American Tobacco
Health Consequences of Smoking, Nicotine Addiction, A Report of the Surgeon General
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FOREWORD
This 20th Report of the Surgeon General on the health conse-
quences of tobacco use provides an additional important piece of
evidence concerning the serious health risks associated with using
tobacco.
The subject of this Report, nicotine addiction, was first mentioned
in the 1964 Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon
General, which referred to tobacco use as "habituating." In the
landmark 1979 Report of the Surgeon General, by which time
considerably more research had been conducted, smoking was called
"the prototypical substance-abuse dependenoy." Scientists in the
field of drug addiction now agree that nicotine, the principal
pharmacologic agent that is common to all forms of tobacco, is a
powerfully addictifig drug.
Recognizing tobacco use as an addiction is critical both for treating
the tobacco user and for understanding why people continue to use
tobacco despite the known.health risks. Nicotine is a psychoactive
drug with actions that reinforce the use of tobacco. Efforts to reduce
tobacco use in our society must address all the major influences that
encourage continued use, including social, psychological, and phar-
macologic factors.
After carefully examining the available evidence, this Report
concludes that:
a Cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting.
a Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction.
a The pharmacologic and behavioral processes that determine
tobacco addiction are similar to those that determine addiction
to drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
We must recognize both the potential for behavioral and pharma-
cologic treatment of the addicted tobacco user and the problems of
withdrawal. Tobacco use is a disorder which can be remedied
through medical attention; therefore, it should be approached by
health care providers just as other substance-use disorders are
approached: with knowledge, understanding, and persistence• Each
health care provider should use every available clinical opportunity
to encourage or assist smokers to quit and to help former smokers to
maintain abstinence.
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To maintain momentum toward a smoke-free society, we also must
take steps to prevent young people from beginning to smoke. First,
we must insure that every child in every school in this country is
educated as to the health risks and the addictive nature of tobacco
use. Most jurisdictions require that school curricula include preven-
tion of drug use; therefore, education on the prevention of tobacco
use should be included in this effort. Second, warning labels
regarding the addictive nature of tobacco use should be required for
all tobacco packages and advertisements. Young people in particular
may not be aware of the risk of tobacco addiction. Finally, parents
and other role models should discourage smoking and other forms of
tobacco use among young people. Parents who quit set an example
for their children.
Smoking continues to be the chief preventable cause of premature
death in this country. Nicotine has addictive properties which help
to sustain widespread tobacco use. It is gratifying to see the decline
in reported smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption in the
United States during the past 25 years. However, we cannot expect
to see a sustained decline in rates of smoking-related cancers,
cardiovascular disease, and pulmonary disease without sustained
public health efforts against tobacco use.
The Public Health Service is committed to preventing tobacco use
among youth and to promoting cessation among existing smokers.
We hope that this Report will assist the health care community,
voluntary health agencies, and our Nation's schools in working with
us to reduce tobacco use in our society.
Robert E. Wlndom, M.D.
Assistant Secretary for Health
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PREFACE
This Report of the Surgeon General is the U.S. Public Health
Service's 20th Report on the health consequences of tobacco use and
the 7th issued during my tenure as Surgeon General. Eighteen
Reports have been released previously as part of the health
consequences of smoking series; a rePOrt on the health consequences
of using smokeless tobacco was released in 1986.
Previous Reports have reviewed the medical and scientific evi-
dence establishing the health effects of cigarette smoking and other
forms of tobacco use. Tens of thousands of studies have documented
that smoking causes lung cancer, other cancers, chronic obstructive
lung disease, heart disease, complications of pregnancy, and several
other adverse health effects.
Epidemiologic studies have shown that cigarette smoking is
responsible for more than 300,000 deaths each year in the United
States. As I stated in the Preface to the 1982 Surgeon General's
Report, smoking is the chief avoidable cause of death in our society.
From 1964 through 1979, eacl~ Surgeon General's Report ad-
dressed the major health effects of smoking. The 1979 Report
provided the most comprehensive review of these effects. Following
the 1979 Report, each subsequent Report has focused On specific
populations (women in 1980, workers in 1985.), specific diseases
(cancer in 1982, cardiovascular disease in 1983, chronic obstructive
lung disease in 1984), and specific topics (low-tar, low-nicotine
cigarettes in 1981, involuntary smoking in 1986).
This Report explores in great detail another specific topic: nicotine
addiction, Careful examination of the data makes it clear that
cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting. An extensive
body of research has shown that nicotine is the drug in tobacco that
causes addiction. Moreover, the processes that determine tobacco
addiction are similar to those that determine addiction to drugs such
as heroin and cocaine.
Actions of Nicotine
All tobacco products contain substantial amounts of nicotine.
Nicotine is absorbed readily from tobacco smoke in the lungs and
from smokeless tobacco in the mouth or nose. Levels of nicotine in
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the blood are similar in magnitude in people using different forms of
tobacco. Once in the blood stream, nicotine is rapidly distributed
throughout the body.
Nicotine is a powerful pharmacologic agent that acts in a variety
of ways at different sites in the body. After reaching the blood
stream, nicotine enters the brain, interacts with specific receptors in
brain tissue, and initiates metabolic and electrical activity in the
brain. In addition, nicotine causes skeletal muscle relaxation and
has cardiovascular and endocrine (i.e., hormonal) effects.
Human and animal studies have shown that nicotine is the agent
in tobacco that leads to addiction. The diversity and strength of its
actions on the body are consistent with its role in causing addiction.
Tobacco Use as an Addiction
Standard definitions of drug addiction have been adopted by
various organizations including the World Health Organization and
the American Psychiatric As,~ociation. Although these definitions
are not identical, they have in common several criteria for establish-
ing a drug as addicting.
The central element among all forms of drug addiction is that the
user's behavior is largely controlled by a psychoactive substance (i.e.,
a substance that produces transient alterations in mood that are
primarily mediated by effects in the brain). There is often compul-
sive use of the drug despite damage to the individual or to society,
and drug-seeking behavior can take precedence over other important
priorities. The drug is "reinforcing" - that is, the pharmacologic
activity of the drug is sufficiently rewarding to maintain self-
administration. "Tolerance" is another aspect of drug addiction
whereby a given dose of a drug produces less effect or increasing
doses are required to achieve a specified intensity of response.
Physical dependence on the drug can also occur, and is characterized
by a withdrawal syndrome that usually accompanies drug absti-
nence. After cessation of drug use, there is a strong tendency to
relapse.
This Report demonstrates in detail that tobacco use and nicotine
in particular meet all these criteria. The evidence for these findings
is derived from animal studies as well as human observations.
Leading national and international organizations, including the
World Health Organization and the American Psychiatric Associa-
tion, have recognized chronic tobacco use as a drug addiction.
Some people may have difficulty in accepting the notion that
tobacco is addicting because it is a legal product. The word
"addiction" is strongly associated with illegal drugs such as cocaine
and heroin. However, as this Report shows, the processes that
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determine tobacco addiction are similar to those that determine
addiction to other drugs, including illegal drugs.
In addition, some smokers may not believe that tobacco is
addicting because of a reluctance to admit that one's behavior is
largely controlled by a drug. On the other hand, most smokers admit
that they would like to quit but have been unable to do so. Smokers
who have repeatedly failed in their attempts to quit probably realize
that smoking is more than just a simple habit.
Many smokers have quit on their own ("spontaneous remission")
and some smokers smoke only occasionally. However, spontaneous
remission and occasional use also occur with the illicit drugs of
addiction, and in no way disqualify a drug from being classified as
addicting. Most narcotics users, for example, never progress beyond
occasional use, and of those who do, approximately 30 percent
spontaneously remit. Moreover, it seems plausible that spontaneous
remitters are largely those who have either learned to deliver
effective treatments to themselves or for whom environmental
circumstances have fortuitously changed in such a way as to support
drug cessation and abstinence.
Treatment
Like other addictions, tobacco use can be effectively treated. A
wide variety of behavioral interventions have been used for many
years, including aversion procedures (e.g., satiation, rapid smokingl,
relaxation training, coping skills training, stimulus control, and
nicotine fading. In recognition of the important role that nicotine
plays in r~aintaining tobacco use, nicotine replacement therapy is
now available. Nicotine polacrilex gum has been shown in controlled
trials to relieve withdrawal symptoms. In addition, some (but not all/
studies have shown that nicotine gum, as an adjunct to behavioral
interventions, increases smoking abstinence rates. ]n recent years,
multicomponent interventions have been applied successfully to the
treatment of tobacco addiction.
Public Health Strategies
The conclusion that cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are
addicting has important implications for health professionals, educa-
tors, and policy-makers. In treating the tobacco user, health profes-
sionals must address the tenacious hold that nicotine has on the
body. More effective interventions must be developed to counteract
both the psychological and pharmacologic addictions that accompa-
ny tobacco use. More research is needed to evaluate how best to treat
those with the strongest dependence on the drug. Treatment of
tobacco addiction should be more widely available and should be

considered at least as favorably by third-party payor8 as treatment o?
alcoholism and illicit drug addiction.
The challenge to health professionals is complicated by the array
of new nicotine delivery systems that are being developed and
introduced in the marketplace. Some of these products are produced
by tobacco manufacturers; others may be marketed as devices to aid
in smoking cessation. These new products may be more toxic and
more addicting than the products currently on the market. New
nicotine delivery systems should be evaluated for their toxic and
addictive effects; products intended for use in smoking cessation also
should be evaluated for efficacy.
Public information campaigns should be developed to increase
community'awareness of the addictive nature of tobacco use. A
health Warning on addiction should be rotated with the other
warnings now required on cigarette and smokeless tobacco packages
and advertisements. Prevention of tobacco use should be included
along with prevention of illicit drug use in comprehensive school
health education curricula. Many children and adolescents who are
experimenting with cigarettes and other forms of tobacco state that
they do not intend to use tobacco in later years. They are unaware of,
or underestimate, the strength of tobacco addiction. Because this
addiction almost always begins during childhood or adolescence,
children need to be warned as early as possible, and repeatedly
warned through their teenage years, about the dangers of exposing
themselves to nicotine.
This Report shows conclusively that cigarettes and other forms of
tobacco are addicting in the same sense as are drugs such as heroin
and cocaine. Most adults view illegal drugs with scorn and express
disapproval (if not outrage) at their sale and use. This Nation has
mobilized enormous resources to wage a war on drugs -- illicit drugs.
We should also give priority to the one addiction that is killing more
than 300,000 Americans each year.
We as citizens, in concert with our elected officials, civic leaders,
and public health officers, should establish appropriate public
policies for how tobacco products are sold and distributed in our
society. With the evidence that tobacco is addicting, is it appropriate
for tobacco products to be sold through vending machines, which are
easily accessible to children? Is it appropriate for free samples of
tobacco products to be sent through the mail or distributed on public
property, where verification of age is difficult if not impossible?
Should the sale of tobacco be treated less seriously than the sale of
alcoholic beverages, for which a specific license is required (and
revoked for repeated sales to minors)?
In the face of overwhelming evidence that tobacco is addicting,
policy-makers should address these questions without delay. To
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achieve our goal of a smoke-free society, we must give this problem
the serious attention it deserves.
C. Everett Keep, M.D., So.D.
Surgeon General
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This Report was prepared by the Department of Health and
Human Services under the general editorship of the Office on
Smoking and Health, Ronald M. Davis, M.D., Director. The Manag-
ing Editors were Thomas E. Novotny, M.D., and William R. Lynn,
Office on Smoking and Health.
Scientific editors were Neal L. Benowitz, M.D,, Professor "of
Medicine, Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimen-
tal Therapeutics, San Francisco General Hospital, University of
California, San Francisco, California; Nell E. Grunborg, Ph.D.,
Department of Medical Psychology, Uniformed Services University
of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; Jack E. Henningfield,
Ph.D., Chief, Biology of Dependence and Abuse Potential Assessment,
Laboratory, Addiction Research Center, National Institute on Drug
Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland; and Harry A. Lando, Ph.D., Professor,
Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
The following individuals prepared draft chapters or portions of
the Report.
David B. Abrams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and
Human Behavior, Brown University Program in Medicine, The
Miriam Hospital, Center for Health Promotion, Providence, Rhode
Island
Timothy B. Baker, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Neal L. Benowi~z, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of
Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, San Fran-
cisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco,
California
Thomas H, Brandon, M.S., Department of Psychology, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Richard F. Catalano, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Center for
Social Welfare Research, School of Social Work, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
Larry D. Chait, Ph.D., Research Associate (Assistant Professor),
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Paul B.S. Clarke, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Thera-
peutics, MeGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Richard R. Clayton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Allan C. Collins, Ph.D., Institute for Behavioral Genetics, School of
Pharmacy, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Thomas M. Cooper, D.D.S., Professor, Department of Community
Dentistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Lori A. Crane, M.P,H., Division of Cancer Control, Jonsson Compre-
hensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles,
California
D. Layten Davis, Ph.D., Director, Tobacco and Health Research
Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Ronald M. Davis, M.D., Director, Office on Smoking and Health,
Center for Health Promotion and Education, Centers for Disease
Control, Reckville, Maryland
Edward F. Domino, M.D., Prol'essor, Department of Pharmacology,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
John L. Egle, Jr., Ph.D., Department of Pharmaoclogy/Toxioclogy,
Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond, Virginia
Joan Ershler, Ph.D., Research Associate, Mr. Sinai Medical Center,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Raymond Fleming, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Wiscon- sin-Milwaukee, Mt. Sinai
Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Kathleen A. Fletcher, Ph.D., M.P.H., Consultant, The University of
Texas ttealth Science Center, Houston, Texas
Paul J. Fudala, Ph.D., Addiction Research Center, National Institute
on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland
C. Gary Gairola, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Tobacco and Health
Research Institute, Lexington, Kentucky
David Gilbert, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, Illinois
Lewayne D. Gilchrist, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, School of
Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Donna M. Goldberg, M.A., Annapolis, Maryland
Steven R. Goldberg, Ph.D., Preclinical Pharmacology Research
Branch, Addiction Research Center, National Institute on Drug
Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland
John Grabowski, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston,
Texas
Dorothy K. Hatsukami, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
J. David Hawkins, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Social Welfare
Research, School of Social Work, University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington
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Jack E. Henningfield, Ph.D., Chief, Biology of Dependence and
Abuse Potential Assessment Laboratory, Addiction Research Cen-
ter, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland.
Ronald I. Herning, Ph.D., Addiction Research Center, National
Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland
Matthew Owen Howard, M.S., M.S.W., Research Assistant, Center
for Social Welfare Research, School of Social Work, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
John R. Hughes, M.D., Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and
Family Practice, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Edgar T. Iwamoto, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, College of
Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
Murray E.. Jarvik, M.D., Ph.D., The Neuropsychiatric Institute and
Hospital, School of Medicine, University of California, Los An-
geles, Veterans' Administration Medical Center, Brentwood Divi-
sion, Los Angeles, California
Robert C. Klesges, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Center for Applied
Psychological Research, Department of Psychology, Memphis
State University, Memphis, Tennessee
Lynn T. Kozlowski, Ph.D., Head, Behavioral Research on Tobacco
Use, Addiction Research Foundation, Professor of Psychology and
of Preventive Medicine and Biestatistics, University of Toronto,
Toront:o, ()ntario, Canada
Howard Levanthal, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of
Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Edythe D. London, Ph.D., Chief, Neuropharmacology Laboratory,
Addiction Research Center, National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Baltimore, Maryland
Scott E. Lukas, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Pharmacol-
ogy), Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Alcohol
and Drug Abuse Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont,
Massachusetts
Alfred C. Marcus, Ph.D., Associate Director, Division of Cancer
Control, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of
California, Los Angeles, California
Andrew W. Meyers, Ph.D., Professor, Center for Applied Psychologi-
cal Research, Department of Psychology, Memphis State Universi-
ty, Memphis, Tennessee
Thomas E. Novotny, M.D., Medical Epidemiologist, Office on Smok-
ing and Health, Center for Health Promotion and Education,
Centers for Disease Control, Rockvine, Maryland
C. Tracy Orleans, Research Associate, Health Services Research
Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, President,
Smoking and Health Consultants, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey
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John P. Pierce, M.Sc., Ph.D, Chief, Edidemiology Branch, Office on
Smoking and Health, Center for Health Promotion and Education,
Centers for Disease Control, Rockville, Maryland
Ovide F. Pomerleau, Ph.D., Behavioral Medicine Program, Universi-
ty of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Amelie G. Ramirez, M.P.H., Faculty Associate, The University of
Texas Health Science Center, Assistant Professor, Baylor College
of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Jed E. Rose, Ph.D., Veterans' Administration Medical Center,
Wadsworth and Brentwood Divisions, Los Angeles, California
J.A. Rosecrans, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Medical Col-
lege of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond,
Virginia
Mary Anne Salmon, Ph.D., Research Associate, Health Services
Research Center~ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina
Nina G. Schneider, Ph.D., Associate Research Psychologist, Depart-
ment of Psychiatry and Biobehaviorai Sciences, UCLA School of
Medicine, Research Psychologist, Psychopharmacology Unit, Vet-
erans' Administration Medical Center, Brentwood Division, Los
Angeles, California
V.J. Schoenbach, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Epide-
miology, Research Associate, Health Services Research Center,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Saul Shiffman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psycholo-
gy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Victor J. Strecher, Ph.D., Research Associate, Health Services
Research Center, Assistant Professor, Department of Health
Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina
David M. Warburton, Professor, Department of Psychology, Univer-
sity of Reading, Whiteknighte, Reading, United Kingdom
Elizabeth A. Wells, Ph.D., Past-Docteral Fellow, Center for Social
Welfare Research, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Thomas Ashby Wills, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Depart-
ment of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Ferkauf Graduate
School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, New York
Phillip P. Woodson, Dr.sc.nat., Addiction Research Center, National
Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland
The editors acknowledge with gratitude the following distin-
guished scientists, physicians, and others who lent their support in
the development of this Report by coordinating manuscript prepara-
tion, contributing critical reviews of the manuscript, or assisting in
other ways.
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Leo G. Abood, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, University of
Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
John S. Baer, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
Timothy B. Baker, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Claudia R. Baquet, M.D., M.P.H., Chief, Special Populations Studies
Branch, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National
Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
Glen Bennett, M.P.H., Field Studies Advisor, Office of Prevention,
Education, and Control, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Insti-
tute, Bethesda, Maryland
George E. Bigelow, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Behavioral Biology,
Director, Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit, Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins Universi-
ty School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Clarice Brown, M.S., Data Analyst, Office of Prevention, Education,
and Control, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda,
Maryland
David M. Burns, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California
Medical Center, San Diego, California
Donald R. Cherek, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, Mental Sciences Institute, The University of Texas
Health Science Center, Houston, Texas
Paul B.S. Clarke, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Thera-
peutics, McGin University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Re Nemeth-Coslett, Ph.D., Psychologist, Prevention Research
Branch, Division of Clinical Research, National Institute on Drug
Abuse, Rockville, Maryland
Thomas J. Crowley, M.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center, Denver, Colorado
Joseph W. Cullen, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Division of Cancer
Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda,
Maryland
K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., M.P.H., Research Scientist, Depart-
ment of Cancer Control and Epidemiology, Roswell Park Memorial
Institute, Buffalo, New York
Susan Curry, Ph.D., Center for .Health Studies, Group Health
Cooperative of Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington
Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D., Director, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Sir Richard Doll, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Manning Feinleib, M.D., Dr.P.H., Director, National Center for
Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, Hyattsville, Mary-
land
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Richard R. Frecker, M.D., Ph.D., Head, Biomedical Research,
Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Research Foundation,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
K.H. Ginzel, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology and
Interdisciplinary Toxicology, University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas
Russell E. Glasgow~ Ph.D., Oregon Research Institute, Eugene,
Oregon
Nancy P. Gordon, Sc.D., Behavioral Scientist, Division of Research,
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California
Roland R. Grlffiths, The Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Ellen R. Gritz, Ph.D., Director, Division of Cancer Control, Joasson
Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los
Angeles, California
Sharon M. Hall, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Center
for Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San
Francisco, California
Louis S. Harris, Ph.D., Senior Science Advisor, National Institute on
Drug Abuse, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administra-
tion, Rockville, Maryland
Ronald I. Herning, Ph.D., Addiction Research Center, National
Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland
Dietrich Hoffmann, Ph.D., Associate Director, Naylor Dana Insti-
tute, Valhalla, New York
Leo Hollister, M.D., Medical Director, Harris County Psychiatry
Center, Houston, Texas
Enid Hunkeler, Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Medical
Care Program, Oakland, California
Peyton Jacob III, Ph.D., Division of Clinical Pharmacology, San
Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francis-
co, California
Jerome Jaffas, M.D., Director, Addiction Research Center, National
Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MaiTland
Murray E. Jarvik, M.D., Ph.D., The Neuropsychatric Institute and
Hospital School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles,
and Veterans' Administration Medical Center West Los Angeles,
Brentwood Division, Los Angeles, California
Martin Jarvis, M.Phil., Senior Lecturer, Addiction Research Unit,
Institute of Psychiatry, London, England
Chris-Ellen Johanson, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker
School of Medicine, University of Chicago Drug Abuse Research
Center, Chicago, Illinois
Reese T. Jones, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of
California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California
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Ken J. Kellar, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Georgetown
University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
Lynn T. Kozlowski, Ph.D., Head, Behavioral Research on Tobacco
Use, Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Richard J. Lamb, Ph.D., Addiction Research Center, National
Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland
Charles L. LeMaistre, M.D., President, University of Texas Systems
Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Claude Lenfant, M.D., Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Howard Leventhal, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Edward Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Oregon Research Institute, Eugene,
•Oregon
Donald Inn Macdonald, M.D., Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse,
and Mental Health Administration, RockviUe, Maryland
G. Alan Marlatt, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
William R. Martin, M.D., Chairman, Department of Pharmacology,
University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
James O, Mason, M.D., Dr.P.H., Director, Centers for Disease
Control, Atlanta, Georgia
J. Michael McGinnis, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary (Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion), Washington, D.C,
A. Thomas MeLelian, Ph.D., Substance Abuse Treatment Research
Center, Philadelphia Veterans' Administration Medical Center
and The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nancy K. Mello, Ph.D, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center,
McClean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts
Gregory J. Morasco, Ph.D., M.P.H., Smoking Education Program
Coordinator, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda,
Maryland
Joseph P. Mulholland, Ph.D., Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade
Commission, Washington, D.C.
