publications -  307
Citations -  18169

Richard A. Brown is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Smoking cessation & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 287 publications receiving 16860 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard A. Brown include University of Dundee & Oregon Research Institute.

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Psychiatric disorders, familial factors, and cigarette smoking: II. Associations with progression to daily smoking.

TL;DR: In conclusion, externalizing disorders had the strongest associations, both with progression to daily smoking among adolescents who initiate smoking and with nicotine dependence among the daily smokers.
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Patterns of change in depressive symptoms during smoking cessation: who's at risk for relapse?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined patterns of change in depressive symptoms during smoking cessation treatment in 163 smokers with past major depressive disorder (MDD) and found substantial heterogeneity in patterns of depressive symptom during quitting and that patterns involving increased symptoms are associated with low abstinence rates.
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Motivational enhancement and coping skills training for cocaine abusers: effects on substance use outcomes

TL;DR: Motivational enhancement treatment is more beneficial for patients with lower initial motivation than for Patients with high initial motivation, and group coping-skills training reduced cocaine and alcohol use and reduced alcohol relapses, in contrast to results with lengthier individual CST.
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Nicotine fading and self‐monitoring for cigarette abstinence or controlled smoking

TL;DR: The results suggest that the study's goals were achieved and that the nonaversive combined procedure could be used to treat not only habitual smokers but also smokers with severe cardiovascular and respiratory problems, because it does not have some of the inherent limitations of the successful aversive smoking cessation procedures.
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Nonclinical panic attack history and smoking cessation: an initial examination.

TL;DR: Analysis of the association of nonclinical panic attacks among regular smokers with the duration of past quit attempts as well as the type and intensity of DSM-IV smoking withdrawal symptoms found smokers with a history of panic reported significantly shorter quit attempts compared to their nonpanic counterparts.