Focus Areas
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Driving nicotine dependence research
The Nicotine Research Program studies pharmacological, complementary and alternative approaches to help multiple groups of people stop using tobacco more easily and effectively.
The Nicotine Research Program at Mayo Clinic has ongoing research in a number of areas, including:
- Traditional pharmacotherapy combined with other nonpharmacological interventions for smoking cessation
- Complementary and alternative approaches
- Smokers with additional addictions
- Smokeless tobacco use
- Treating tobacco dependence in cancer patients
- Smoking cessation before, during and after surgery
- Smoking cessation for cancer patients prior to surgery to reduce surgical complications
- Ethnic, racial and sex differences in smoking cessation outcomes
- Genetic epidemiology and risk assessment program
- Smoke-free policy research
- Smoking cessation in overweight or weight-concerned smokers
- Electronic cigarettes