Herbert W. Niekens, M.D., M.A., Director, Office of Minority Health,
Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.
Richard Pete, M.A., M.Sc., Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer
Studies Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Radcliffe
Infirmary, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Roy W. Pickens, Ph.D., Director, Division of Clinical Research,
National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville, Maryland
John P. Pierce, M.Sc., Ph.D., Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Office on
Smoking and Health, Center for Health Promotion and Education,
Centers for Disease Control, Rockville, Maryland
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John M. Pinney, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of
Smoking Behavior and Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Govern-
ment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Michael R. Polen, M.A., Research Associate, Division of Research,
Kaiser-Permanento Medical Group, Oakland, California
William Pollin, M.D., Former Director, National Institute on Drug
Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland
David C. Ramsey, M.P.H., Health Educator, Division of Health
Education, Center for Health Promotion and Education, Centers
for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia
Everett R. Rhoades, M.D., Assistant Surgeon General and Director,
Indian Health Service, Rockville, Maryland
M.A.H. Russell, F.R.C.P., Addiction Research Unit, Institute of
Psychiatry, University ofLondon, London, England
Charles R. Schuster, Ph.D., Director, National Institute on Drug
Abuse, Rockville, Maryland
Burt Sharpe, M.D., Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of
Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Donald R. Shopland, Public Health Advisor, Smoking, Tobacco, and
Cancer Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
Jerome E. Singer, Ph.D., Medical Psychology, Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
Maxine L. Stitzer, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Behavioral Biology,
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Behavioral Pharmacology
Research, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
David N. Sundwall, M.D., Assistant Surgeon General and Adminis-
trator, Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville,
Maryland
Dennis D. Tolsma, M.P.H., Director, Center for Health Promotion
and Education, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia
Frederick L. Trowbridge, M.D., Director, Division of Nutrition,
Center for Health Promotion and Education, Centers for Disease
Control, Atlanta, Georgia
Frank J. Voccl, Jr., Ph.D., Acting Chief, Drug Abuse Staff, Center for
Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration,
Washington, DC
Ronald W. Wilson, M.A., National Center for Health Statistics,
Centers for Disease Control, Hyattsville, Maryland
Roy A. Wise, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Concordia Universi-
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Faye Wright, Center for Applied Psychological Research, Depart-
ment of Psychology, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennes-
see
Ernst L. Wynder, M.D., President, American Health Foundation,
New York, New York
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Bethesda, Maryland
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword ................................................................. i
Preface .................................................................. ill
Acknowledgments .......... : ......................................... ix
I. Introduction, Overview, Summary, and
' Conclusions ..................................................... 1
II. Nicotine: Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, and Phar-
maeodynamies ................................................. 21
III. Nicotine: Sites and Mechanisms of Actions ........... 75
IV. Tobacco Use and Drug Dependence ................... 145
V. Tobacco Use Compared to Other Drug
Dependencies ............................................. :... 241
VI. Effects of Nicotine That May Promote Tobacco
Use ......................................................... :.,.. 375
VII. Treatment of Tobacco Dependence ..................... 459
Appendix A: Trends in Tobacco Use in the United
States ............................................... 561
Appendix B: Toxicity of Nicotine ............................. 589
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION, OVERVIEW,
SUMMARY, AND CONCLUSIONS

CONTENTS
Introduction
Development and Organization of this Report
Overview
Major Conclusions
Brief History Relevant to this Report
Chapter Conclusions
Chapter II: Nicotine: Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism,
and Pharmacodynamics
Chapter hi: Nicotine: Sites and Mechanisms of Ac-
tions
Chapter IV: Tobacco Use as Drug Dependence
Chapter V: Tobacco Use Compared to Other Drug
Dependencies
Chapter VI: Effects of Nicotine That May.Promote
Tobacco Use
Chapter VII: Treatment of Tobacco Dependence
Appendix A! Trends in Tobacco Use in the United
States
Appendix B: Toxicity of Nicotine
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Introduction
Development and Organization of this Report
This Report was developed by the Office on Smoking and Health,
Center for Health Promotion and Education, Centers for Disease
Control, Public Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services as part of the Department's responsibility, under
Public Law 91-222, to report new and current information on
smoking and health to the United States Congress.
The scientific content of this Report reflects the contributions of
more than 50 scientists representing a wide variety of relevant
disciplines. These experts, known for their understanding of and
work in specific content areas, prepared manuscripts for incorpora-
tion into this Report. The Office on Smoking and Health and its
consultants edited and consolidated the individual manuscripts into
appropriate chapters. These draft chapters were subjected to an
extensive outside peer review (see Acknowledgments for individuals
and their affiliations) whereby each chapter was reviewed by up to
11 experts. Based on the comments of these reviewers, the chapters
were revised and the entire volume was assembled. This revised
edition of the Report was resubjected to review by 20 distinguished
scientists inside and outside the Federal Government, both in this
country and abroad. Parallel to this review, the entire Report was
also submitted for review to 12 institutes and agencies within the
U.S. Public Health Service. The comments from the senior scientific
reviewers and the agencies were used to prepare the fi~al volume of
this Report.
This Report contains a Foreword by the Assistant Secretary for
Health, a Preface by the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health
Service, and the following chapters and appendices:
Chapter ]. Introduction, Overview, Summary, and Conclusions
Chapter lI. Nicotine: Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, and Phar-
macodynamics
Chapter IIL Nicotine: Sites and Mechanisms of Actions
Chapter IV. Tobacco Use as Drug Dependence
Chapter V. Tobacco Use Compared to Other Drug Dependencies
Chapter VI. Effects of Nicotine That May Promote Tobacco Use
Chapter VII. Treatment of Tobacco Dependence
Appendix A. Trends in Tobacco Use in the United States
Appendix B. Toxicity of Nicotine
Overview
This Report of the Surgeon General on tobacco and health focuses
on the pharmacologic basis of tobacco addiction. Previous Surgeon
General's Reports have reviewed the medical and scientific evidence
establishing that cigarette smoking and tobacco use in other forms

are deleterious to health. Several reports emphasized particular
diseases (e.g., 1982 Report on cancer (US DHHS 1982), 1983 Report
on caMiovascular disease (US DHHS 1983a), 1984 Report on chronic
obstructive lung disease (US DHHS 1984a)); some reports concentrat-
ed on specific populations (e.g., 1980 Report on women (US DHHS
1980)); and some reports dealt with particular aspects of smoking
(e.g., 1986 Report on involuntary smoking (US DHHS 1986a)). These
reports have been important because so many individuals engage in
a behavior that causes morbidity and premature mortality.
The present Report addresses a central issue of the tobacco and
health problem: Why do people smoke and in other ways consume
tobacco products? Specifically, this Report reviews the pharmacolog-
ic basis of the disease- producing and life-threatening behavior of
tobacco use. Psychological and social factors are also important
influences on tobacco use, but a detailed review of these factors is
beyond the scope of this Report. Reviews of this literature include
previous reports of the Surgeon General (US DHEW 1979; US DHHS
1980, 1982, 1983a, 1984a), research monographs from the National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Jarvik et hi. 1977; Krasnegor 1978,
1979a,b,c; Grabowski and Bell 1983), and articles by scientists who
study tobacco use and nicotine (Russell 1971, 1976; Gritz 1980;
Henningfleld 1984).
This Report reviews evidence that tobacco use is addicting and
that nicotine is the active pharmacologic agent of tobacco that causes
this addictive behavior. Previous Surgeon General's Report~ have
focused on evidence that cigarette smoking and tobacco use are
health hazards. Now that those relationships are well-documented
and well-known, this Report addresses addictive properties of
cigarette smoking and tobacco use in order to help develop more
effective prevention and cessation programs.
This Report topic is particularly timely because of recent advances
and extensive data gathered in the 1980s relevant to the issue of
tobacco addiction. Since the early 1900s scientific literature and
historical anecdotes have provided evidence that tobacco use is a
form of drug addiction. In the 1970s, however, research efforts
increased considerably on various aspects of tobacco addiction,
including nicotine pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, self-ad-
ministration, withdrawal, dependence, and tolerance. In addition,
advances in the neurosciences have begun to reveal effects of
nicotine in the brain and body that may help to explain why tobacco
use is reinforcing and difficult to give up. These issues are addressed
in this Report. Finally, recent developments in the use of nicotine
replacement in smoking cessation emphasize the importance of
pharmacologic aspects of cigarette smoking.
Concepts of drug addiction or drug dependence are discussed in
detail in Chapters IV and V. It is useful to begin this Report with a
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brief summary of main points about drug dependence that provide
the foundation for the findings of the Report.
The terms "drug addiction" and ~'drug dependence" are scientifi-
cally equivalent: both terms refer to the behavior of repetitively
ingesting mood-altering substances by individuals. The term '~drug
dependence" has been increasingly adopted in the scientific and
medical literature as a more technical term, whereas the term "drug
addiction" continues to be used by NIDA and other organizations
when it is important to provide information at a more general level.
Throughout this Report, both terms are used and they are used
synonymously.
The main conclusions of the Report are based upon concepts of
drug dependence that have been developed by expert committees of
the World Health Organization, as well as in publications of NIDA
and the American Psychiatric Association. These concepts were used
to develop a set of criteria to determine whether tobacco-delivered
nicotine is addicting. The criteria for drug dependence include
primary and additional indices and are summarized below.
CRITERIA FOR DRUG DEPENDENCE
Primary Criteria
• Highly controlled or compulsive use
• Psychoactive effects
• Drug-reinforced behavior
Additional Criteria
• Addictive behavior often involves:
-stereotypic patterns of use
-use despite harmful effects
-relapse following abstinence
.recurrent drug cravings
• Dependence-producing drugs often produce: -tolerance
-physical dependance
-pleasant (euphoriant) effects
The primary criteria listed above are sufficient to define drug
dependence. Highly controlled or compulsive use indicates that drug-
seeking and drug-taking behavior is driven by strong, often irresisti-
ble urges. It can persist despite a desire to quit or even repeated
attempts to quit. Such behavior is also referred to as "habitual"
behavior. To distinguish drug dependence from habitual behaviors
not involving drugs, it must be demonstrated that a drug with

psychoactive (mood-altering) effects in the brain enters the blood
stream. Furthermore, drug dependence is defined by the occurrence
of drug-motivated behavior; therefore, the psychoactive chemical
must be capable of functioning as a reinforcer that can directly
strengthen behavior leading to further drug ingestiom
Additional criteria are often used to help characterize drug
dependence. Several are associated with the drug-taking behavior
itself: (1) the behavior may develop into regular temporal and
physical patterns of use (repetitive and stereotypic); (2) drug use may
persist despite adverse physical, psychological, or social conse-
quences; (3) quitting episodes are often followed by resumption of
drug use (relapse); (4) urges (cravings) to use the drug may be
recurrent and persistent, especially; during drug abstinence. Similar-
ly, several common effects of dependence-producing drugs can
strengthen their control over behavior and increase the likelihood of
harm by contributing to the regularity and overall level of drug
intake: (l/ diminished responsiveness (tolerance) to the effects of e
drug occurs, and may be accompanied by increased intake over time;
(2) abstinence-associated withdrawal reactions (due to physical
dependence) can motivate further drug intake; (3) effects that are
considered pleasant (euphoriant) to the drug user can be provided by
the drug itself. Dependence-producing drugs can also produce effects
that individuals find useful. For example, many addicting drugs
have therapeutic uses in medical treatments of various disorders.
Most medically approved drugs that are addicting, however, are
generally only available by prescription. Effects era drug considered
by the individual to be useful can promote initiation of drug use,
strengthen the addiction, and contribute to relapse following cessa-
tion of use.
Tobacco and nicotine are considered in the Report in light of the
above criteria. In brief, the organization of the Report is as follows:
review of evidence that tobacco use is accompanied by orderly
patterns of uptake of nicotine in the body and brain resulting in the
development of tolerance (Chapter II); review of how effects of
nicotine in the brain and the rest of the body are chemically
mediated (Chapter III); review of the evidence that tobacco is
addicting and that nicotine is an addicting drug (Chapter IV);
comparison of tobacco use with other addictions and of nicotine with
other addicting drugs (Chapter V); review of possible effects of
nicotine that may promote the use of tobacco and present impedi-
ments to quitting smoking (Chapter VI); review of strategies for
helping people to achieve and maintain tobacco abstinence (Chapter
VII). In addition, appendices are included that summarize informa-
tion regarding trends in tobacco use (Appendix A) and information
regarding the toxicity of nicotine itself (Appendix B). A summary of
the main findings of the Report follows.
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Major Conclusions
1. Cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting.
2. Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction.
3. The pharmacologic and behavioral processes that
determine tobacco addiction are similar to those that
determine addiction to drugs such as heroin and
cocaine.
Brief History Relevant to this Report
Tobacco products have been used for centuries. The tobacco plant
was native to the New World. The oldest cited evidence of tobacco
use apl~oars on a Mayan stone carving dated from 600 to 900 A.D.
There are reports of tobacco smoking in Christopher Columbus'
diary in 1492; reports of tobacco smoking appear in the logs of other
European explorers of the New World in the 16th contury, Since the
colonial period, tobacco has been an integral part of the American
economy (Robert 1949).
Tobacco use permeated the Now World and quickly spread
throughout the rest of the world during the 16th and 17th centuries.
As use of tobacco products spread, so did controversy over the effects
of these products. Throughout history, while some persons extolled
the virtues of tobacco (including numerous alleged medicinal uses),
others condemned its use. George Washington is attributed with
exhorting the home front during the Revolutionary. War, "If you
can't send money, send tobacco." In contrast, Dr. Benjamin Rush
condemned tobacco use in his 1798 book Essays. The controversy
continued into the 19th century with no convincing scientific or
medical evidence to support either position (Robert 1949).
In 1856-57 the British medical journal Lancet published opinions
of 50 physicians on tobacco use. Many opponents attributed in-
creased crime, nervous paralysis, loss of intellectual abilities, and
visual impairment to tobacco use-all of these claims lacked convinc-
ing evidence. In restating the main arguments of the tobacco
proponents, the Lancet editors wrote that tobacco use "...must have
some good or at least pleasurable effects; that, if its evil effects were
so dreadful as stated the human race would have ceased to exist"
(Lancet 1857).
While the health-promoting and health-damaglng effects of tobac-
co products were being debated throughout the 17th and 18th
centuries, scientists were trying to determine the chief active
ingredient in tobacco, In the early 1800s the oily essence of tobacco
was discovered by Cerioli and by Vauquelin. This active substance
was named "Nicotianine," after Jean Nicot, who sent tobacco seeds
from Portugal to the French court at the end of the 16th century. In
1828, Posselt and Reimann at the University of Heide]berg isolated
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the pure form of Nicotianine and renamed it "Nikotin." The
chemical's empirical formula, C~oH~4N~, was determined in the
1840s, and "nicotine" was synthesized in the 1890s (Robert 1949).
Since the late 1800s, research on the pharmacologic actions of
nicotine has contributed substantially to basic information about the
nervous system (Kharkevich 1980; Voile 1980). The classic work by
Langley and Dickinson (1889) on nicotine's effects in autonomic
ganglia led to the postulates that chemicals transmit information
between neurons and that there are receptors on cells that respond
functionally to stimulation by specific chemicals. As early as the
1920s and 1930s, some investigators were concluding that nicotine
was responsible for the compulsive use of tobacco products (Arm-
strong-Jones 1927; Dorsey 1936; Lewin 1931). Johnston (1942)
concluded that, "smoking tobacco is essentially a means of adminis-
tering nicotine, just as smoking opium is a means of administering
morphine."
Throughout the 20th century, research has continued to investi-
gate the role of nicotine in tobacco use. The 1964 Report of the
Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health (US
PHS 1964) held that'. "The habitual use of tobacco is related
primarily to psychological and social drives, reinforced and perpetu-
ated by the pharmacologic actions of nicotine on the central nervous
system. Nicotine-free tobacco or other plant materials do not satisfy
the needs of those who acquire the tobacco habit.!' The 1964 Report,
relying upon a distinction (that is no longer made) between
"habituating" and "addicting" drugs, asserted that tobacco was
habituating and not addicting. The distinction in 1964 between
habituating drugs (including cocaine and amphetamines) and addict-
ing drugs (including opiates and barbiturates) was based on: (1)
whether the drug produced clear physical dependence; (2) whether
damage was mainly to the individual user (habituating drugs) or to
society (addicting drugs); and (3) the strength of the habitual
behavior that developed. There was no question at the time of the
1964 Report that nicotine was the critical pharmacologic agent for
tobacco use, but its role was then considered to be more similar to
cocaine and amphetamines than to opiates and barbiturates. Later
in 1964 the World Health Organization dropped this semantic
distinction between habituating and addicting drugs because it was
recognized that habitual use could be as strongly developed for
cocaine as for morphine~, that social damage generally accompanied
personal damage, and that behavioral characteristics of drug use
could be similar for the so-called habituating and addicting drugs. In
an effort to shift the focus to dependent patterns of behavior and
away from moral and social issues associated with the term
addiction, the term dependence was recommended.
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It is now clear that even by the earlier distinction in nomencla-
ture, cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting and
actions of nicotine provide the pharmacologic basis of tobacco
addiction. The term ~'dependenee producing" may also be used to
describe cigarettes and other forms of tobacco use, analogous to
actions of other drugs (e.g., opiates, cocaine). Since 1964, considerable
additional evidence has been compiled that substantiates these
conclusions. The present Report reviews this information and the
relevant literature.
Previous Surgeon General's Reports provided current reviews of
the health consequences of cigarette smoking particularly relevant
to public health. For example, despite the accumulating evidence, in
the early 1960s there was little recognition by the public of the
health hazards of smoking. Each Report examined specific informa-
tion considered to be important for public dissemination. A brief
review of topics addressed in these reports provides the background
for the present Report.
In the late 1950s, the U.S. Public Health Service, the National
Cancer Institute, the National Heart Institute, the American Cancer
Society, and the American Heart Association appointed a study
group to examine the available evidence on smoking and health.
This study group concluded that excessi~e cigarette smoking is a
causative factor in lung cancer.
In 1962, Surgeon General Luther Terry established an advisory
committee on smoking and health. This committee released its
Report on January 11, 1964, concluding that cigarette smoking is a
cause of lung cancer in men and a suspected cause of lung cancer in
women, and increased the risk of dying from pulmonary emphysema.
The next Report was issued in 1967 (US PHS 1968a) and stated that
"the case for cigarette smoking as the principal cause of lung cancer
is overwhelming." Further, the 1967 Report concluded that: "There
is an increasing convergence of many types of evidence.., which
strongly suggests that cigarette smoking can cause death from
coronary heart disease." The 1967 Report also concluded that
"Cigarette smoking is the most important of the causes of chronic
non-neoplastic bronchopulmonary disease in the United States."
The 1968 and 1969 Reports (US PHS 1968b, 1969) strengthened
the conclusions reached in 1967, The 1971 Report provided a detailed
review of the evidence to date regarding health consequences of
smoking (US DHEW 1971). The subsequent reports (1972 to 1976)
continued to review the increasing evidence associating cigarette
smoking with many health hazards. The 1972 Report also discussed
involuntary or passive smoking (US DHEW 1972). The 1973 Report
included some data on the health hazards of smoking pipes and
cigars (US PHS 1973). The 1975 Report updated information on the
health effects of involuntary or passive smoking (US DHEW 1975).
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The combined 1977-78 Report discussed smoking-related problems
unique to women (US DHEW 1978).
At the time of its release, the 1979 Report was the most
comprehensive review by a Surgeon General's Report of the health
consequences of smoking, smoking behavior, and smoking control. In
addition to providing a thorough review of the health consequences
of smoking, the 1979 Report discussed the health consequences of
using forms of tobacco other than cigarettes (pipes, cigars, and
smokeless tobacco). Moreover, the ]979 Report expanded the scope of
the previous reports and examined behavioral, pharmacologic, and
social factors influencing the initiation, maintenance, and cessation
of cigarette smoking. Relevant to the topic of the present Report, the
1979 Report concluded that "it is no exaggeration to say that
smoking is the prototypical substance-abuse dependency and that
improved knowledge of this process holds great promise for preven-
tion of risk." Since the release of the 1979 Report, each subsequent
Report has focused on a specific population or setting (women in
1980 (US DHHS 1980), the workplace in 1985 (US DHHS 1985)), a
specific topic (health effects of low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes in
1981 (US DHHS 1981), involuntary smoking in 1986 (US DHHS
1986a)), or a specific disease (cancer in 1982 (US DHHS 1982),
cardiovascular diseases in 1983 (US DHHS 1983a), chronic obstruc-
tive lung disease in 1984 (US DHHS 1984a)).
