The Brief Addiction Science Information Source (BASIS)

ASHES, Vol. 15(1) - Pain in quitting: How smoking relates to pain sensitivity

This week, ASHES reviews a study by Joseph Ditre and colleagues that explored whether abstaining from smoking increases pain sensitivity. Read more →

ASHES, Vol.14(13) - Separation by motivation: Exploring why 12th-graders vape

Vaping is popular among adolescents, but has negative health consequences including increased chance of future smoking and substance use. While experimentation and flavoring seem to be the most popular reasons for vaping in this population, we still don’t know very much about adolescents’ reasons for vaping. This week, ASHES reviews a study by Rebecca Evans-Polce and colleagues that explored why adolescents vape. What was the research question? Among U.S. adolescents, what are common reasons for vaping? What did the researchers do? The researchers used data from Monitoring the Future, an annual cross-sectional health survey of U.S. 12th graders. The sample... Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 14(12) - Bad moods and anxious feelings: Factors influencing self-guided quit attempts

This week, as part of our Special Series on Self-Directed Recovery, ASHES covers a study by Kirsten Langdon and colleagues that investigated the influence of anxiety sensitivity and negative affect on people who are attempting to quit smoking on their own. Read more →

ASHES, Vol.14(11) - Reviewing the evidence: Can meditation reduce smoking?

This week, ASHES reviews a study that looks at how effective mindfulness meditation practices are at helping people reduce or quit tobacco. Read more →

ASHES, Vol. 14(10) - E-cigarettes, cigarettes, and dual use: Which behavior predicts marijuana use among high school students?

This week, ASHES reviews a study by Sunday Azagba that explores e-cigarette, cigarette, and marijuana use among Canadian high school students. Read more →

ASHES, Vol.14(9) - What’s in that vape? Sending health warning messages by text.

This week, ASHES reviews a study that evaluates how teenagers respond to e-cigarette harm warning messages sent by text. Read more →

ASHES, Vol.14(8) – Just scratching the surface: Potential psychiatric morbidities underlying tobacco dependence

This week, ASHES reviews a study that observes trends in a sample of tobacco users and non-tobacco users to determine if there is also a connection between tobacco usage and mental illnesses. Read more →

ASHES, Vol.14(7) - Perceptions about smoking consequences and their relation to cigarette cravings

This week, ASHES reviews a study which examined the relationship between cigarette cravings and perceptions of the negative consequences of smoking. Read more →

ASHES, Vol.14(6) - Invisibility within invisibility: Tobacco interventions for LGBTI communities

As part of our Special Series on Addiction and the LGBTQ Community, ASHES reviews a study that examines smoking interventions that have been tested with LGBTI communities. Read more →

ASHES, Vol.14(5) - Do people with mental health disorders want cigarettes more?

This week ASHES reviews a study that looked for differences in level of desire to smoke among individuals with and without mental health disorders, across a range of cigarette prices. Read more →