In addition to the prevlous Surgeon General's Repoi:ts, several
other developments and publications provide relevant background
for the present Report. For example, numerous monographs pre-
pared in the 1970s by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
considered tobacco use as a form of drug dependence. In 1980, the
American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, included tobacco dependence as a
substance abuse disorder and tobacco withdrawal as an organic
mental disorder (APA 1980). The 1987 revised edition of this manual
(APA 1987), in recognition of the role of nicotine, changed "tobacco
withdrawal" to "nicotine withdrawal." In 1982, the Director of NIDA
testified to Congress that the position of NIDA was that tobacco use
could lead to dependence and that nicotine was a prototypic
dependence-producing drug. In a 1983 publication, "Why People
Smoke Cigarettes," the U.S. Public Health Service supported this
position of NIDA regarding tobacco and nicotine (US DHHS 1983b).
In the 1984 NIDA Triennial Report to Congress, nicotine was labeled
a prototypic dependence-producing drug and the role of nicotine in
tobacco use was considered to be analogous to the roles of morphine,
cocaine, and ethanol, in the use of opium, coea-derived product~, and
alcoholic beverages, respectively (US DHHS 1984b). In 1986, a
consensus conference of the National Institutes of Health and the
Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General on the
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health consequences of using smokeless tobacco concluded that
smokeless tobacco can be addicting and that nicotine is a depen-
dence-producing (i.e., addicting) drug (US DHHS 1986b).
The present Report is the 20th such report issued by the Public
Health Service on the health consequences of tobacco use. The
deleterious effects of cigarette smoking are now well known.
Therefore, this Report focuses on pharmacologic information to help
understand why people smoke. Such information will assist health
professionals in developing effective strategies to prevent initiation
and to promote cessation. The literature reviewed in this Report
indicates that tobacco use is an addictive behavior. It is the purpose
of this Report to thoroughly review the relevant literature.
Chapter Conclusions
In addition, to the three overall conclusions of this Report, there
are many other substantive conclusions. These points are listed
under the appropriate Chapter and Appendix headings.
Chapter Ih Nicotine: Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism, and Phar-
macodynamics
1. All tobacco products contain substantial amounts of nicotine
and other alkaloids. Tohaccbs from low-yield and high-yleld
cigarettes contain similar amounts of nicotine.
2. Nicotine is absorbed readily from tobacco smoke in the lungs
and from smokeless tobacco in the mouth or nose. Levels of
nicotine in the blood are similar in magnitude in people using
different forms of tobacco. With regular use, levels of nicotine
accumulate in the body during the day and persist overnight.
Thus, daily tobacco users are exposed to the effects of nicotine
for 24 hr each day.
3. Nicotine that enters the blood is rapidly distributed to the
brain. As a result, effects of nicotine on the central nervous
system occur rapidly after a puff of cigarette smoke or after
absorption of nicotine from other routes of administration.
4. Acute and chronic tolerance develops to many effects of
nicotine. Such tolerance is consistent with reports that initial
use of tobacco products, such as in adolescents first beginning
to smoke, is usually accompanied by a number of unpleasant
symptoms which disappear following chronic tobacco use.
Chapter III: Nicotine: Sites and Mechanisms of Actions
1. Nicotine is a powerful pharmacologic agent that acts in the
brain and throughout the body. Actions include electrocortical
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activation, skeletal muscle relaxation, and cardiovascular and
endocrine effects. The many biochemical and electrocortlcal
effects of nicotine may act in concert to reinforce tobacco use.
Z. Nicotine acts on specific binding sites or receptors throughout
the nervous system. Nicotine readily crosses the blood-brain
barrier and accumulates ia the brain shortly after it enters the
body. Once in the brain, it interacts with specific receptors and
alters brain energy metabolism in a pattern consistent with the
distribution of specific binding sites for the drug.
3. Nicotine and smoking exert effects on nearly all components of
the endocrine and neuroendocrine systems (including catechol-
amines, sorotonin, corticosteroids, pituitary hormones/. Some
of these endocrine effects are mediated by actions of nicotine
on brain neurotransniitter systems (e.g., hypothalam-
ic-pituitary axis). In addition, nicotine has direct peripherally
mediated effects (e.g., on the adrenal medulla and the adrenal
cortex).
Chapter IV: Tobacco Use as Drug Dependence
L Cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting. Patterns of
tobacco use are regular and compulsive, and a withdrawal
syndrome usually'accompanies tobacco abst]nence.
2. Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. Specifi-
cally, nicotine is psychoactive ("mood altering") and can
provide pleasurable effects. Nicotine can serve as a reinforcer
to motivate tobacco-seeking and tobacco-using behavior. Toler-
ance develops to actions of nicotine such that repeated use
results in diminished effects and can be accompanied by
increased intake. Nicotine also causes physical dependence
characterized by a withdrawal syndrome that usually accompa-
nies nicotine abstinence.
3. The physical characteristics of nicotine delivery systems can
affect their toxicity and addietiveness. Therefore, new nicotine
delivery systems should be evaluated for their toxic and
addictive affects.
Chapter V: Tobacco Use Compared to Other Drug Dependen-
cies
1.The pharmacologic and behavioral processes that determine
tobacco addiction are similar to those that determine addiction
to drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
2. Environmental factors including drug-associated stimuli and
social pressure are important influences of initiation, patterns
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of use, quitting, and relapse to use of opioids, alcohol, nicotine,
and other addicting drugs.
3. Many persons dependent upon opioids, alcohol, nicotine, or
other drugs are able to give up their drug use outside the
context of treatment programs; other persons, however, re-
quire the assistance of formal cessation programs to achieve
lasting drug abstinence.
4, Relapse to drug use often occurs among persons who have
achieved abstinence from opioids, alcohol, nicotine, or other
drugs.
5. Behavioral and pharmacologic intervention techniques with
demonstrated efficacy are available for the treatment of
addiction to opioids, alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs.
Chapter VI: Effects of Nicotine That May Promote Tobacco
Dependence
1. After smoking cigarettes or receiving nicotine, smokers per-
form better on some cognitive tasks (including sustained
attention and selective attention) than they do when deprived
of cigarettes or nicotine. However, smoking and nicotine do not
improve general learning.
2. Stress increases cigarette consumption among smokers. Fur-
ther, stress has been identified as a risk factor for initiation of
smoking in adolescence.
3. In general, cigarette smokers weigh less (approximately 7 lb
less on average) than nonsmokers. Many smokers who quit
smoking gain weight,
4. Food intake and probably metabolic factors are involved in the
inverse relationship between smoking and body weight. There
is evidence that nicotine plays an important role in the
relationship between smoking and body weight.
Chapter VII: Treatment of Tobacco Dependence
I. Tobacco dependence can be treated successfully,
2. Effective interventions include behavioral approaches alone
and behavioral approaches with adjunctive pharmacologic
treatment.
3. Behavioral interventions are most effective when they include
multiple components (procedures such as aversive smoking,
skills training, group support, and self-reward). Inclusion of too
many treatment procedures can lead to less successful out-
come.
4. Nicotine replacement can reduce tobacco withdrawal symp-
toms and may enhance the efficacy of behavioral treatment.
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Appendix A: Trends in Tobacco Use in the United States
1. An estimated 32.7 percent of men and 28.3 percent of women
smoked cigarettes regularly in 1985. The overall prevalence of
smoking in the United States decreased from 36.7 percent in
1976 (52.4 million adults) to 30.4 percent in 1985 (51.1 million
adults).
2. In 1985, the mean reported number of cigarettes smoked per
day was 21.8 for male smokers and 18.1 for female smokers.
3. Smoking is more common in lower socioeconomic categories
(blue-collar workers or unemployed persons, less educated
persons, and lower income groups) than in higher socioeconom-
ic categories. For example, the prevalence of smoking in 1985
among persons without a high school diploma was 35.4 percent,
compared with 16.5 percent among persons with postgraduate
college education.
4. An estimated 18.7 percent of high school seniors reported daily
use of cigarettes in 1986. The prevalence of daily use of one or
more cigarettes among high school seniors declined between
1975 and 1986 by approximately 35 percent. Most of the decline
occurred between 1977 and 1981. Since 1976, the smoking
prevalence among females has consistently been slightly
higher than among males.
5. The use of cigars and pipes has declined 80 percent since 1964.
6. Smokeless tobacco use has increased substantially among
young men and has declined among older men since 1975. An
estimated 8.2 percent of 17- to 19*year-old men were users of
smokeless tobacco products in 1986.
Appendix B: Toxicity of Nicotine
1. At high exposure levels, nicotine is a potent and potentially
lethal poison. Human poisonings occur primarily as a result of
accidental ingestion or skin contact with nicotine-containing
insecticides or, in children, after ingestion of tobacco or tobacco
juices.
2. Mild nicotine intoxication occurs in first-time smokers, non-
smoking workers who harvest tobacco leaves and people who
chew excessive amounts of nicotine polacrilex gum. Tolerance
to these effects develops rapidly.
3. Nicotine exposure in long-term tobacco users is substantial,
affecting many organ systems (Chapters II and III). Pharmaco-
logic actions of nicotine may contribute to the pathogenesis of
smoking-related diseases, although direct causation has not yet
been determined. Of particular concern are cardiovascular
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disease, complications of hypertension, reproductive disorders,
cancer, and gastrointestinal disorders, including peptic ulcer
disease and gastroesophageal reflux.
4. The risks of short-term nicotine replacement therapy as an aid
to smoking cessation in healthy people are acceptable and
substantially outweighed by the risks of cigarette smoking.
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CHAPTER II
NICOTINE: PHARMACOKINETICS,
• METABOLISM, AND ,
PHARMACODYNAMICS
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Nicotine and Other Alkaloids in Various Tobacco Prod-
ucts
Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism of Nicotine
Absorption of Nicotine
Distribution of Nicotine in Body Tissues
Elimination of Nicotine
Pathways of Nicotine Metabolism
Rate of Nicotine Metabolism
Renal Excretion
Nicotine and Cotiniae Blood Levels During Tobacco
Use
Nicotine Levels
Cotlnine Levels
Intake of Nicotine Cigarette Smoking
Elimination Rate as a Determinant of Nicotine
Intake by Cigarette Smoking
Biochemical Markers of Nicotine Intake
Analytical Methods for Measuring Nicotine and Coti-
nine in Biological Fluids
Pharmacodynamics of Nicotine
General Considerations
Dose-Response
Tolerance
Acute Sensitivity
Human Studies
Animal Studies
Mechanisms of Differences in Acute Sensitivity
Tachyphylaxis (Acute Tolerance)
Human Studies
Animal Studies
Mechanisms of Tachyphylaxis
Chronic Tolerance
Human Studies
Animal Studies
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Mechanisms of Chronic Tolerance
Pharmacodynamics of Nicotine and Cigarette Smok- ing
Constituents of Tobacco Smoke Other Than Nicotine
With Potential Behavioral Effects Minor Tobacco Alkaloids
"Tar" and Selected Constituents of Tobacco Smoke
Which Contribute to Taste and Aroma
Carbon Monoxide
Acetaldehyde and Other Smoke Constituents
Summary and Conclusions
References
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Introduction
Chemicals with behavioral and physiological activity are delivered
to tobacco users when they smoke a cigarette or use other tobacco
products. Whether these chemicals are absorbed in quantities that
are of biological significance and whether such absorption is related
to the behavior of the tobacco user are critical issues in understand*
ing their role in addictive tobacco use. The scientific study of the
absorption processes, distribution :within the body, and elimination
from the body of drugs and chemicals is called pharmacokinetics.
The study of drug and other chemical actions on the body, over time,
is called pharmacodynamics.
Pharmacokinetic and pharmacody,3amic studies can be done
separately or together. An example of the.latter is when a drug is
administered and its concentrations in the blood and its behavioral
and physiological actions are measured over time. Such studies can
reveal relationships among the dose of a drug, levels in the blood,
and effects on body functions.
The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of some tobacco
smoke constituents, particularly nicotine and carbon monoxide, have
been extensively studied. These studies show an orderly relationship
between the use of tobacco and the absorption of nicotine. Similarly,
the effects on behavioral and physiological functions, although
complex, are orderly and related to the pbar~acokinetics of nicotine.
These data will be reviewed in this Section. Research shows that
nicotine is well absorbed from tobacco; that it is distributed rapidly
and in biologically active concentrations to body organs, including
the brain; and that nicotine is the major cause of the predominant
behavioral effects of tobacco and some of its physiologic conse-
Quences.
One effect of nicotine, development of tolerance to its own actions,
is similar to that produced by other addicting drugs. Tolerance refers
to decreasing responsiveness to a drug or chemical such that larger
doses are required to produce the same magnitude of effect.
Tolerance to many actions of nicotine occurs in animals and humans.
Evidence for tolerance to nicotine and mechanisms of tolerance
development will be reviewed in this Chapter (see also Chapter VI).
Although nicotine has long been considered as the primary
pharmacologic reason for tobacco use, and the source of a number of
the physiological effects of tobacco, thousands of other chemicals are
present in tobacco. Most of these are delivered in such small
quantities that they appear to have little or no behavioral conse-
quence. However, a few chemicals do appear to have behavioral
effects and there is n potential for numerous chemical interactions
that conceivably could have behavioral consequences. This Chapter
will conclude with an examination of tobacco smoke constituents
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other than nicotine that may contribute to behavioral effects of
cigarette smoking.
The toxicity of nicotine is discussed in detail in Appendix B.
Nicotine and Other Alkaloids In Various Tobacco Products
Nicotine is a tertiary amine composed of a pyridine and a
pyrrolidine ring (Figure 1). Nicotine may exist in two different three-
dimensionally structured shapes, called stereoisomers. Tobacco
contains only (S)-nicotine (also called l-nicotine), which is the most
pharmacologically active form. Tobacco smoke also contains the less
potent (R)-nicotine (also called d-nicotine) in quantities up to 10
pert;ent of the total nicotine present (Pool, Godin, Crooks 1985).
Presumably some racemization occurs during the combustion pro-
cess.
The nicotine yield of cigarettes, as determined by standardized
smoking machine tests, is available for most brands. However, the
amount of nicotine in cigarettes or other tobacco products is not
specified by manufacturers. Because tobacco is a plant product, there
are differences in the amount of nicotine among and within different
types and strains of tobacco, including variations in different parts of
the plant, as well as differences related to growing conditions.,Table
I shows concentrations of nicotine and uther alkaloids in several
different tobacco leaves used in making commercial tobacco prod-
ucts. Within a tobacco plant, leaves harvested from higher stalk
positions have higher concentrations of nicotine than from lower
stalk positions; ribs and stems of the leaves have the least (Rath-
kamp, Tso, Hoffmann 1973). Combining different varieties of tobacco
and different parts of the plant is a way to change the nicotine
concentration of commercial tobacco.
In a study of amounts of nicotine in the tobacco of 15 American
cigarette brands of differing machine-determined yields (Benowitz,
Hall et el. 1983), tobacco contained on average 1.5 percent nicotine
by weight, Nicotine yield of the cigarettes, as defined by Federal
Trade Commission smoking machine tests, was correlated inversely
with nicotine concentrations in the tobacco. Thus, tobacco of lower.
yield cigarettes tended to have higher concentrations of nicotine
than did tobacco of higher*yield cigarettes. However, lower-yield
cigarettes also contained less tobacco per cigarette, so the total
amount of nicotine contained per cigarette, averaging 8.4 mg, was
similar in different brands. Thus, low.yield cigarettes are low yield
not because of lower concentrations of nicotine in the tobacco, but
because they contain less tobacco and have characteristics which
remove tar and nicotine by filtration or dilution of smoke with air.
Concentrations of nicotine in commercial tobacco products are
summarized in Table 2.
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NICOTINE ANATABINE ANABASIN~
ANABASEINE
NORNICOT~N E N'- ME ~dyLAN ATABINE N'.METHyLANABA~INE
2,3'.DIp VRIDYL
N*.~tTf~O$O~ORNICOTINE N~JOT'~C;NE NORN~OTYR~
~TAN~OTINE
NICO~NE N~)XIDE COTtNINE 6'.OXOANABASINE PSEUDOOXYNICOTINE
. (OXYNI~3TINE)
FIGURE 1,.--Chemlea] structures of nicotine and minor
tobacco alkaloids
SOURCE: Lele 11983k
Although the major alkaloid in tobacco is nicotine, there are other
alkaloids in tobacco which may be of pharmacologic importance.
These include nornicotine, anabasine, myosmine, nicotyrine, and
anatabine (Figure 1). These substances make up 8 to 12 percent of
the total alkaloid content of tobacco products (Table 1) (Piade and
Hoffmann 1980). In some varieties of tobacco, nornicotine concentra-
tion8 exceed those of nicotine (Schmeltz and Hoffmann ]977).
Typical quantities of the minor alkaloids in the smoke of one
cigarette arc: nornicotine (27 to 88 ~g), cotinine (9 to 50 Itg),
anabasine (3 to 12 I~g), anatabine (4 to 14 t~g), myosmine (9 ~tg), and
2,3'bipyridyl (7 to 27 i~g). N'.methylanabasine, nicotyrine, nornicoty-
fine, and nicotine-N'-oxide have also been identified in cigarette
smoke (Schmeltz and Hoffmann ]977). Puffing characteristics,
especially puff frequency, influence the delivery of the component
alkaloids (Bush, Grfinwald, Davis 1972).
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TABLE 1.--Alkaloid content of various tobaccos (mg/kg,
dry basis)
Dark commercial tobacco
Alkaloid A B Buriey
Bright
Nicotine LL500 10,000 15AOC
12,900
Nornicoline 550 200 630 :710
Anatabine 360 380 570 603
Anabasine [40 150 ~0 150
Cotinine 195 140 90 40
Myosmine 45 50 60 30
2,3'-aipyridyl 1CO ll0 30 10
N'-For myl.nor nicotine 175 210 140 40
SOURCe: Piade ond Hoffmann 119801
TABLE 2.--Nicotine content of various tobacco products
Number Concentration Typical
Nicotine in Nicotine in dose
of brands of nicotine single dose~ single
dcse~ typically consumed
Product tested (mgfg tc, bac¢o) {g tobaccol (rag) in a day
Cigarettesk 15 157 C13.3-26 9)~ 054 84
168 rag/20 cig~
Moist snuff~¸~ 8 105 (61-16.6p 1,4 145 157
rag/15 g
Chewing tobacco:~4 2 168 19.1-24.5i 7.9 133
1,176 rag/70 g
¸¸Single dose refers Io a cigarette Or an ~mount Of smokeless tobacco placed in the mouth
~ Range
SOURC[~ 11]¢nc~wit z' }Jail et al q ] ~*~3J: ~ Ko21owski et al (19821: = Gritz el al {19~ 11; ,
Benowit z porc}~el et ~l
11988k
Nornicotine and anabasine have pharmacologic activity qualita-
tively similar to that of nicotine, with potencies of 20 to 75 percent
compared with that of nicotine, depending on the test system and the
animal (Clark, Rand, Vanov 1965). In addition to direct activity,
some of the minor alkaloids may influence the effects of nicotine. For
example, nicotyrine inhibits the metabolism of nicotine in animals
(Stalhandske and Slanina 1982).
The pharmacology of the minor tobacco alkaloids is discussed in
more detail in the last section of this Chapter.
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Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism of Nlootine
Absorption of Nicotine
Nicotine is distilled from burning tobacco and is carried proximal-
ly on tar droplets (mass median diameter 0.3 to 0,5 ~tm) and probably
also in the vapor phase (Eudy et al. 1985), which are inhaled.
Absorption of nicotine across biological membranes depends on pH
(Armitage and Turner 1970; Schievelbein et al. 1973). Nicotine is a
weak base with a pKa (index of ionic dissociation) of 8.0 (aqueous
solution, 25°C). This means •that at pH 8.0, 50 percent of nicotine is
ionized and 50 percent is nonionized. In its ionized state, such as in
acidic environments, nicotine does not rapidly cross membranes.
The pH of tobacco smoke is important in determining absorption
of nicotine from different sites within the body. The pH of individual
puffs of cigarettes made of flue-cured tobacco, the predominant
tobacco in most American cigarettes, is acidic and decreases progres-
sively with sequential puffs from pH 6.0 to 5.5 (Brunnemann and
Hoffmann 1974). At these pHs, the nicotine is almost completely
ionized. As a consequence, there is little buccal absorption of nicotine
from cigarette smoke, even when it is held in the mouth (Gori,
Benowitz, Lynch 1986). The smoke from air-cured tobaccos, the
predominant tobacco in pipes, cigars, and in a few European
cigarettes, is alkaline with progressive puffs increasing its pH from
6.5 to 7.5 or higher (Brunneman and Hoffmann 1974)~ At alkaline
pH, nicotine is largely nonionized and readily crosses membranes.
Nicotine from products delivering smoke of alkaline pH is well
absorbed through the mouth (Armitage et al. 1978; Russell, Raw,
Jarvis 1980).
When tobacco smoke reaches the small airways and alveoli of the
lung, the nicotine is rapidly absorbed. The rapid absorption of
nicotine from cigarette smoke through the lung occurs because of the
huge surface area of the alveoli and small airways and because of
dissolution of nicotine at physiological pH (approximately 7.4), which
facilitates transfer across cell membranes. Concentrations of nic-
otine in blood rise quickly during cigarette smoking and peak at its
completion (Figure 2). Armitage and coworkers (1975), measuring
exhalation of radiolabelod nicotine, found that four cigarette smok-
ers absorbed 82 to 92 percent of the nicotine in mainstream smoke,
another smoker presumed to be a noninhaler absorbed 29 percent,
and three nonsmokers (who were instructed to smoke as deeply as
possible) absorbed 30 to 66 percent.
Chewing tobacco, snuff, and nicotine polacrilex gum are of
alkaline pH as a result of tobacco selection and/or buffering with
additives by the manufacturer. The alkaline pH facilitates absorp-
tion of nicotine through mucous membranes. The rate of nicotine
absorption from smokeless tobacco depends on the product and the
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smoking cigarettes (1 1/3 cigarettes), using oral
snuff (2,5 g), using chewing tobacco (average,
7.9 g), and chewing nicotine gum (two 2-mg
pieces)
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route of administration, With fine-ground nasal snuff, blood levels of
nicotine rise almost as fast as those observed after cigarette smoking
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(Russell et al. 1981). The rate of nicotine absorption with the use of
oral snuff and chewing tobacco is more gradual. Nicotine is poorly
absorbed from the stomach due to the acidity of gastric fluid (Travell
1960), but is well absorbed in the small intestine (Jenner, Gorrod,
Beckett 1978), which has a more alkaline pH and a large surface
area. Bioavailability of nicotine from the gastrointestinal tract (that
is, swallowed nicotine) is incomplete because of presystemic (first
pass) metabolism, whereby, after absorption into the portal venous
circulation, nicotine is metabolized by the liver before it reaches the
systemic venous circulation. This is in contrast to nicotine absorbed
through the lungs or oral/nasal mucosa, which reaches the systemic
circulation without first passing through the liver. Nicotine base can
be absorbed through the skin, and there have been cases of poisoning
after skin contact with pesticides containing nicotine (Faulkner
1933; Benowitz, Lake et el, 1987; Saxena and Scheman 1985).
Likewise, there is evidence of cutaneous absorption of and toxicity
from nicotine in tobacco field workers (Gehlbach at el. 1975).
Because of the complexity of cigarette smoking processes and use
of smokeless tobacco products, the dose of nisotine cannot be
predicted from the nicotine content of the tobacco or its absorption
characteristics. To determine the dose, one needs to measure blood
levels and know how fast the individual eliminates nicotine. This
topic, estimation of systemic doses of nicotine consumed from various
tobacco products, will be considered in a later section after discussion
of relevant pharmasokinetie issues.
Distribution of Nicotine in Body Tissues
After absorption into the blood, which is at pH 7.4, about 69
percent of the nicotine is ionized and 31 percent nonionized. Binding
to plasma proteins is less than 5 percent (Benowitz, Jacob et ah
1982), The drug is distributed extensively to body tissues with a
steady state volume of distribution averaging 180 liters (2.6 times
body weight (in kilograms)) (Table 3). This means that when nicotine
concentrations have fully equilibrated, the amount of nicotine in the
body tissues is 2.6 times the amount predicted by the product of
blood concentration and body weight. The pattern of tissue uptake
cannot be studied in humans, but it has been examined in tissues of
rabbits by measuring concentrations of nicotine in various tissues
after infusion of nicotine to steady state (Table 4). Spleen, liver,
lungs, and brain have high affinity for nicotine, whereas the affinity
of adipose tissue is relatively low.
After rapid intravenous (i.v.) injection, concentrations of nicotine
decline rapidly because of tissue uptake of the drug. Shortly after i.e.
injection, concentrations in arterial blood, lung, and brain are high,
while concentrations in tissues such as muscle and adipose (major
storage tissues at steady state) are low. The consequence of this
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TABLE 3.--Human pharmacokinetics of nicotine and cotinine
Nicotine Cotinine
Half.life 120 rain 18 hr
Volume of distribution 180 L 88 L
Total clearance 1,300 rnL/min 72 mL/min
Renal clearance 20~ mL/min 12 mL/min
(acid urlnel
Nonrenal clearance l,ICO mL/mln 60 mL/min
SOURCE: Average va]ues b~sed on data from Benowit~ Jacob et st 119821 antl Benowit~ Kuyt el a]
{19831
TABLE 4.--Steady state distribution of nicotine
Tissue Ti~ue to blood ratio
B[ood 1.0
Brain 3.0
Heart 3.7
Muscle 22
Adipose 95
Kidney 21.6
Liver 3.7
Lung 2.0
Gastrointestinal 2,5
NOTS: Tissue to blood nicot irte concentration ratios based oh 24.hr constant Lv. in fusiDa of
nicotine in rabbits
SOURCE¸ Benowitz 11986b)
distribution pattern is that uptake into the brain is rapid, occurring
within 1 or 2 rain, and blood levels fall because of peripheral tissue
uptake for 20 or 30 min after administration. Thereafter, blood
concentrations decline more slowly, as determined by rates of
elimination and rates of distribution out of storage tissues.
Rapid nicotine uptake into the brain has been demonstrated in
animal studies. Oldendorf (1974) showed a high degree of nicotine
uptake from blood in the first pass through the brains of rats.
SchmitorlSw and colleagues (1967) showed by autoradiographic
techniques that high levels of nicotine were present in the brain 5
min after i.v. injections in mice and that most nicotine had been
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cleared from the brain by g0 rain. Stalhandske (1970) showed that
intravenously injected ~4C-nicotine is immediately taken up in the
brains of mice, reaching a maximum concentration within 1 min
after injection. Similar findings based on positron emission tomogra-
phy of the brain were seen after injection of l~C.nicotine in monkeys
(Mazi~re et al. 1976).
Nicotine inhaled in tobacco smoke enters the blood almost as
rapidly as after rapid i.v. injection except that the entry point into
the circulation is pulmonary rather than systemic venous. Because
of delivery into the lung, peak nicotine levels may be higher and lag
time between smoking and entry into the brain shorter than after
i.e. injection. After smoking, the action of nicotine on the brain is
expected to occur quickly. Rapid onset of effects after a puff is .
believed to provide optimal reinforcement for the development of
drug dependence. The effect of nicotine declines as it is distributed to
other tissues. The distribution half-life, which describes the move-
ment of nicotine from the blood and other rapidly perfused tissues,
such as the brain, to other body tissues, is about 9 rain (Feyerabend
et al. 1985). Distribution kinetics, rather than elimination kinetics
(half-life, about 2 hr), determine the time course of central nervous
system (CNS) actions of nicotine after smoking a single cigarette.
Nicotine is secreted into saliva (Russell and Feyerabend 19"18).
Passage of saliva containing nicotine into the stomach, combined
with the trapping of nicotine in the acidic gastric fluid and
reabsorption from the small bowel, provides a potential route for
enteric nicotine recirculation. This recirculation may account for
some of the oscillations in the terminal decline phase of nicotine
blood levels after i.v. nicotine infusion or cessation of smoking
(Russell 1976).
Nicotine freely crosses the placenta and has been found in
amniotic fluid and the umbilical cord blood of neonates (Hibberd,
O'Connor, Gorred 1978; Luck et al. 1982; Van Vunakis, Langone,
Milunsky 1974). Nicotine is found in breast milk and the breast fluid
of nonlactating women (Petrakis et ah 1978; Hill and Wynder 1979)
and in cervical mucous secretions (Sasson et al. 1985). Nicotine is
also found in the freshly shampooed hair of smokers and of
nonsmokers environmentally exposed to tobacco smoke (Haley and
Hoffmann 1985).
Elimination of Nicotine
Nicotine is extensively metabolized, primarily in the liver, but also
to a small extent in the lung (Turner et al. 1975). Renal excretion of
unchanged nicotine depends on urinary pH and urine flow, and may
range from 2 to 35 percent, but typically accounts for 5 to 10 percent
of total elimination (Benowitz, Kuyt et al. 1983; Rosenberg et al.
1980).
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NICOTINE I.HYDROXYNICO|IN/
I FLAVOPROT~ N~
~O~NC UR(NARY
H EXCRETION
H~
NICOTINE N'-OXIDE
NICOTINE IMINIUM
ION
ALDEHYDE~
OXIOASE
COTININE
FIGURE 3.--Major pathways of nicotine metabolism
Pathways of Nicotine Metabolism
The primary metabolites of nicotine are cotinJne and nicotine-N'-
oxide (Figure 3). Cotinine is formed in the liver in a two-step process,
the first of which involves oxidation of position 5 of the pyrrolidine
ring in a cytochrome P-45O-mediated process to nicotine-~t<~',-imini-
um ion (Petcrson, Trevor, Castagnoli 1987). In the second step the
iminium ion is metabolized by a cytoplasmic aldehyde oxidase to
cotinine (Hibberd and Gorrod 1983).
Cotinine itself is also extensively mehabolized, with only about 17
percent excreted unchanged in the urine (Benowitz, Kuyt et al.
1983). Several metabolites of cotinine have been reported, including
trans-3'-hydroxycotinine (McKennis, Turnbull et al. 1963), 5'-hydrox-
ycotinine (Bowman and McKennis 1962), cotinine-N-oxide (Shulgin
et al. 1987), and cotinine methonium ion (McKennis, Turnbull,
Bowman 1963) (see Figure 4). Little is known about the quantitative
impvrtance of these metabolites. Trans-3'-hydroxycotlnine appears
to be a major metabolite (Jacob, Benowitz, Shulgin 1988; Neurath et
al. 1987), with urinary concentrations exceeding eotinine concentra-
tions by twofold to threefold. Cotinine N-oxide is a minor metabolite
in humans, accounting for approximately 3 percent of ingested
nicotine (Shulgin et al. 1987). Subsequent oxidative degradation of
the pyrrolidine ring gives rise to 3-pyridylacetic acid. This compound
has been identified in human urine (MeKennis, Schwartz, Bowman
1964), but no quantitative data are available.
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3¸
NJCOTINE
.;'~o
COTININE
~JCOTINE.N.OXIDE
OH
TRANS. 3,. HYDROXYCOT~NINE
O
COTIN]NE-N-OXIDE
HO O
• =
CP~
$'.h*YOROXYC~TINtNE
~', I3. PYRIOYLI ,~. O )CO. N,M E TH yL BUTYR AMIO¢=
CH=
NICOTINE ISOMETHONIUM ION
~O
CH3
COTININE METHONIUM ION
FIGURE 4.--Structures of nicotine and its major
metabolites
SOURCE P, Jacob Ill {with permission~
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Nicotine-l'-N-oxide is quantitatively a minor metabolite of nlc-
otine. Oxidation of the nitrogen atom of the pyrrolidlne ring depends
on a microsomal flavoprotein system and produces a mixture of the
two diasterisomers, l'-(R)-2'-(S)-cis- and l'-(S)-2'-(S)-trans.nicotine-l'-
N'-oxide (Booth and Boyland 1970}. After i.v. injection, 100 percent of
nicotine-N'-oxide is excreted unchanged in the urine, indicating no
further metabolism (Beckett, Gorrod, Jenner 1971a). However, after
oral administration only 30 percent is recovered in the urine as
nicotine-N'-oxide; the remainder is recovered as nicotine and its
metabolites. To evaluate the possibility of reduction of nicotlne-N'-
oxide in the gastrointestinal tract, rectal administration of nicotine-
N'-oxide was performed for experimental purposes. Less than 10
percent was recovered in the urine as aicotine-N'-oxide (Beckett,
Gorrpd, Jenner 1970). These findings indicate reduction of nicotine-
N'-oxide back to nicotine within the human gastrointestinal tract,
believed to be a consequence of bacterial action.
Experiments in rats indicate that significant amounts of nicotine-
N'-oxide are converted to nicotine both in vitro and in vivo (Dajani,
Gorrod, Beckett 1975a,b}. Nicotine and cotinine have been measured
in the blood of rats administered nicotine-N,N'-dloxide and nicotine-
N'-oxide in drinking water (Sepkovic et al. 1984, 1986). Thus, while
reduction of nicotine-N'-oxide to nicotine appears to be bacterial in
humans, it may be mediated by endogenous enzymes in other
species.
Quantitative aspects of the conversion of nicotine to its metabo-
lites have not been well defined. Studies of cotinine excretion in
urine collected for 24 hr after i.w nicotine injection indicate less than
l0 percent of nicotine is excreted as cotinine in nonsmokers
compared with an average of 25 percent in smokers (Beckett, Gorrod,
Jenner 1971b). Another study, comparing 24-hr urinary excretion of
cotinine with nicotine content of cigarette butts after smoking,
indicated 46 percent recovery as cotinine (Schievelbein 1982).
However, both of these studies underestimate the conversion of
nicotine to cotlnine because the urine collection period was too short.
In cigarette smokers, cotinine has a half-life averaging 18 to 20 hr
(Benowitz, Kuyt et al. 1983), so that in 24 hr only a little more than
half of cotiniae is recovered. Urine collection for at least 72 hr is
necessary to recover more than 90 percent of cotinine in most
subjects. In addition, since only 17 percent of cotinine is excreted
unchanged (Benowitz, Kuyt et al. 1983), urinary recovery analysis
underestimates the cotinlne generation rate.
At steady state, the rate of metabolites excretion reflects the rate
at which the metabolites are generated. After i.v. dosing, 100 percent
of nicotine-N'-oxide but only 17 percent of cotinine is excreted
unchanged in the urine. Based on a ratio of urinary cotinine to
nicotine-N'-oxide of 2.9 and based on excretion of that 17 percent of
t
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cotinine and 100 percent of nicotine-N'-oxlde unchanged in the
urine, the relative generation rate of cotinine compared with that of
nicotine-N'-oxide is calculated to be 17 to 1 (Benowitz 1986b).
Because 4 percent of nicotine is excreted as nicotine-N'-oxide (Jacob
et al. 1986; Beckett, Gorred~ Jenner 1971a), about 70 percent of
nicotine appears to be converted to cotinine. Quantitative data on
other metabolites that may have pharmacologic activity, such as
nicotine isomethonium ion and nornicotine, are not available.
Rate of Nicotine Metabolism
The rate of nicotine metabolism can be determined by measuring
blood levels after administration of a known nicotine dose. In one
study, cigarette smokers were given i.v. infusions of nicotine for 30 to
60 rain, and total and renal clearances were comptited (Benowitz,
Jacob et al. 1982). Total clearance (a term which describes the
capacity to eliminate a drug) averaged 1,300 mL/min. Nonrenal
clearance averaged 1,100 mL/min (Table 3), which represents about
70 percent of liver blood flow. Because nicotine is metabolized
mainly by the liver (data in animals indicate only a small degree of
metabolism by the lung) (Turner, Sillett, McNicol 1977), this means
that about 70 percent of the drug is extracted from the blood in each
pass through the liver. On the average, 85 or 90 percent of nicotine is
metabolized by the liver.
Renal Excretion
Nicotine is excreted by glomerular filtration and tubular seci~etion
within the kidney. Depending on urinary pH and urine flow rate,
variable amounts of nicotine are reabsorbed by the kidney tubules.
In acidic urine, where nicotine is mostly ionized and tubular
reabsorption is minimized, renal clearance of nicotine may be as
high as 600 mL/min (urinary pH 4.4) (Benowitz, Kuyt et al. 1983;
Rosenberg et al. 1980). In alkaline urine, a larger fraction of nicotine
is not ionized. Tubular reabsorption of nonionized nicotine results in
lower rate of excretion and reduced renal clearances as low as 17
mL/min (urine pH 7.0). When urine pH is uncontrolled, averaging
5.8, renal clearance averages about 100 mL/min, accounting for the
elimination of 10 to 15 percent of the daily nicotine intake.
Nicotine and Cottnine Blood Levels During Tobacco Use
Nicotine Levels
Plasma nicotine concentrations (or concentrations in blood, which
are similar) sampled in the afternoon in smokers generally range
from 10 to 50 ng/mL. The increment in blood nicotine concentration
after smoking a single cigarette ranges from 5 to 30 ng/mL,
depending on how the cigarette is smoked (Armitage et ah 1975;
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Herning e$ al. 1983; Isaac and Rand 1972). Peak blood levels of
nicotine are similar, although the rate of nicotine increase is slower
for cigar smokers and snuff and chewing tobacco users compared
with that for cigarette smokers (Armitage et al. 1978; Turner, Sillett,
McNicel 1977; Gritz et al. 1981; Russell, Raw, Jarvis 1980; Russell et
al. 1981) (Figure 2). Pipe smokers, particularly those who have
previously smoked cigarettes and who inhale, may have blood and
urine levels of nicotine as high as those of cigarette smokers
(McCusker, McNabb, Bone 1982; Turner, Sillett, McNicol 1977; Wald
et al. 1984).
The earliest published studies of nicotine elimination kinetics
reported half-llves of 20 to 40 min (Armitage etal. 1975; Isaac and
Rand 1972). In those studies, drug.blood levels were followed only for
30 to 60 rain, which is not long enough to determine the elimination
half-life. Thus, half-lives were based on blood levels which included
the distribution phase. When blood levels are followed for several
hours after the end of nicotine infusion, a log-linear decline of blood
levels with a half-life of about 2 hr is observed (Benowitz, Jacob et al.
1982; Feyerabend, Ings, Russell 1985).
The half-life of a drug is useful in predicting its accumulation rate
in the body with repetitive doses and the time course of its decline
after cessation of dosing. Assuming a half-life of 2 hr, one would
predict nicotine to accumulate over 6 to 8 hr'(3 to 4 half-lives) of
regular smoking and persist at significant nicotine levels for 6 to 8 hr
after cessation of smoking. If a smoker smokes until bedtime,
significant nicotine levels should persist all night. Studies of blood
levels in regular cigarette smokers confirm these predictions (Figure
5) (Russell and Feyerabend 1978; Benowitz, Kuyt, Jacob 1982). Peaks
and troughs follow the use of each cigarette, but as the day
progresses, trough levels rise and the influence of peak levels
becomes less important. Thus, nicotine is not a drug to which people
are exposed intermittently and that is eliminated rapidly from the
body. To the contrary, smoking represents a multiple dosing
situation with considerable accumulation during smoking and with
persistent levels for 24 hr of each day.
Cotinine Levels
Cotinine levels are of particular interest as qualitative markers of
tobacco use and quantitative indicators of nicotine intake. Cotlnine
is present in the blood of smokers in much higher concentrations
than nicotine. Cotinine blood levels average about 250 to 300 ng/mL
in groups of cigarette smokers (Benowitz, Hall et al. 1983; Haley,
Axelrad, Tilton 1983; Langone, Van Vunakis, Hill 1975; Zeidenberg
et al. 1977). After stepping smoking, levels decline with a halfqife
averaging 18 to 20 hr (range 11 to 37 hr). But because of the long
half-life, there is much less fluctuation in sotinine concentrations
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~. ~r. ~'~ L
Carboxyhemoglobin (percent) Blood nicotine concentration (ng/mL)
I I I I I I i
$ I I I
/ -'
/
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throughout the day than in nicotine concentrations. As expected,
there is a graduallncreasein cotinine levels during the day, peaking
at the end of smoking and persisting in high concentrations
overnight.
Intake of Nicotine
Cigarette Smoking
Nicotine intake from single cigarettes has been measured by
spiking cigarettes with ~4C-labeled nicotine (Armitage et al. 1975).
That study of eight subjects, each smoking a single filter-tipped
cigarette, indicated an intake range of 0.36 to 2.62 rag. Intake was
higher in smokers than .in nonsmokers. Intake of nicotine from
smoking a single cigarette or with daily cigarette smoking has been
estimated by methods similar to those used in drug bioavailability
studies (Benowitz and Jacob 1984; Feyerabend, Ings, Russell 1985).
Metabolic clearance of nicotine was determined after i.v. injection.
Metabolic clearance data were then used in conjunction with blood
and urinary concentrations of nicotine measured during a period of
smoking to determine the intake of nicotine. In five subjects, average
intake of nicotine per cigarette was 1.06 mg (range, 0.58 to 1.49 mg)
(Feyerabend, ]ngs, Russell 1985). In 22 cigarette smokers, 13 men
and 9 women who smoked an average of 36 cigarettes/day (range 20
to 62), the average daily intake was 37.6 rag, with a range from 10.5
to 78.6 mg (Benowitz and Jacob 1984). Nicotine intake per cigarette
averaged 1.0 mg (range 0.37 to 1.56 rag). Intake per cigarette did not
correlate with yields obtained by smoking machine using standard
Federal Trade Commission methods. This is because smoking
machines smoke cigarettes in a uniform way, using a fixed puff
volume (35 mL), flow rate (over 2 sec), and interval (every minute).
Smokers smoke cigarettes differently, changing their puffing behav-
ior to obtain the desired amount of tobacco smoke and nicotine.
Elimination Rate as a Determinant of Nicotine Intake by
Cigarette Smoking
There is considerable evidence that smokers adjust their smoking
behavior to try to regulate or maintain a particular level of nicotine
in the body (Gritz 1969; Russell 1976). For example, when the
availability of cigarettes is restricted, habitual smokers can increase
intake of nicotine per cigarette 300 percent compared with the
intake of unrestricted s~-noklng (Benowitz, Jacob, Keslowski et al.
1986).
Techniques for measuring daily intake of nicotine (Benowitz and
Jacob 1984) have been applied to study the influence of elimination
on nicotine intake. The rate of renal elimination of nicotine was
manipulated by administration of ammonium chloride or sodium
4O

bicarbonate to acidify or alkalinize the urine, respectively (Benowitz
and Jacob 1985). Compared with daily excretion during placebo
treatment (3.9 mg nicotine/day), acid loading increased (to 12
rag/day) and alkaline loading decreased (to 0.9 mg/day) daily
excretion of nicotine. The total intake of nicotine averaged 38
mg/day. Average blood nicotine concentrations were similar in
placebo and bicarbonate treatment conditions but were 15 percent
lower during ammonium chloride treatment. Daily intake of nicotine
was 18 percent higher during acid loading, indicating compensation
for increased urinary loss. The compensatory increase in nicotine
consumption was only partial, replacing about half of the excess
urinary nicotine loss. Bicarbonate treatment had no effect on
nicotine consumption, consistent with the small magnitude of effect
on excretions of nicotine in comparison to 'total daily intake.
These results seem compatible with the suggestion of Schachter
(1978) that emotional stress, which results in more acidic urine,
might accelerate nicotine elimination from the body and thereby
increase cigarette smoking. But caution must be exercised in
applying these findings to usual smoking situations. These studies
were performed under conditions of extreme urinary acidification or
alkalinization, so that the changes in renal clearance would be
maximized. Even with extreme differences in urinary pH, differ-
ences in overall nicotine elimination rate and smoking behavior
were modest. This is because renal excretion is a minor pathway for
elimination of nicotine; most is metabolized. Smaller changes in
urinary pH, such as occur spontaneously throughout the day or that
might be related to stressful events, would not be expected to
substantially influence nicotine elimination or smoking behavior.
Biochemical Markers of Nicotine Intake
Absorption of nicotine from tobacco smoke provides a means of
verification and quantitation of tobacco consumption. The general
strategy is to measure concentrations of nicotine, its metabolltes
(such as cotinine), or other chemicals associated with tobacco smoke
in biological fluids such as blood, urine, or saliva. Different measures
vary in sensitivity, specificity, and difficulty of analysis. Different
investigators have used blood or urinary nicotine concentrations,
blood or salivary or urinary cotinine concentrations, expired carbon
monoxide or carboxyhemoglobin concentrations, or plasma or sali-
vary thicoyanate (a metabolite of hydrogen cyanide, a vapor phase
constituent) concentrations as measures of tobacco smoke consump-
tion.
Relationships among daily intake of nicotine, daily exposure to
nicotine (that is, blood concentrations of nicotine integrated over 24
hr), various parameters of cigarette consumption, and different
measures of nicotine intake have been examined experimentally
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during ad libitum cigarette smoking on a research ward (Benowitz
and Jacob 1984), The best biochemical correlate to nicotine intake
and exposure in this study was a random blood nicotine concentra-
tion measured at 4 p.m. This level did not depend on when the last
cigarette was smoked. This finding is consistent with the observation
that nicotine levels accumulate throughout the day and plateau in
the early afternoon (see Figure 5). At steady state, with regular.
smoking throughout the day, there should be a reasonably good
correlation between nicotine concentrations and daily intake. Car-
boxyhemoglobin (COHb) concentrations in the afternoon were the
next best markers of nicotine intake. Also, morning (8 a.m./levels of
nicotine and COHb correlated with intake, presumably reflecting
persistence of nicotine and COHb in the blood from exposure on the
previous .day.
Although cotinine is a highly specific marker for nicotine expo-
sure, blood levels of cotinine across subjects in this study did not
correlate as closely with nicotine intake as did blood levels of
nicotine or COHb (Benowitz and Jacob 1984). This is probably due to
individual variability in fractional conversion of nicotine to cotinine
and in the elimination rate of cotinine itself.
Because of its relatively long half-life, cotinine levels are less
sensitive than nicotine levels to smoking pattern, that is, when the
last cigarette was smoked. For longitudinal within.subject studies,
the cotinine level would be expected to be a good marker of changes
in nicotine intake. Cotinine measurements have become the most
widely accepted method for assessing the intake of nicotine in long*
term gt~dies of tobacco use (see also Chapter V).
As expected by the known variation in renal clearance due to
effects of urinary flow and pH, urinary concentrations of nicotine did
not correlate well with nicotine intake (Benowitz and Jacob 1984). In
contrast, urinary cotinine, which is less influenced by urinary flow
or pH, was as good a marker as blood cotinine concentration.
Salivary and urinary cotinine concentrations correlate well (r=0.8
to 0.9) with blood cotinine concentrations (Ha]ey, Axelrad, Tilten
1983; Jarvis et al. 1984). Therefore, salivary or urine cotinine
concentrations should be almost as useful as blood levels in
indicating nicotine intake.
Analytical Methods for Measuring Nicotine and Cotinine in
Biological Fluids
Determination of nicotine concentrations in biological fluids
requires a sensitive and specific method, because concentrations of
nicotine in smokers' blood are generally in the low nanogram per
milliliter range and a number of metabolites are also present.
Cotinine concentrations in blood are generally about tenfold greater
than nicotine concentrations, and as a result, less sensitive analyti-
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cal methodology may be acceptable. Methods with adequate sensitiv-
ity for determination of nicotine and cotinine in smokers' blood
include gas chromatography (GC) (Curvall, Kazemi-Vala, Enzell
1982; Davis 1986; Feyerabend, Levitt, Russell 1975; Hengen and
Hengen 1978; Jacob, Wilson, Benowitz 1981; Vereby, DePace, Mulb
1982), radioimmunoassay (RIA) (Langone, Gjika, Van Vunakis 1973;
Castro et al. 1979; Knight et al. 1985), enzyme-linked immunosorbent
assay (ELISA) (Bjercke et al. 1986), high performance liquid chroma-
tography (HPLC) (Machacek and Jiang 1986; Chien, Diana, Crooks,
in press), and combined gas chromatograph-mass spectrometry (GC-
MS) (Dew and Hall 1978; Gruenke et.al; 1979; Jones et al. 1982;
Daeneas etal. 1985). For reasons of sensitivity, specificity, and
economy, GC and RIA are the most frequently used methods. GC-MS
is a highly sensitive and specific technique, but the •expense has
discouraged its routine use. HPLC is less sensitive than GC for
. nicotine and cotinine determination. Although recently reported
methods (Machacek and Jiang 1986; Chien, Diana, Crooks, in press)
appear to have adequate sensitivity for determining concentrations
in plasma, relatively large sample volumes are required. Concentra-
tions of nicotine and cotinine in urine are tenfold to hundredfold
greater than concentrations in plasma or saliva (Jarvis et al. 1984),
and a variety of chromatographic and immnnoassay techniques meet
sensitivity requirements.
The choice of a particular method depends on the biological fluid
to be assayed; the need for sensitivity, precision, and acoura'cy; and
economic considerations. Chromatographic methods, particularly
• those utilizing high-resolution capillary columns and specific detec-.
tors such as nitrogen-phosphorus detectors or a mass spectrometer,
provide the greatest specificity. On the other hand, immunoassay
techniques are operationally simpler, generally require smaller
samples, and may be less expensive than chromatographic methods.
A drawback to immunoassay methods is the potential for crass-
reactivity of the antibody with metabolites or endogenous sub-
stances. There is generally a good correlation between results
obtained by GC and RIA for plasma cotinine concentrations (r =0.94)
(Gritz etal. 1981; Biber etal. 1987). In an interlaboratory comparison
study (Biber etal. 1987), cotinine concentrations in smokers' urine
measured by RIA were generally higher than concentrations deter-
mined by GC, whereas in nonsmokers' urine spiked with cotinine
RIA and GC values were similar. These results suggest that nicotine
metabolites cross-react with the antibody against cotinine, at least in
some of the RIA methods.
Pharmacodynamlcs of Nicotine
General Considerations
This Section will focus on the relationship between nicotine levels
in the body and their effects on behavior and physiological function
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(pharmacodynamics). These data show how pharmacodynamic fac-
tors determine some of the consequences of cigarette smoking. Two
issues are particularly relevant in understanding the pharmacody-
namics of nicotine: a complex dose-response relationship and the
level of tolerance that is either preexisting or is produced by
administration of nicotine.
Dose-Response
The relationship between the dose of nicotine and the resulting
response (dose-response relationship) is complex and varies with the
specific response that is measured. In pharmacology textbooks,
nicotine is commonly mentioned as an example of a drug which in
low doses causes ganglionic stimulation and in high doses causes
ganglionic blockade following brief stimuiatiQn (Comroe 1960). This.
type of effect pattern is referred to as "biphasic." Dose-response
characteristics in functioning organisms (in rive) are often biphasic
as well, although the mechanisms are far more complex. For
example, at very low doses, similar to those seen during cigarette
smoking, cardiovascular effects appear to be mediated by the CNS,
either through activation of chemoreceptor afferent pathways or by
direct effects on the brain stem (Comroe 1960; Su 1982). The net
result is sympathetic neural discharge with an increase in blood
pressure and heart rate. At higher doses, nicotine may act directly
on the peripheral nervous system, producing ganglionic stimulation
and the release of adrenal catecholamines. With high doses or rapid
administration, nicotine produces hypotension and slowing of heart
rate, mediated either by peripheral vagal activation or by direct
central depressor effects (Ingeaito, Barrett, Procite 1972; Porsius
and Van Zwieten 1978; Henningfield, Miyasate, Jasinski 1985).
Tolerance
A second pharmacologic issue of importance is development of
tolerance; that is, after repeated doses, a given dose of a drug
produces less effect or increasing doses are required to achieve a
specified intensity of response. Functional or pharmacodyaamic
tolerance can be further defined as where a particular drug
concentration at a receptor site (in humans approximated by the
concentration in blood) produces less effect than it did after a prior
exposure. Dispesitional or pharmacokinetic tolerance refers to
accelerated drug elimination as a mechanism for diminished effect
after repeated doses of a drug. Behavioral tolerance refers to
compensatory behaviors that reduce the impact of a drug to
adversely affect performance. Such tolerance can occur following
intermittent exposures to a drug such that there is minimal
development of functional or dispositional tolerance.
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Most studies of drug tolerance have focused on tolerance which
develops as a drug is chronically administered. If the tolerance
develops within one or two doses, it is referred to as acute tolerance
or tachyphylaxis. If tolerance develops after more prolonged use, the
tolerance is referred to as acquired or chronic tolerance. Individual
differences in sensitivity to the first dose of a drug also frequently
exist. Those individuals who exhibit n reduced response to a specified
drug dose or require a greater dose to elicit a specified level of
response are said to be tolerant to the drug. This form of tolerance is
referred to as first-dose tolerance, drug sensitivity, or innate drug
responsiveness. For sake of clarity, this Report will reserve the term
tolerance to describe reduction in the response to nicotine during the
course of or following a previous exposure and will use acute drug
sensitivity to describe responsiveness to an initial dose.
Studies of tolerance to nicotine began in the late 19th century. In a
series of studies of fundamental importance to the understanding of
the nervous system, as well as to understanding the pharmacology of
nicotine, Langley (1905) and Dixon and Lee (1912) studied the effects
of repeated nicotine administration on a variety of animal species
and on in vitro tissue preparations. Several findings emerged which
have been widely verified and extended to other species and
responses. These include: (i) With repeated dosing, responses dimin-
ished to nearly negligible levels; (2) After tolerance occurred,
responsiveness could be restored by increasing the size of the dose; (3)
ARer a few hours without nicotine, responsiveness was partially or
fully restored.
After smoking a cigarette, people who have not smoked before
("naive smokers") usually experience a number of effects that
become generally uncommon among experienced smokers. For
example, retrospective reports by smokers indicate that initial
exposure to tobacco smoke produced dizziness, nausea, vomiting,
headaches, and dysphoria, effects that disappear with continued
smoking and are rarely reported by chronic smokers (Russell 1976;
Gritz 1980). Tolerance may also develop to toxic effects, such as
nausea, vomiting, and pallor, during the course of nicotine poisoning,
despite persistence of nicotine in the blood in extremely high
concentrations (200 to 300 ng/mL) (Benowitz, Lake et al, 1987).
A systematic analysis of the various forms of tobacco smoke
tolerance has not been carried out. There are a few studies
comparing the effects ellcited by an acute exposure to tobacco in
nonsmokers and smokers. Clark and Rand (1968) studied the effect of
smoking cigarettes of varying nicotine content on the knee-jerk
reflex and reported that high-nicotine cigarettes suppressed this
reflex to a greater degree than did low-nicotine cigarettes. This effect
was more pronounced at each nicotine dose in nonsmokers and light
smokers compared to heavy smokers. These findings suggested that
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tolerance is due to altered sensitivity to nicotine. Tolerance to
nicotine is not complete because even the heaviest smokers experi-
ence symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, and dysphoria when they
suddenly increase their smoking rates (Danaher 1977). Evidence
indicates that the majority of the psychological actions of tobacco
smoke result from nicotine (Russell 1976; Chapter VII). Thus, most of
the tolerance to effects of tobacco smoke that occurs following
chronic tobacco use is due to the development of tolerance to
nicotine.
Acute Sensitivity
Human Studies
Studies which have indicated that individuals differ in response to
tobacco smoke or nicotine have used smokers as the experimental
subjects. Consequently, whether individual differences are due to
differences in acute sensitivity to nicotine that have persisted during
chronic tobacco use or are due to differences in the development of
tolerance is unknown.
Nesbitt (1973) and Jones (1986) noted that individual smokers
differ with respect to the effects of smoking a standard cigarette on
heart rate, but it is not clear from these studies whether these
differences in responsiveness are due to differences in sensitivity to
nicotine or to differences in the dose and kinetics of nicotine.
Benowitz and colleagues (1982) observed individual differences in the
effects of i.v: injections of nicotine on heart rate, blood pressure, and
fingertip skin temperature, Differences were not explained by
differences in blood levels, indicating differential sensitivity to
nicotine.
Animal Studies
Studies using laboratory animals indicate that differences in acute
sensitivity to nicotine exist. Inbred rat and mouse strains differ in
sensitivity to the effects of nicotine on locomotor activity (Garg 1969;
B~ittig et al. 1976; Schlatter and B~ittig 1979; Hatchell and Collins
1980; Marks, Burch, Collins 1983b). Mouse strains also differ in the
direction of the effect (increased or decreased activity). The mouse
strains that differ in sensitivity to the effects of injected nicotine on
locomotor activity also differ in the magnitude of response to a
standard dose of tobacco smoke (Baer, McClearn, Wilson 1980).
Inbred mouse strains also differ in sensitivity to the effects of
nicotine on body temperature, heart rate, and acoustic startle
response (Marks, Burch, Collins 1983a; Marks et al. 1985, 1986), as
well as in sensitivity to nicotine-induced seizures (Tepper, Wilson,
Schlesinger 1979; Miner, Marks, Collins 1984, 1988). These findings
indicate that genetic factors may influence the sensitivity of rats and
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mice to the first dose of nicotine. The importance of genetically
deterr~ined differences in human sensitivity to the effects of nicotine
administered in tobacco smoke remains to be determined.
Mechanisms of Differences in Acute Sensitivity
Differences between inbred mouse and rat strains in sensitivity to
the effects elicited by a single injected dose of nicotine do not appear
to result from differences in rate of nicotine metabolism (Petersen,
Norris, Thompson 1984) or from differences in brain nicotine
concentration following intraperitoneal injection (Hatehel[ and
Collins 1980; Rosecrans 1972; Rosocrans and Schechter 1972). Thus,
rat and mouse strains differ in tissue sensitivity to the effect~ of
nicotine. Differences among mouse strains in sensitivity to nicotine
do not appear to be due to differences in the number or affinity of
brain nicotine receptors that are measured viathe binding of ~H-
nicotine (Marks, Butch, Collins, 1983b). Mouse stocks that are more
sensitive to nicotine-induced seizures do have greater numbers of
hippocampal nicotine receptors that bind zs~I-bungaretoxin (BTX)
(Miner, Marks, Collins 1984, 1986). Some of the differences in
sensitivity to nicotine between genetically defined stocks of animals
may be related to differences in the number of nicotine receptors in
specific regions of the bl'ain.
Tachyphylaxis (Acute Tolerance)
Human Studies
Systematic studies of tachyphylaxis or acute tolerance to effects of
tobacco in nonsmokers have not been reported. There is evidence
that tachyphylaxis does develop to effects of tobacco and nicotine in
humans. Smokers frequently report that the first cigarette of the day
is the best and that subsequent cigarettes are "tasteless" (Russell
1976; Henningfield 1984). Smoking a single standard cigarette after
24 hr of abstinence increases heart rate, whereas smoking an
identical cigarette during the course of a normal day fails to change
heart rate (West and Russell 1987). Fewer standard puffs were
required to produce nausea at the beginning of the day (following 8
to 10 hr of tobacco abstinence) or from high-nicotine cigarettes than
at the end of the day or from low-nicotine cigarettes (Henningiield
1984). Complete tolerance to nausea and vomiting developed over 8
hr in a woman in the course of an accidental nicotine poisoning,
despite persistently toxic blood levels of nicotine (Benowitz, Lake et
al. 1987). These findings suggest that tolerance which is lost and
regained during short periods of abstinence from tobacco is tolerance
to nicotine.
Tolerance develops very rapidly to several effects of nicotine.
Rosenberg and colleagues (1980) studied the effects of i.v. nicotine
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injections on arousal level, heart rate, and blood pressure. In these
experiments, six healthy smokers, 21 to 35 years of age, received six
series of nicotine injections spaced 30 min apart. Each series of
injections consisted of 10 2-~g/kg injections spaced 1 min apart.
Subjects reported a pleasant sensation after the first series of
injections, but this response was not observed thereafter. Heart rate
and blood pressure values remained above baseline, but there was
little increment with successive injections, despite nicotine blood
level increases which were similar to those observed after the first
series of injections. In contrast, skin temperature fell progressively
during the period of nicotine dosing, gradually returning to baseline
at the end of the study. These data indicated rapid development of
tolerance to subjective effects and heart rate and blood pressure
responses, but tolerance was not complete because heart rate and
blood pressure remained above baseline. Hennlngfield (1984) also
assessed subjective responses of human subjects after i.v. injections
with nicotine at 10-min intervals. The subjective response of"liking"
the effects of nicotine was lost after five or six injections. Benowitz
and coworkers (1982) studied the effect of a 30-min infusion of
nicotine at a rate of 1 to 2 ~tg/kg/min. Shortly after initiation of
infusion, heart rate and blood pressure increased, but the increase
did not continue even though plasma nicotine concentrations
continued to rise during the continuous infusion. Maximal cardiovas-
cular changes were seen within 5 to 10 min, whereas maximal
plasma nicotine levels were not reached until 30 min. These findings
indicate that tachyphylaxis to the effects of nicotine may develop in
humans witl~in 5 to I0 min, the time required to smoke one cigarette.
In contrast to heart rate, skin temperature (reflecting cutaneous
vascular tone) declined and rose in association with changes in blood
nicotine concentrations, showing no evidence of tolerance.
The above studies indicate rapid development of tolerance to some
(but not all) actions of nicotine in people. These studies were
performed with cigarette smokers who had abstained from smoking
the night before the study. Since significant quantities of nicotine
persist in the body even after overnight abstinence, there is probably
some persistence of tolerance. Experimental data supporting this
conclusion were obtained in a study of cardiovaseular responses to
infused nicotine in smokers following either an overnight or 7-day
tobacco abstinence (Lee, Benowitz, Jacob 1987). Heart rate and blood
pressure responses were significantly greater after more prolonged
abstinence. However, within 60 to 90 rain, the blood concentra-
tion-effect relationship in subjects after brief abstinence approxi-
mated that observed after prolonged abstinence. Thus, a significant
level of tolerance persists throughout the daily smoking cycle, but is
lost with prolonged abstinence. Tolerance, at least after abstinence
for one week, is rapidly reestablished with subsequent exp.osure.
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Animal Studies
Many studies demonstrate that acute tolerance or tachyphylaxis
develops very quickly to actions of nicotine. Barrass and cowcrkers
(1969) demonstrated that pretreatment of mice with a single i.e. dose
(0.8 mg/kg/ of nicotine resulted in an increase in the LDso (dose
which is lethal to 50 percent of animals) for nicotine. Maximal
protection was seen 5 min after the injection, but this protection
diminished steadily over the next hour. Tachypbylaxis develops to
the effects of nicotine on locomotor activity. Stolerman, Bunker, and
Jarvik (1974) noted that pretreating rats with a 0.75-mg/kg dose of
nicotine 2 hr before challenge doses of nicotine (0.25 to 4.0 mg/kg)
resulted in a shift of the nicotine dose-response curves, indicating
reduced sensitivity. The EDBo values (doses that are effective in
producing the measured response in 50 percent of animals)for
nicotine-induced decreases in locomotor activity were nearly 2.g-fold
greater in nicotine-pretreatod rats than in saline-pretreated animals.
Nicotine prctreatment also results in tachyphylaxis to the effects of
nicotine on body temperature (hypothermia) in cats (Hall 1972),
water-reinforced operant responding in rats (Stitzcr, Morrison,
Domino 1970), discharge of lateral geniculate neurons of cats
(Roppolo, Kawamura, Domino 1970), repolarization of sartorius
muscle in frogs (Hancock and Henderson 1972), blood pressure
elevation in rats (Wenzel, Azmeh, Clark 1971), contraction of aortic
strips in rabbits (Shibata, Hattori, Sanders 1971), respiratory gtimu-
lation in cats (McCarthy and Borison 1972), and gastrointestinal
contraction in squid (Wood 1969) and guinea pigs (Hobbiger, Mitchal-
son, Rand 1969). More recent studies have demonstrated that
pretreatment with as little as one dose of nicotine will attenuate
nicotine-induced elevations of plasma corticosterone (Balfour 1980)
and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) (Sharp and Beyer 1986)
levels in rats (see also Chapter liD.
The interval between the pretreatment and challenge doses of
nicotine is a critical factor that determines whether tachyphylaxis is
observed. Aceto and coworkers (1986) examined the effect of i.v.
nicotine infusion on heart rate and blood pressure in the rat.
Tolerance did not develop when the interval between pretreatment
and challenge doses was 30 rain; marked tolerance was detected
when the interval was reduced to 1 rain. However, Stolerman, Fink,
and Jarvik (1973) observed that after a single intraperitoneal dose of
nicotine to rats, acute tolerance to a second dose did not become
maximal until 2 hr after the initial injection.
Mechanisms of Tachyphylaxis
Although tachyphylaxis has been described for a wide variety of
nicotine's effects, very little is known about mechanisms. A nicotine
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metabolite may play a role in the development of tachyphylaxis.
Barrass and colleagues (1969) argued that nicotine metabolites may
block nicotine receptors and thereby antagonize nicotine's lethal
effects. This argument was made because pretreatment with nic-
otine-N'-oxide protected mice from the lethal effects of large doses of
nicotine. LD~o values were increased approximately ninefold by
pretreatment with nicotine-N'-oxide. These authors hypothesized
that this protection may involve conversion of nicotine-N'-oxlde to
hydroxynicotine. Their results indicated that injection of a reduction
product of cotinine, believed to be hydroxynicotine, gave immediate
protection, whereas maximum protection was not seen until 40 mln
after injection of nicotine-N'-oxide, Thus it appears that metabolism,
possibly to hydroxynicotine, is required for the protective action of
nicotine-N'-oxide.
Another hypothesis is that tachyphylaxis is the result of desensiti-
zation of nicotine receptors. Desensitization of the receptor involves
a conformational chan~ge that results in increased affinity of the
nicotinic receptor for agonists coupled with decreased ability of the
receptor to transport ions (Weiland et al, 1977; Sakmann, Patlak,
Neher 1980; Boyd and Cohen 1984). Desensitization of nicotinic
receptors at the motor end-plate was first described by Katz and
Thesleff (1957) and has since been studied by a large number of
investigators, using either skeletal muscle or the electric .organs of
the eel, Torpedo californica. Although tachyphylaxls has been
commonly suggested as being due to desensitization of brain
nicotinic receptors, the role of desensitization in tachyphylaxis to
specific behavioral effects of nicotine has not been studied. This is
because concentrations of nicotinic receptors in specific areas of the
brain corresponding to the behavioral effects being measured are not
high enough to use available methods.
Chronic Tolerance
Human Studie~
Chronic tolerance to tobacco and nicotine has not been studied
systematically in human subjects, but it is clear, as noted previously,
that some tolerance does develop. Tolerance is not complete;
symptoms of nicotine toxicity such as nausea appear when smokers
increase their normal tobacco consumption by as little as 50 percent
(Danaher 1977).
These findings are consistent with the observations that smokers
increase their tobacco consumption and intake of nicotine with
experience. Such escalating dose patterns may be observed for
several years after initiation of either cigarette smoking or smok-
eless tobacco use. Cigarette smokers may achieve such increases by
augmenting the number of cigarettes smoked and by increasing the
amount of nicotine extracted from each cigarette. For users of
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smokeless tobacco, switching to products with greater nicotine
delivery may also contribute to nicotine dose escalation (US DHHS
1986).
Animal Studies
Animal studies have proved useful in establishing the actual
development of tolerance to nicotine, the magnitude of such toler-
ance, and mechanisms that underlie this tolerance. The majority of
these studies have used the rat and mouse as experimental subjects.
Most of the chronic tolerance studies using the rat have focused on
the effects of nicotine on locomotor activity. Depression of locomotor
activity typically occurs following the injection of nicotine in doses
exceeding 0.2 mg/kg in drug-naive rats. Tolerance to this depression
develops following chronic treatment (Keenan and Johnson 1972;
Stolerman, Fink, Jarvik 1973; Stolerman, Bunker, Jarvik 1974). The
magnitude of this tolerance is influenced by the dose and dosing
interval Tolerance persists for greater than 90 days when nicotine is
injected chronically. Tolerance to the effects of injected nicotine on
depression of locomotor activity could also be produced with nicotine
administered in the rats' drinking water or through subcutaneously
implanted reservoirs (Stolerman, Fink, Jarvik 1973}.
Under certain experimental conditions, rats treated chronically
with nicotine exhibit an increase in locomotor activity following
nicotine challenge (Morrison and Staphensen 1972; BaA6ttig et al.
1976; Clarke and Kumar 1983a,b). A careful analysis of the response
to an acute challenge dose of nicotine demonstrated that soon after
the first dose of nicotine, depressed locomotor activity was observed;
after 40 min or more, increased locomotor activity became apparent
(Clarke and Kumar 1983b). Chronically injected rats exhibited this
enhanced activity progressively earlier postinjeetion. More recently,
Ksir and others (1985, 1987) demonstrated that chronic nicotine
injections may result in enhanced locomotor activity immediately
after nicotine injection if the rats were acclimated to the test
apparatus for 1 hr before nicotine injection. These findings indicate
that in the rat, tolerance develops to the depressant effects of
nicotine and that this tolerance uncovers a latent stimulatory action.
If mice are injected chronically with nicotine, tolerance develops to
the locomotor depressant effects elicited by a challenge dose of
nicotine (Hatehell and Collins 1977). The degree and rate of
development of tolerance appear to be influenced by the sex, as well
as the strain, of the animals. Tolerance development has been
studied by continuously infusing mice of several inbred strains with
nicotine and assessing tolerance by measuring locomotor activity,
body temperature, respiratory rate, heart rate, and acoustic startle
response following nicotine challenge. Such studies have demon-
strated that: I:1) Tolerance to nicotine increases with the nicotine
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infusion dose (Marks, Burch, Collins 1983a); (2) Tolerance is specific
for nicotinic cholinergic agonists in that nlcotine-infused animals are
not cross-tolerant to the muscarinic chollnergic agonist oxotremo-
fine (Marks and Collins 1985); (3} Maximal tolerance is attained
within 4 days following the initiation of infusion and is lost within 8
days following the cessation of infusion (Marks, Stitzel, Collins 1985);
(4) Tolerance development varies between inbred mouse strains, with
some strains exhibiting marked tolerance and other strains showing
very little (Marks, Romm et al. 1986); and (5) Mouse strains that fail
to develop tolerance to nicotine are also relatively insensitive to the
effects elicited by an acute injection of nicotine {Marks, Stitzel,
Collins 1986). More recently these investigators compared the effects
of continuous and pulse infusions of nicotine on tolerance develop-
ment (Marks, Stitzel, Collins 1987). Pulse infusion was used to
simulate the conditions obtained when tobacco is smoked. Although
the total dose infused was the same in continuously infused and
pulse-infused animals, marked differences in tolerance were seen.
The pulse-infused animals exhibited a greater degree of tolerance.
The degree of tolerance was most correlated with peak nicotine
concentrations.
Chronic nicotine administration results in tolerance to a number
of other nicotinic effects. Tolerance develops to depression of operant
responding elicited by high doses of nicotine, such that after
sufficient chronic treatment, enhanced rather than depressed oper.
ant responding is seen (Clarke and Kumar 1983c; ttendry and
Rosecrans 1982). Attenuationof the effects of nicotine on electroem
cephalogram (EEG) activity is seen in the rat following chronic
injection (Hubbard and Gohd 1975), These altered EEG responses
paralleled the development of tolerance to behavioral effects de.
scribed by these anthem as "arousal." In contrast to the findings of
Hubbard and Gohd (1975), other studies indicate that chronic
tolerance does not develop to the behavioral stimulation effect of
nicotine (Biittig et al. 1976; Morrison and Stephanson 1972; Clarke
and Kumar 1983a,c). Likewise, little or no tolerance to nicotine.
induced prostration after i.v. administration was observed after
chronic exposure in rats (Abood et al. 1981, 1984).
In addition, tolerance has been reported to develop to nicotine-
induced increases in plasma corticosterone, bat not adrenal catechol-
amine release in rats (Balfour 1980; Van Loon at al. 1987). Anderson
and colleagues (1985) studied the effects of chronic exposure to
cigarette smoke on neuroendocrine function of the rat hypothala-
mus. These researchers observed that chronic exposure to cigarette
smoke over a period of 9 days did not result in tolerance to the ability
of acute intermittent exposure to cigarette smoke to reduce serum
levels of prolactin, luteinizing hormone, and follicle stimulating
hormone.
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Mechanisms of Chronic Tolerance
Chronic tolerance to drugs may be due to an increase in the rate of
drug metabolism or to a decrease in sensitivity of the tissue to the
drug. Considerable differences exist among humans in the rate of
nicotine metabolism (Benowitz et al. 1982). Metabolism is faster
(shorter half-life) in smokers than in nonsmokers (Schievelbein et al.
1978; Kyerematen et al. 1982; Kyerematen, Dvorchlk, Vesen 1983).
The contribution of enhanced nicotine metabolism to the develop-
ment of nicotine tolerance in humans is unclear. Studies of rats
which clearly demonstrate that chronic nicotine treatment results in
tolerance to nicotine also indicate that chronic nicotine administra-
tion does not increase the rate of nicotine metabolism in rats
(Takeuchi, Kurogochi, Yamaoka 1954) or mice (Hatchell and Collins
][977; Marks, Burch, Collins 1993b). These findings indicate that
tolerance to nicotine primarily involves reduced sensitivity of target
tissues.
Chronic tolerance to nicotine may be due to alterations in brain
nicotinic receptors (see Chapter Ill for further discussion of nicotine
receptors). At least two types of nicotinic receptors exist in rodent
brain (Marks and Collins 1982). One of these receptor types may be
measured with 3H-nicotine or 8H-acetylcholine (~H-ACh) (Marks,
Stitzel et al. 1986; Martino.Bafrows and Keller 1987), while the other
type may be measured with ~sSI-bungarotoxln (BTX). The nicotine-
binding site has higher affinity for nicotine than does the BTX site
(Marks and Collins 1982). Chronic nicotine injection, once or twice
daily for approximately 7 days, increased the number of 3H-nic-
otine/~H.ACh.binding sites in the brain (Ksir et al. 1985, 1987;
Morrow, Loy, Creese 1985; Schwartz and Kellar 1983, 1985). This
increase in nicotine-binding sites appeared to correlate with the
emergence of nicotine-induced increases in locomotor activity in the
rat. Studies of tolerance to nicotine in one inbred mouse strain (DBA)
also demonstrated that chronic nicotine treatment elicits an increase
in the number of brain nicotinic receptors as measured with both ~H-
nicotine and BTX as the ligands (Marks, Butch, Collins 1983a; Marks
and Collins 1985; Marks et ah 1985, 1986; Marks, Stitzel, Collins
1985, 1986, 1987). These studies have also shown that the number of
~H-nicotine-binding sites increases at lower doses of nicotine than do
the BTX-binding sites. An increase in all-nicotine binding (Marks,
Burch, Collins 1983a) parallels development of tolerance to various
responses during chronic infusion. In chronically infused DBA mice,
tolerance acquisition and disappearance parallel the up-regulation
and return to control, respectively, of brain aH-nicetine binding
(Marks, Stitzel, Collins 1985). These findings suggest that the
increase in ~H-nicotine binding is related to the development of
tolerance to nicotine. However, further studies indicate that factors
other than receptor number must also be considered, because mouse
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strains that do not develop tolerance to nicotine also demonstrate up-
regulation of nicotinic receptors following chronic infusion (Marks et
al. 1986; Marks, Stitzel, Collins 1986).
That chronic nicotine treatment results in a decrease in response
to the drug (tolerance) and an increase in the number of nicotinic
receptors was an unexpected finding, Marks, Butch, and Collins
(1983a) and Schwartz and Kellar (1985) have suggested that chronic
nicotine treatment results in chronic desensitization of nicotinic
receptors. Chronic desensitization of the nicotinic receptor is compa-
rable to chronic treatment with an antagonist and could be the
stimulus for up-regulation of the receptors. According to this
hypothesis, there is an increase in number of brain nicotinic
receptors but a decrease in the absolute number of "activatable"
(nondesensitised) receptors: This would result in a decreased re.
sponse to nicotine (tolerance). Marks and eoworkers suggest that
inbred mouse strains failing to exhibit tolerance to nicotine, under
the procedures used by these investigators, have brain nicotinic
receptors that resensitize more rapidly than do those strains that do
exhibit tolerance.
BY treating rats chronically with the acetylcholinesterase inhibi-
ter disulfoton, Costa and Murphy (1983) have found a decrease in rat
brain ~H-nicotine binding. Disulfoton-treated rats were also tolerant
to the antinociceptive effects of nicotine. Thus, tolerance to nicotine
effects may be seen when the number of nicotinic receptors are
increased or decreased by chronic drug treatment. The observation
that tolerance to at least one effect of nicotine can be obtained by a
technique that decreases brain nicotinic receptor numbers supports
the idea that chronic nicotine treatment results in an increase in the
total number of receptors but a decrease in those that may be
activated by nicotine; that is, a high fraction of the up-regulated
receptors are desensitized.
In contrast to the studies reviewed above, some investigators have
found no change in the number or affinity of ZH-nicotine-binding
sites in the brains of rats chronically exposed to nicotine (Abood et
al. 1984; Benwell and Balfour 1985).
Other potential neurochemical explanations for tolerance to
nicotine have been considered. Several reports (Westfall 1974;
Giorguieff etal. 1977; Arqueres, Naquira, Zunino 1978; Giorguieff-
Chesselet et ah 1979) indicate that nicotine stimulates dopamine
release in vitro, and a recent study demonstrated that nicotinic
agonists are less effective in stimulating dopamine release in slices of
striatum obtained from rats that had been chronically treated with
the nicotinic agonist dimethylphenylpiperazinium (DMPP) (Westfall
and Perry 1986). These findings are consistent with the idea that
chronic nicotinic agonist treatment results in a decrease in the
absolute number of receptors that can be activated.
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Pharmacodynamics of Nicotine and Cigarette Smoking
As the foregoing review has shown, the intensity of nicotine's
effects is related to the dose given, the time since the last dose, end
the level of preexisting or acquired tolerance. Since nicotine can
produce effects that lead to further use (reinforcing effects) (Hen-
ningfield and Goldberg 1983) and can also produce effects that limit
use (aversive effects, usually at higher dose levels) (Danaher 1977),
the strength of the effect of a given dose can determine whether
more or less nicotine will be subsequently taken. Thus, factors such
as tolerance can affect the manner in which, nicotine controls
behavior (Chapter IV). Similarly, an individual's ability to develop
tolerance to the toxic actions may be critical in determining whether
smoking will occur and, if smoking is initiated, whether there will be .
an increase in the number of cigarettes consumed each day.
Pharmacodynamic considerations may help explain the pattern of
cigarette smoking throughout the day. Intervalsbetween smoking
cigarettes may be determined at least in part by the time required
for tolerance to disappear. With regular smoking there is accumula-
tion of nicotine in the body resulting in a greater level of tolerance.
Transiently high brain levels of nicotine following smoking individu-
al cigarettes may partially overcome tolerance. But the effects of
individual cigarettes tend to lessen throughout the day. Overnight
abstinence allows considerable resensitization to effects of nicotine~
and the daily smoking cycle begins again.
Pharmacodynamic observations with i.v, dosing of nicotine explain
the pattern of cardiovascular changes observed in cigarette smokers.
That brief infusions of nicotine increase heart rate to a maximum
suggests that heart rate will increase mast with the first few
cigarettes of the day, but subsequently will not vary in relation to
the amount of nicotine consumed. That only partial tolerance
develops to heart rate acceleration due to nicotine suggests that
effects on heart rate may persist as long as significant levels of
nicotine persist, including overnight. These predictions were con-
firmed in a study in which volunteer cigarette smokers smoked
either high- or low-yield nonfilter research cigarettes or abstained
from smoking (Benowitz, Kuyt, Jacob 1984). Full compensation for
the low-yield research cigarettes, which contained only small
amounts of nicotine, was impossible. Resultant nicotine blood levels
were different by fourfold. As predicted, heart rate (assessed by
continuous ambulatory electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring) in-
creased in the morning--more on smoking than nonsmoking days--
and the increase occurred with the first few cigarettes of the day.
Subsequently, heart rate followed a normal circadian pattern, but
was always higher during smoking than during abstinence. Also, as
predicted, heart rate was no different during the smoking of low-
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yield or high-yield cigarettes, despite the fourfold difference in blood
nicotine concentration.
Pharmacodynamic aspects of the actions of nicotine may explain
in part how cigarette smoking causes coronary heart disease (US
DHHS 1983). As noted before, because of the accumulation of
nicotine and its dose-response characteristics, heart rate is increased
during cigarette smoking for 24 hr a day. Plasma catecholamine
concentrations and urinary catecholamine excretion remain in-
creased as well (Benowitz 1986c), consistent with the theory that
cigarette smoking produces sympathetic neural activation 24 hr each
day. Persistent sympathetic activation could result in the following
effects: (1) Alteration in lipid metabolism, resulting in a more
atherogenic lipid profile; (2) Promotion of platelet.aggregation and
hypercoagulability; (3) Induction of vasoconstriction and coronary
spasm; and (4) Increased heart rate and myocardial con{,ractility,
thereby an increase in the oxygen demands of the heart and of
circulating catecholamines, which can promote cardiac arrhythmias.
These factors could accelerate atherosclerosis and contribute to
acute myocardial infarction in a person with preexisting coronary
atherosclerosis (Benowitz 1986a) (see also Appendix B). There is no
apparent correlation between acute coronary events and the time at
which a person smokes a cigarette, perhaps because of the persistent
effects of nicotine throughout the day.
Constituents of Tobacco Smoke Other Than Nicotine With
Potential Behavioral Effects
Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 constituents, many of
which may have biological activity (US DHHS 1983). Although
nicotine is the major pharmacologic factor which determines the use
of tobacco, other constituents may also be involved. The behavioral
effects of tobacco constituents other than nicotine are described in
the Section below and in Chapter IV, This Section focuses more on
the chemicals that may be involved, whereas Chapter IV focuses
more on cigarette smoking behavior.
Minor Tobacco Alkaloids
Most of the research on the minor tobacco alkaloids has been
directed to determining physiological effects, such as the effect on
blood pressure and other cardiovascular responses and toxicological
effects, rather than the potential for behavioral effects. The pharma-
cologic effects of alkaloids of the nicotine group have been discussed
by Bovct and Bovet-Nitti (1948) and Clark, Rand, and Vanov (1965).
Nornicotine and anabasine were found to have qualitatively similar
actions but to be less potent than nicotine. Larson and Haag (1943)
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reported that the potency of nornicotine as determined by effects on
blood pressure in dogs was about one-twelfth that of nicotine.
Nicotine analogs have been studied for discriminative stimulus
effects by using animal models (Chance et al. 1978) (see also Chapter
IV). The only chemical shown to produce a positive response in that
test system was 3-methylpyridylpyrrolidine. Recent research has
focused on binding at specific brain receptor sites. Martin and
coworkers compared binding characteristics of nicotine-related com-
pounds (Martin et al. 1986; Sloan et al. 1985). Lobeline, anabasine,
and oytisine were evaluated for effects on heart rate, blood pressure,
respiration rate, minute volume, and tidal volume (Sloan et al. 1987).
Lobeline and anabasine bound to low-affinity sites in the brain,
whereas cytisine bound only at a high*affinity site. The binding data
are consistent with the pharmacologic data, indicating that lobeline
and anabasine have different pharmacologic actions than cytlsine.
Kanne and others (1986) and Abood and Grassi (1986) evaluated two
nicotine analogs, including a new radioligand, to study brain
nicotinic receptors. Kachur and others (1996) studied the pharmaco-
logic effects of a bridged-nicotine analog (methylene bridge between
the methyl of the pyrrolidine ring and the a-position of the pyridine
ring). The magnitude of presser effect depended on the particular
enantiomer and dosage. These results emphasize that compounds
other than nicotine may act at the nicotine receptors; however, there
'may be sub~opulations of receptors to which different agonists and
• antagonists bind (Chapter III).
N-Methylated derivatives of nicotine, including nicotine isometho-
nium ion (N-methylnicotinium ion, NMN), have been shown to have
presser and neuromuscular effects in some species (Shimamoto et al.
1958). Nicotine isomethonium ion was first reported to be a
metabolite of nicotine present in smokers' urine by MoKennis and
coworkers in the 1960s, and its presence in smokers' urine has been
recently confirmed (Neurath et al. 1987). Recently Crooks and
coworkers (Cundy, Godin, Crooks 1985) have shown that only the (R)-
isomer of nicotine is converted to nicotine isomethonium ion in vitro
in guinea pig tissue homogenates or in vivo in guinea pigs.
Consequently, it is uncertain as to whether the nicotine isomethonl-
um ion present in smokers' urine arrives from the small amount of
(R}-nicotine present in tobacco smoke, or whether the human enzyme
systems have different specifications than the guinea pig enzymes.
Because little if any nicotine isomethonium ion penetrates the blood-
brain barrier (Pool 1987; Acoto et al. 1983), it would appear that this
rnetabolite could have behavioral actions only if it were formed in
the CNS. These findings emphasize the complexity of the pharmacol-
ogy of nicotine-related compounds. It can be concluded from research
on these compounds that some do bind to specific brain receptors and
may result in centrally mediated physiological changes• However,
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there is inadequate evidence to date that any of these compounds
produces either aversive or rewarding effects in human smokers.
"Tar" and Selected Constituents of Tobacco Smoke Which
Contribute to Taste and Aroma
"Tar" is used to describe the dry particulate matter without the
nicotine in tobacco smoke (Pillsbury et aL 1969). The possible role of
tar in the maintenance of the cigarette smoking habit has been
considered. Goldfarb and coworkers (1976) studied the effects of the
tar content (determined by cigarette smoking machine testing) on
the subjective reactions to cigarette smoking. Ratings of strength
were not related to the tar index of the cigarettes. The results were
interpreted as indicating that tar did not have a role in the
maintenance of cigarette smoking behavior. In a later study, Sutton
and coworkers (1982) found that when nicotine yield was held
constant, smokers of lower-tar cigarettes puffed more smoke and had
higher drug plasma levels. These results suggested that smokers
were compensating for reduced delivery of tar by inhaling a greater
volume of smoke. Because these two studies used different experi-
mental designs, it is difficult to draw a conclusion as to the role of tar
in relation to smoking behavior. However, based on knowledge about
the taste and aroma constituents of cigarette smoke, it is likely that
some of the chemicals in the tar fraction contribute to tobacco use, if
only by providing distinct sensory stimuli (Chapter VI). Consistent
with this possibility, minimal levels of tar are held by tobacco
manufacturers to be important to the taste characteristics of tobacco
smoke (Tobacco Reporter 1984).
Several thousand compounds have been isolated from tobacco and
tobacco smoke (Dube and Green 1982), and many of these may be
biologically active (IARC 1986). The precursors to the carotenoids
and diterpeniods, selected nitrogenous and sulfur constituents,
waxes and lipids, and phenolics and acids contribute to the taste and
aroma of tobacco (Enzell and Wahlberg 1980; Heekman et al. 1981;
Davis, Stevens, Jurd 1976). A number of the isoprenoid compounds
that influence the taste and aroma of smoke may be formed by
sequential oxidation, rearrangement, and reduction reactions (Davis,
Stevens, Jurd 1976). Enzell and Wahlberg (1980) described several
norisoprenoid compounds which are derived from the cyclic carat-
enoids and are important to smoke aroma. The particular taste and
aroma of a cigarette can be influenced by the selection of the grade
(quality and leaf positiofi on the plant) and type of tobacco used in
the blend.
Taste and smell receptors in the pharynx, larynx, and nose provide
the first sensory input to the smoker as he or she lights up, an
experience which is generally perceived as pleasurable (Rose et aL
1985). The taste and smell of tobacco smoke may be important
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reinforcers for tobacco smoking (Jarvik 1977)---at least following
repeated association with the reinforcing effects of nicotine adminis-
tration(Chapter VI). By such behavioral conditioning, sensory cues
provided by tar and flavor additives could come to control the
tobacco-consuming behavior of the tobacco user. Changes in smoking
patterns when brands are switched and brand selection may be a
response in part to the particular flavor and aroma of the product
(Thornton 1978).
Carbon Monoxide
The mainstream and sidestream carbon monoxide (CO) deliveries
of cigarettes are influenced by cigarette design and puffing charac-
teristics of the smokers. Depending upon these factors, the main-
stream clelivery usually ranges from 10 to 20 mg/cigarette. In a
study of 29,000 blood donors in 18 locations around the United
States, smokers were found to have median carboxyhemoglobin
(COHb) levels ranging from 3.2 to 6.2 percent (Stewart et al. 1974).
Anderson, Rivera, and Bright (1977) found the COMb levels in 50
smokers to vary from 3.9 to 14.0 percent, with the mean of 8.1
percent. The mean increment in COHb immediately after smoking 1
cigarette was 0.64 percent. COHb levels gradually decrease in blood
after cessation of smoking. Carbon monoxide is eliminated in expired
air. The rate of elimination depends on pulmonary blood flow and
ventilation. The half-life of COHb is 2 to 4 hr during daytime hours,
but as COHb is related to the level of exercise, the half-life may be as
long as 8 hr during sleep (Wald et al. 1975). For these reasons, many
smokers awaken in the morning with substantial levels of COHb,
despite not smoking overnight (Benowitz, Kuyt, Jacob 1982). Persons
smoking cigarettes with lower nicotine and CO yields have only
slightly lower levels of COHb when compared with those smoking
higher-yield products (Wald at al. 1980, 1981; Sutton et al. 1982; Hill,
Halay, Wynder 1983; Benowitz, Jacob, Yu et al. 1986).
Benowitz and colleagues (1986) studied tar, nicotine, and CO
exposure in smokers switched from their usual brand to low-, high-,
and ultra-low-yield cigarettes. This study indicated that there were
no differences in exposure comparing low- and high-yield, but tar
and nicotine exposure were reduced by about 50 percent and CO by
38 percent while smoking ultra.low.yield cigarettes. Switching from
a high to lower yield cigarette does not significantly reduce blood
COHb although switching to ultra low cigarettes has been shown to
lead to a significant reduction.
The toxic effects of high CO levels are well documented (US DHHS
1983). Some studies have tried to determine whether CO levels in the
blood similar to those observed in smokers can affect behavior. Beard
and Wertheim (1967) and Wright, Randall, and Shephard (1973)
reported performance decrements with COHb levels below 5.0
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percent; however, Guillerman, Radziszewski, and Caille (1978) found
no psychomotor performance effects at COHb levels of 7 and 11
percent. Thus, the data are inconclusive with regard to the possible
influence of CO on psychomotor performance at levels normally
encountered in smokers.
Acetaldehyde and Other Smoke Constituents
Acetaldehyde is a major constituent of tobacco smoke, with
mainstream smoke levels in commercial cigarettes ranging from 0.5
to L2 mg/cigaretto (IARC 1986). The delivery of volatile aldehydes is
influenced by cigarette design, with reductions achieved by specific
filtration and air dilution techniques. Yields over 5.9 mg have been
reported for large cigars (Hoffmann and Wynder 1977). Acetalde-
hyde is the primary metabolito of ethanol, and its toxic potency is 20
to 30 times that of ethanol. Acetaldelhyde has been suggested to
have an adverse effect on the heart (James et al. 1970). Acetaldehyde
and acrolein, another important aldehyde in the gas phase of
cigarette smoke, activate the sympathetic nervous system (Egle and
Hudgins 1974). Acetaldehyde, by releasing norepinephrine, results
in a pressor effect (Kirpekar and Furchgott 1972; Green and Egle
1983). Depressor effects occur at high doses of the aldehydes in
guanethidine-pretreated hypertensi'~e rats. Frecker (1983) indicated
that condensation products of acetaldehyde may be active on
endogenous opioid systems. Torreilles, Guerin, and Prevlero (1985)
reviewed the synthesis and biological properties of beta.carbolines,
the condensation products of tryptophan and indole alkylamines
with aldehydes. Beta-carbolines occur as plant constituents, includ-
ing minor constituents in tobacco. For example, harman (1-methyl-B-
carboline) has been identified in tobacco and tobacco smoke (Snook
and Chortyk 1984). Carbolines from other plant species have been
used as hallucinogens. The research conducted to date indicates a
potential pharmacologic effect of the aldehydes, especially with
regard to cardiovascular physiology; however, the evidence is
inadequate to determine if these volatile smoke constituents in the
doses delivered in tobacco smoke contribute to the behavioral effects
of cigarette smoking.
Summary and Conclusions
1. All tobacco products contain substantial amounts of nicotine
and other alkaloids. Tobaccos from low-yield and high-yield
cigarettes contain similar amounts of nicotine.
2. Nicotine is absorbed readily from tobacco smoke in the lungs
and from smokeless tobacco in the mouth or nose. Levels of
nicotine in the blood are similar in people using different forms
of tobacco. With regular use, levels of nicotine accumulate in
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the body during the day and persist overnight. Thus, daily
tobacco users are exposed to the effects of nicotine for 24 hr
each day.
3. Nicotine that enters the blood is rapidly distributed to the
brain. As a result, effects of nicotine on the central nervous
system occur rapidly after a puff of cigarette smoke or after
absorption of nicotine from other routes of administration.
4. Acute and chronic tolerance develops to many effects of
nicotine. Such tolerance is consistent with reports that initial
use of tobacco products, such as in adolescents first beginning
to smoke, is usually accompanied by a number of unpleasant
symptoms which disappear following chronic tobacco use.
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CHAPTER III
NICOTINE: SITES AND
MECHANISMS OF ACTIONS
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CONTENTS
Overview
Peripheral Effects of Nicotine
Central Sites of Nicotine Actions
Neuroendocrine Effects of Nicotine
Electrophysiological Effects of Nicotine
Distribution and Cerebral Metabolic Effects of Nicotine
Distribution of Nicotine
Tissue Distribution of Nicotine: Time Course
and Other Considerations
Heterogeneity of Nicotine Uptake: Microautora-
diographic and Subcellular Studies
Effects of Nicotine on Cerebral Metabolism
Nicotine Receptors
Peripheral Nicotine Receptors
Redioligand Binding to Putative Nicotine Cholinergic
Receptors in Mammalian Brain
Agonist Binding
Radioligand Binding
Antagonist Binding
Functional Significance of Nicotinic Binding Sites
High-Affinity Agonist Binding Sites
Alpha-Bungarotoxin Binding Sites
Behavioral and Physiological Studies
The Neuroanatomical Distribution of Nicotinic Bind-
ing Sites in the Brain
High-Affinity Agonist Binding Sites
Rodent
Monkey
Human
Alpha.Bungarotoxln Binding Sites
Molecular Biology
Central Nicotinic Cholinergie Receptors: Pre- or Post-
synaptic?
Presynaptic Regulation of Neurotransmitter Re-
lease
Somatodendritic Postsynaptic Actions
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Neuroendocrine and Endocrine Effects of Nicotine
Cholinergie Effects
Modulation of Catecholamine and Serotonin Activity
Effects on Serotonergic Neurons
Effects on Catecholaminergic Neurons
Stimulation of Pituitary Hormones Arginine Vasopressin
The Pro-Opiomelanocorticotropin Group of Hor-
mones
Thyroid
Adrenal Cortex
Androgens
Estrogens
Pancreas and Carbohydrate Metabolism
Electrophysiological Actions of Nicotine
Electrocortical Effects
Spontaneous Electroencephalogram
Sensory Event-Related Potentials
Cognitive Event-Related Potentials
Motor Potentials
Other Peripheral Effects Relevant to Tobacco Use
Psychophysiological Reactivity and Smoking
Psyehophy~iological Reactivity, Smoking Cessation,
and Relapse ..
Summary and Conclusions
References
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Overview
Nicotine, in tobacco smoking concentrations, is a powerful psy-
choactive drug (Domino 1973; Kumar and Lader 1981; Balfour 1984). A
wide variety of stimulant and depressant effects is observed in
animals and humans that involves the central and peripheral
nervous, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and skeletal
motor systems. These heterogeneous effects, along with behavioral
and psychological variables, result in self-administration of tobacco,
tobacco dependence, and withdrawal phenomena with abrupt cessa-
tion of tobacco smoking. This Chapter discusses sites and mechan-
isms of nicotine actions that may help to explain why tobacco
products are self-administered.
The first Section of this Chapter provides general summaries of
several major effects of nicotine in the body. Following this broad
overview, the Chapter presents.detailed discussions of sites and
mechanisms of nicotine action that may be particularly important to
understand tobacco use. Tissue distribution of nicotine, cerebral
metabolic effects, and nicotine receptor binding are reviewed. Next,
neuroendocrine and endocrine effects of nicotine are discussed.
Then, electrophysiological effects of nicotine are presented. Finally,
the effects of smoking on psychophysiologisal reactivity are discuss-
ed.
Peripheral Effects of Nicotine
Nicotine exerts its action on the cardiovascular, respiratory,
skeletal motor, and gastrointestinal systems through stimulation of
peripheral oholinerglc neurons via afferent chemoreceptors and
ganglia of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) (Ginzel 1967b).
Inasmuch as both sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia are
stimulated by levels of nicotine derived from tobacco smoking, the
end result depends on the summation of the effects of autonomic
ganglion stimulation and reflex effects. The resulting peripheral
physiological changes generally resemble sympathetic nervous sys-
tem (SNS) arousal, but there are also some effects of nicotine and
smoking that lead to physiological relaxation. For example, there is
usually an increase in heart rate and blood pressure immediately
following cigarette smoking. In addition, there is cutaneous vasocon-
striction of the distal extremities, in contrast, nicotine can relax
skeletal muscles (e.g., reduce patellar reflex) in humans and animals
via effects on Renshaw cells (Domino and Von Baumgarten 1969;
Ginzel and Eldred 1972; Ginzel 1987). But it also can enhance tension
in some muscles (e.g., trapezius muscle) (Fagerstr~m and Gotestam
1977). Nicotine in small doses can enhance respiration through
stimulation of peripheral chemoreceptors. Yet, high nicotine deses
can cause respiratory failure. (See Appendix B for a discussion of
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nicotine toxicity.) The gastrointestinal effects of nicotine are com-
plex, involving an increase in secretions and reduced motility for a
short period of time.
The peripheral actions of nicotine as a cholinergic agonist have
made it a valuable pharmacologic tool for studying nicotinic
cholinergic actions and functioning in many physiological systems.
This Chapter focuses on the mechanisms of nicotine's actions
relevant to tobacco use. Several peripheral actions of nicotine, for
instance muscular relaxation, may contribute to the habitual use of
tobacco products (see smoking and stress in Chapter VI). However,
because the central nervous system (CNS) actions of nicotine and
resulting neuroohemical and electrical effects mediate subsequent
biological and behavioral responses, a review of these actions
contributes to an understanding of the reinforcing effects of nicotine.
Central Sites of Nicotine Actions
Nicotinic binding sites or receptors in the brain have been
differentiated as very high, high, and low affinity types (Shimohama
et aL 1985; Sloan, Todd, Martin 1984; Sloan et el. 1985). In the rat
brain, when eholinergic musoarinic receptors are blocked, the
autoradiographie distribution of aH-acetylcholine (ACh) and all-
nicotine are essentially identical (Clarke and Kumar 1984; Clarke,
Pert, Pert 1984). However, these brain binding sites differ from
peripheral nicotinic receptors in ganglia and skeletal muscle.
Chronic nicotine administration results in up-regulation in region-
al rat brain aH-ACh binding sites measured in the presence of
atropine to block the muscarinio sites (Schwartz and Kellar 1985).
Up-regulation of all-nicotine binding sites also has been reported
after continuous nicotine infusions in mice (Marks, Burch, Collins
1983a). In contrast, most agonists that act on receptor sites in the
body, when given chronically, produce a reduction (or down-regula-
tion) in the number of receptors. Both Marks, Butch, and Collins
(1983b) and Schwartz and Kellar (1983, 1985) have suggested that
nicotinic cholinergic receptors undergo a functional blockade but
that sufficient recovery would allow enhanced behavioral responses
to low doses of nicotine to occur within 24 hr, as has been shown
behaviorally by Clarke and Kumar (1983) and Kslr and coworkers
(1985). This phenomenon may help to explain the tolerance to
nicotine that develops with repeated exposure. However, the time
course of changes in receptor number and other biological effects of
nicotine must be carefully compared to determine mechanisms
underlying tolerance. (See Chapter I! for additional discussion.)
Several investigators have used in vitro autoradiography to
identify all-nicotine binding sites in the rat brain. These audioradio-
graphic binding studies suggest where nicotine is acting. London,
Waller, and Wamsiey (1985) have found the most intense localization
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of ell-labeled nicotine in the interpeduncular nucleus and medial
habenula.
Cerebral metabolism studies also suggest key sites of action.
London and colleagues (1985) have reported .that nicotine stimulated
local cerebral glucose utilization (LCGU) by 139 percent over that of
the control in the medial habenula and by 59 to I00 percent in the
superior colliculus and the anteroventral thalamic and interpedun-
cular nuclei. Other areas of the brain showed moderate or no
significant changes. These effects of nicotine were blocked by
mezamylamine, a nicotinic receptor antagonist, confirming that they
acted via nicotinic receptors. Furthermore, they correlated well with
the distribution of ~H-nicotine binding in the brain except in layer
IV of the neoeortex, which showed nicotine binding but no change in
LCGU. Sites that show increased glucose utilization after nicotine
administration arc probably functionally important loci of nicotinic
actions. When nicotine binding and increased energy utilization both
occur at a given site, it is likely to be involved in nicotine's actions.
Neuroendocrine Effects of Nicotine
Some of the actions of nicotine result from the release of ACh and
other neurotransmitters, including norepinephrine (NE). Nicotinic
cholinergic agonists including nicotine, Carbachol, and 1,1-dimethyl-4-
phenylpiporasinium (DMFP) release endogenous ACh from the
presynaptic cholinergie nerve terminals in addition to stimulating
postsynaptic nicotinic receptors (Chiou 1973; Chiou and Long 1969).
Nicotinic sgonists also release ACh from rat cerebral cortical
synaptic vesicles and can release newly synthesized SH-ACh from
synaptesomes prepared from the myenteric plexus of guinea pig
ileum and from mouse cortical synapses (Briggs and Cooper 1982;
Eowen and Winkler 1984). These effects arc Ca2+-dependent and are
blocked by hexamethonium, a quarternary nicotinic receptor antago-
nist. In addition, nicotine-induced release of ACh in the hippocampal
synaptesomes is blocked by the ion channel blocker, histrionicotoxin
(Rapier et al. 1987). There is good evidence that nicotine releases
ACh by n presynaptic mechanism. In contrast, presynaptic musca-
rinic receptors, mostly of the M~-subtype, inhibit ACh release.
Nicotine administration increases the amounts of other chemicals in
the blood and brain, including serotonin, endogenous opioid peptides,
pituitary hormones, catecholamines, and vasopressin (Domino 1979;
Gilman et aL 1985; Marry and colleagues 1985). These chemicals may
be involved in reinforcing effects of nicotine (see Chapters IV, VI).
Electrophysiological Effects of Nicotine
Nicotine administration is accompanied by brain wave or electro-
encephalogram (EEG) activation in animals (Domino 1997). The EEG-
activating effects of small doses of nicotine occur in intact as well as
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brainstem-transected animals, Nicotine acts primarily directly on
bralnstem neuronal circuits to produce these effects (Domino 1967),
However, stimulation of peripheral afferents (Ginzel 1987) and
release of cateoholamines and possibly neurotransmitters and modu-
lators, such as serotonin or histamine, may enhance the direct
central effects of nicotine.
The EEG-activating effects of nicotine result in behavioral arousal
(Domino, Dren, Yamamoto 1967). In cigarette smokers, nicotine
produces sedative o:nd stimulant effects (Kumar and Lader 1981).
Aceto and Martin (1982) have reviewed the large variety of nicotine
effects on behavior including facilitation of memory, the increase in
spontaneous motor activity, nicotine's antinoeiceptive properties,
and its suppression of irritability. These behavioral and psychologi-
cal effects are discussed in Chapters IV and VI.
Distribution and Cerebral Metabolic Effects of Nicotine
Nicotine, administered by various routes, rapidly enters the brain
and also distributes to specific, peripheral organs. Nicotine produces
a distinct pattern of stimulation of cerebral metabolic activity that
suggests where nicotine acts in the brain, This Section reviews
studies on the distribution of nicotine after its administration to
experimental animals, data on the relationship between tissue levels
of nicotine and the drug's biological effects, and studies on mapping
the cerebral metabolic effects of nicotine in the rat brain.
Distribution of Nicotine
Tissue Distribution of Nicotine: Time Course and Other
Considerations
The distribution in the body of exogenously administered nicotine
has been a topic of interest for more than a century and has been
reviewed several times (Larson, Haag, Silvette 1961; Lareon and
Silvette 1968, 1971). As early as 1851, Orfila described experiments
in which he detected nicotine in various organs (e.g., liver, kidney,
lungs) and in the blood of animals after nicotine administration. In
the 1950s the development of radiotracer methods led to a reexami-
nation of nicotine distribution in the body.
Werle and Meyer (1950) found that the brain, compared with other
organs, contained the highest nicotine levels immediately after
injection of a lethal dose in guinea pigs, Tsujimoto and colleagues
(1955) found a high concentration of nicotine in the brain after the
drug was administered to rabbits and dogs, Yamamoto (1955)
observed that 1 hr after a subcutaneous (s.c.) injection of 5 mg/kg in
the rabbit, the nicotine content'was highest in the kidney. The
pancreas, ileum, ventricular muscle, skeletal muscle, lung, spleen,
cerebral cortex, omental fat, and liver showed progressively lower
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levels of nicotine at 1 hr. None of the tissues had detectable levels at
6 hr. In the dog, the highest level at 1 hr was in the kidney, followed
by the pancreas, brain, ileum, liver and omental fat, spleen, heart,
muscle, and lung.
SchmiterlSw and colleagues used radiolabeled nicotine and whole-
body autoradiography to study the distribution of nicotine in several
species (Hansson and SchmitorlSw 1962; Appelgren, Hansson,
SchmiterlSw 1962, 1963; Hansson, Hoffman, SehmiterlSw 1964;
Schmiterl~iw etal. 1965; SchmiterlSw et al. 1967). After radiolabeled
nicotine was administered, radioactivity representing nicotine and
its metabolitas was concentrated in some organs, particularly the
brain. Hansson and SchmiterlSw (1962) injected (S)-nicetine-methyl-
~4C intramuscularly or intravenously (i.v.) in mice. Within 5 mjn,
high concentrations were found in the brain, adrenal medulla,
stomach wall, and kidney. Lower concentrations were observed in
the liver, skeletal muscle, and blood, but all concentrations were
higher in tissue than in blood. Activity was high in the kidney from 5
rain to 4 hr after the nicotine injection, with the highest activity
occurring within the first hour. The adrenal medulla maintained a
high concentration at 1 hr and 4 hr after injection, but little or no
activity was observed at 24 hr. At 30 min, the levels were high in the
walls of large blood vessels and in the bone marrow. Radioactivity
disappeared rapidly from the brain.
Appelgren, Hansson, and SchmiterlSw (1962) prepared whole-body
autoradiograms of mice and cats given i.v. injections of 14C-nicetine.
An initial, heterogeneous accumulation of radioactivity occurred in
the CNS. FiReen minutes after the radiotracer injection, the cat
brain showed distinctly more intense labeling of grey than of white
matter. Also apparent was a regional distribution within grey
matter areas, particularly in the hippecampus. By 30 rain, radioac-
tivity was reduced. Studies of mice demonstrated a high concentra-
tion of label in the brain at 5 min. By 30 rain, the concentration was
high in salivary glands, stomach contents, liver, and kidneys, while
the brain was almost devoid of radioactivity. The same group also
showed the accumulation of ~4C-nicetine in the retina of the eye after
i.v. administration (Schmiterlitw etal. 1965).
Fishman (1963) reported that in rats given randomly labeled 14C-
nicotine intraperitoneally (i.p.) and killed 3 hr later, the kidney
contained the highest concentration of radioactivity, followed by the
lung, liver, brain, skeletal muscle, spleen, and heart. In the dog,
more 14C-nicetine was present in the stomach wall than in any other
tissue analyzed 3 hr after i.v. injection of radioactive nicotine.
Yamamoto, Inoki, and Iwatsubo (1967) gave mice s.c. injections of 5
mg/kg methyl-14C-nicetine. Five minutes later, they found 0.5 to 1
~g/g (wet weight) of nicotine in various brain regions, including the
cerebral cortex, superior and inferior portions of the brain stem, and
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the cerebellum. Highest levels were detected 5 to 10 rain after
injection. Maximum levels in liver and whole blood were observed 2
and 10 min, respectively, after the injection.
Yamamoto, Inoki, and Iwatsubo (1968) studied penetration of t4C-
nicotine in rat tissues in vivo and in vitro. They found that 5 mg/kg,
i.p., in male Wister rats produced the following maximum tissue-to-
blood ratios of ~4C-nlcotine activity after 10 to 20 min: kidney, 8.7;
liver, 6.7; submaxillary gland, 6.2; cerebral cortex, 3.5; brainstem,
2.4; and heart, 1.8. When they incubated tissue slices with 10-4 M ~4C.
nicotine for 30 min at 37°C, the relative uptake of the label was
similar: kidney cortex, 2.6; liver, 2.1; submaxillary gland, 2,1; and
cerebral cortex, 2,0. Penetration in slices was unaffected by uncou-
pling oxidative phosphorylation or blocking metabolic pathways,
indicating that the uptake was not by active transport, In vivo,
tlssue-to-blood ratios were greater than slice-te-medium ratios,
indicating that a process other than passive diffusion was involved.
Because the respiratory tract is a major route by which nicotine
from tobacco smoke enters the body, SchmiterlSw and eoworkers
(1965) sprayed ~4O-nicotine solution directly onto the trachea of mice.
Autoradiograms from mice killed at 2 min exhibited a high amount
of radioactivity in the respiratory tract and lungs and showed that
nicotine enters the CNS rapidly by this route as well, At 15 min,
radioactivity still persisted in the lungs, was reduced in the brain,
and appeared in large amounts in the kidneys and stomach,
Uptake and distribution of nicotine from tobacco smoke have also
been assessed. Harris and Negronl (1965) exposed mice to cigarette
smoke and extracted nicotine from the lungs (5 to 25 ~g). Mattila and
Airaksinen (1966) exposed guinea pigs to the smoke of one 4-g cigar
over a period of 40 min, with intermittent ventilation with fresh air,
and found that the same tissues which concentrated nicotine
administered by other routes also showed nicotine uptake from
smoke. Organ-to-blood ratios were lung, 2.0; spleen, 3.0; intestine,
2.9; and brain, 1.1.
The use of positron-emitting radiotracers permits in vivo estima-
tion of nicotine uptake into the brain and other organs, offering the
potential of eventually relating nicotine action in the living human
brain to behavioral and disease states. Masiere and coworkers (1976)
prepared (S)-nicotine-methyl-"C, which they administered by i.v,
injection to mice and rabbits. The time course of the radiotracer
confirmed earlier studies and showed a maximum concentration in
the 5 min following injection, except in the liver and spleen. Highest
radioactivity was in kidneys and brain, followed by liver and lungs.
The brain activity dropped rapidly, whereas the kidney concentra-
tion remained high (8 percent of injected dose) at 50 min after the
injection. External imaging by a y camera showed considerable
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radioactivity in the head, kidneys, and liver. Brain activity decreased
sharply over 1 hr, while activity remained high in liver and kidneys.
Maziere and coworkers (1979) used ~C-nicotine and positron
emission tomography (PET) in baboons and found that L~C-nicotine
readily penetrated into the brain and then dropped sharply with
time. Radioactivity was high in the temporal lobe, cerebellum,
occipital cortex, pens, and medulla oblongata. There was also a high,
stable radioactivity level in the retina, consistent with the earlier
observation that radioactivity from 14C-nicotine is found in the
retina after i,v. administration (SchmiterlSw et al. 1965).
Heterogeneity of Nicotine Uptake: Microautoradiographic and
Subcellalar Studies
Appelgren, Hansson, and Schmiterl~w (1963) used a microautera-
diographic method to study the localization of nicotine within the
superior cervical ganglion of the cat. Most of the radioactivity was
localized in the ganglion cells, with little labeling of satellite cells
and connective tissue.
SehmitorlSw and coworkers (1967), using microautoradiograms of
mouse brains after injection of ~4C-nicotine and 3H-nicotine, reported
that nicotine is concentrated in nerve cells. Brain areas with a high
density of nerve cells, such as the molecular and pyramidal cell
layers of the hippocampus and the molecular layer of the cerebel-
lum, contained high amounts of radioactivity.
Yamamoto, Inoki, and Iwatsubo (1967) studied accumulation of
14C-nicotine into subeellular fractions (nuclear, mitochondrial, nerve
ending, microsomal, soluble) of mouse brain after i.p. injection of 5
mg/kg (20 ~Ci/kg). Most of the radioactivity was in the soluble
fraction. Less than one:tenth of the radioactivity in the soluble
fraction was found in microsomes and nerve endings; however,
radioactivity levels in mierosomes were somewhat higher than in
nerve endings.
Effects of Nicotine on Cerebral MetaboBsm
Following the demonstration that °H-nicotine binds stsreoselec-
tively and specifically in preparations of rat brain (Yoshida and
Imura 1979; Martin and Aceto 1981; Marks and Collins 1982), brain
binding sites were visualized (Clarke, Pert, Pert 1984) and quantified
(London, Waller, Wamsley 1985) by light microscopic autoradiogra-
pby. However, mapping nicotinic binding sites or identifying specific
binding sites for any drug or neurotransmittor does not necessarily
mean that receptors are coupled to pharmacologic actions. An
example of nonfunctional, stereoseloctive, specific binding is that of
~H-naloxone to glass fiber filters (Hoffman, Altschuler, Fex 1981). In
addition, because the brain is a highly interconnected organ, drugs
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may produce effects in brain regions remote from their initial
receptor interactions. Receptor maps would show primary binding
sites but not sites where important secondary actions might occur.
Functional mapping procedures, such as the use of autoradio-
graphic techniques to measure rates of LCGU and regional cerebral
blood flow, are another way to determine the sites of the in vivo
effects of nicotine in the brain. The 2-deoxy-D-[1-~4C]glucose (2-DG)
method for measuring LCGU (Sokoloff et al. 1977) has been used to
demonstrate a relationship between local cerebral function and
glucose utilization under a wide variety of experimental conditions,
including pharmacologic treatments (Sokoloff 1981; McCulloch
1982). The effects of acute, s.c. i~ections of nicotine on LCGU were
examined by London and colleagues (~985, 1986) and by London,
Szikszay, and Dam (1986),.while Grtinwald, Schr6ck, and Kuschinsky
(1967) measured the effects on LCGU of constant plasma levels of
nicotine produced by i.v. infusion.
Subcutaneous injections of nicotine stimulated LCGU in specific
brain regions (Table 1, Figure 1), including portions of the visual,
limbic, and motor systems. Effects of nicotine infusion generally
paralleled those obtained with s.c. injections. The greatest increase
in response to s.c. nicotine occurred in the medial habenula. Marked
increases in LCGU were noted in the anteroventral thalamic
nucleus, interpeduncular nucleus, and superior colliculus. Moderate
increases were seen in the retresplenial cortex, interanteromedial
thalamic nucleus, lateral geniculate body, and ventral tegmental
area. No significant effects were observed in the frontoparietal
cortex, lateral habenula, or central grey matter. LCGU responses to
s.c. injection of nicotine were completely blocked by mecamylamine,
indicating the specificity of nicotine effects.
The effects of nicotine on LCGU correlate well with the distribu-
tions of 3H-nicotine binding sites (Clarke, Pert, Pert 1984; London,
Waller, Wamsley 1985). Areas such as the thalamic nuclei, the
interpeduncular nucleus, medial habenula, and the superior collicu-
lus, where there is dense labeling with ~H-nicotine, show moderate to
marked nicotine.induced LCGU increases. Areas with less specific
binding show smaller LCGU responses to nicotine, and the central
grey matter, which lacks specific ~H-nicotine binding, shows no
LCGU response. Similarly, nicotine dramatically increases LCGU in
the medial hut not the lateral habenula, reflecting different densities
of 8H-nicotine binding sites. In general, 3H-nicotine binding sites
visualized autoradiographically in the rat brain are functional
nicotine receptors. However, layer IV of the neocortex displays
significant 3H-nicotine binding, but lacks an LCGU response.
In most brain areas, significant LCGU stimulation was obtained
with 0.3 mg/kg of nicotine s.c. (London etal. 1988), a dose similar to
one used successfully in training rats to distinguish nicotine from
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TABLE 1.--R,S-Nicotine effects on glucose utilization in the
rat brain
Loea[ cerebral glucc~e utilization
(~molll00 g tlssue/minute)
Brain region Saline control Nicotin~ {1.75 mg/kg)
Frontoparietal cortex, [ayvr IV 110 ~: 8.1 I~ :c 6.5
Retrusp/enia/ eorlex, ]~¥er ~ 98 ± K5 ]9.~ #. &l L
Tha~amic n.clei
Ante~ventral 109 a. 6.6 201 ~ ~I i
It~teranteromedial IP./i ± 8~ 17~ ~. 12.3L
Lateral gerdculate body 82 ± 6,~ 106 ± 4,4*
Interpedun~uLar nucleus 99 ~ 9~ 182 ± 9.31
Medial habenu]a 70 ± 5.2 167 ± 3.7l
Superior eolllculus 72 ± 52 142 ± L6L
Central grey matter 68 ~: 4,0 77 ~. 4.3
NOTg: ~olts ~*r¢~ exprv~*d as the mearm plus or miflul it~rd deviation f0r fQUT TatS per group
~Signifi¢~*ntl~" different from ~llno vont~l {p~0.05}.
SOURCS: London ct I*L (198.5).
@
FIGURE /.--Effect of subcutaneous R,S-nlcotine (1 mg/kg, 2
min before 2-deoxyglucose) on
autoradiographic grain densities, representing
glucose utilization
NOTE: Photv~apl~ Cf x-ray film exp~ed to 20-pro brain ~¢tiovs f~o~ ©ontroi rat (A) glv~h 0,9 paint
~ium
©h[orkle tl mL/kg) m,A another mt (B) given nicotine; note the increMcd density Ifl medici hmbenu[a
(mh) and
(~¢kuius retr~flext~ {~r).
~O0"RCg: Lsn~ et ~l, (1~61.
saline in a T-maze apparatus (0.4 mg/kg, s.c.) (Overton 1969).
Nicotine-induced stimulation of LCGU in the ventral tegmentai area
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and the habeaular complex (London et al. 1985, 1986} may relate to
the reinforcing properties of the drug (see Chapter IV). These regions
of the brain have been implicated in drug- and stimulation-induced
reward systems, respectively (Wise 1980; Nakajima 1984). Additional
studies, using specific conditions under which nicotine is reinforcing,
are needed to elucidate the anatomical loci involved in nicetine-
induced reward and to identify the neurophysiological mechanisms
by which nicotine acts as a reinforcer.
Nicotine Receptors
Nicotine exerts diverse pharmacologic effects in both the peripher-
al nervous system (PNS) and CNS. The peripheral actions of nicotine
are important, and some may reinforce the self-administration of
nicotine. For example, stimulation in the trachea (Rose et al. 1984)
seems to be involved in some of the pleasurable effects of smoking.
Skeletal muscle relaxation and electrocortical arousal, both stimu-
lated by actions of nicotine in the lung (Ginzel 1967a,b, 1975, 1987),
may contribute to. habitual tobacco use (Chapter VI). However, it is
generally believed that the central actions of nicotine are of primary
importance in reinforcing tobacco use (Chapter IV). In animals, the
neuropsychopharmacologic effects of this drug are, with few if any
exceptions, mediated through central sites of action. These effects
are likely to contribute to the drug's reinforcing properties in
animals and humans (Clarke 1987b). In addition, the effects of
nicotinic antagonists on tobacco smoking in humans (Stolerman et
aL 1973) and in rhesus monkeys <Glick, Jarvik, Nakamura 1970)
suggest a central site of reinforcement, but do not rule out a
peripheral site. To understand these actions, it is important to know
exactly where nicotine acts in the body. This Section discusses
evidence for nicotine receptors.
Peripheral Nicotine Receptors
In the mammalian PNS, nicotine and muscarine mimic different
actions of ACh by acting at different types of cholinergic receptors.
Nicotinic cholinergic receptors (nAChRs) have been subdivided
according to location and sensitivity to nicotinic antagonists. Recep-
tors of the C6 or "ganglionic" type are found principally at
autonomic ganglia, in the adrenal medulla, and at sensory nerve
endings; nicotinic cholinarglc transmission in autonomic ganglia is
selectively blocked by hexamethonium and certain other compounds.
Receptors of the "neuromuscular" type (sometimes referred to as
C10 type) are located on the muscle endplate, where transmission is
selectively blocked by compounds such as decamethonium and alpha-
bungarotoxin (a-BTX).
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Higher doses of nicotine are required to stimulate nAChRs in
skeletal muscle than at autonomic ganglia. Ganglionic nAChRs
appear to be more sensitive than their neuromuscular counterparts,
not only to the stimulant but also to the desensitizing actions of
nicotine (Paten and Savini 1968). Doses of nicotine obtained by
smoking cigarettes do not appear to affect the muscle endplate
directly. Therefore, if the CNS were to possess both types of nAChR,
doses of nicotine obtained by normal cigarette smoking might affect
only the C6-recoptor population. Accordingly, many of the central
effects of nicotine in vivo and in vitro are reduced or •blocked by
nicotinic antagonists that are C6-zeloctive in the periphery. The
most widely used C6-selective antagonist is mecamylamine, which
passes freely into the CNS after systemic adminisi~ration. Mecamyla-
mine antagonizes actions of nicotine in the bl'ain and spinal cord, as
revealed by behavioral (Collins et al. 1986; Goldberg, Spealman,
Goldberg 1981) and electrophysiological experiments (Ueki, Koketsu,
Domino 1961) and also by studies of neurotransmitter release (Hery
et al. 1977; Chesselet 1984). There have been few attempts to
determine whether these central nicotinic actions are also blocked
by neuromuscular antagonists, while several studies support the
existence of central C6 nAChRs (Aceto, Bentley, Dembinski 1969;
Brown, Docherty, Halliwell 1983; Canlfield and Higgins 1983; Egan
and North 1986).
The search for putative central a-BTX nAChRs has been hindered
by several factors, including the central convulsant actions of a-BTX
antagonists (Cohen, Morley, Snead 1981) and the probable need to
deliver locally high concentrations of nicotine. Nevertheless, several
studies have demonstrated actions of nicotine or cholinergic agonists
that can be reduced or blocked by a-BTX, which acts selectively at
neuromuscular nAChRs (Zatz and Brownstein 1981; Farley et al.
1983; de la Garza et al. 1987a).
Radioligand Binding to Putative Nicotine Cholinergic
Receptors in Mammalian Brain
Many receptors for neurotransmitters in the brain have been
identified through the use of radiolabeled probes (radioligands).
Attempts to label putative brain nAChRs have used compounds with
known potency at peripheral sites (see Table 2l.
Agonist Binding
The stereaspecific, saturable, and reversible binding of 8H-nicotine
to rodent brain is well-described (Romano and Goldstein 1980; Marks
and Collins 1982; Costa and Murphy 1983; Benwen and Balfour
1985a; Clarke, Pert, Pert 1984). Most studies have demonstrated the
existence of a population of high-affinity binding sites (reflected by a
dissociation constant in the low nanomolar range) that is potently
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TABLE 2.--RadioBgands for putative nicotinic cholinergic receptors in mammals
Functional
Antagonists Bind an~gonbsm S~tes examined
Agomsls
Iz~I-BTX Yes Yes Muscle endptate
Yes Yes Autonomic ganglia, splna] cord
Yes Ye~ Stain ~certaln sites onlyP
I~[-nala toxin Yes Yes Muscle enciplate
Yes NDj Brain
JH,dTC ND yes Muscle. spinal cord. ganglia
yes Y~s Dram
~H-DHBE NI) Yes Muscle, autonomic ganl~[ia
Yes Yes Brain, spiaal cord
N~uruga~oxin ND No Muscle endplate
ND Yes AutonQmic ganglia
Yes Yes Brain ~inhibit~ ~H-nicolinel
~ H-nicotine
J H.rnet hyl.car bacho]
~H ACh Lwith e~cess
nl u~ca rlnl¢ an tagon ~sl
and AChE inh~bitorp
'NDffino data¸
inhibited by nicotinic agonists including ACh. In contrast, most
nicotinic antagonists have very low affinity for this site. Binding
with similar characteristics has been reported in rat brain ti~ue
with 3H-methyl-sarbachol (Abood and Grassi 1986; Boksa and
Quirion 1987) and with ~H-ACh in the presence of excess atropine to
prevent binding to muscarinic receptor sites (Schwartz, McGee,
Kellar 1982).
In the presence of atropine, tritiated nicotine and 3H-ACh proba-
bly bind to the same population of high-affinity sites in rat brain.
Thus, the two radioligands share the same neuroanatemical distribu.
tion of binding (Clarke, Schwartz et al. 1985; Marks et al. 1986;
Martino-Barrows and Keller 1987). Binding of both ligands is
inhibited with similar potency by a range of nicotinic agents, is up-
regulated by chronic nicotine treatment in vivo, is down-regulated by
chronic treatment with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, and is dimin-
ished by disulfide reducing agents in vitro (Marks et al. 1986;
Martino-Barrows and Kellar 1987; Schwartz and Kellar 1983).
Although less well studied, it appears that sites labeled by 3H-
rnethyl-earbaehol are the same as those labeled by 3H-ACh and all-
nicotine (Abood and Grassi 1986; Boksa and Quirion 1987). High-
affinity nicotine binding sites have been found in brain tissue of mice
(Marks and Collins 1982), rats (Romano and Goldstein 1980),
monkeys (Friedman et al. 1985), and humans (Shimohama et al.
1985; Flynn and Mash 1986; Whitehouse et el. 1986).
Some investigators have reported a second class of sites which are
characterized by lower binding affinity and higher capacity for 3H-
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nicotine. With no demonstrated differential anatomical distribution
or stereoselectivity (Romano and Goldstein 1980; Marks and Collins
1982; Benwell and Balfour 1985b), these low-affinity sites are of
questionable pharmacologic significance, but may be the result of
post mortem proteolysis (Lippiello and Fernandes 1986). Careful
analysis of ~H-nicotine binding conducted in the absence of protease
inhibitors has revealed the existence of five affinity sites or states
(Sloan, Todd, Martin 1984). Functional studies (Martin et al. 1986)
suggest that some of these different sites may represent in vivo sites
of action for nicotine, although it is not clear which if any would be
activated by nicotine doses obtained from typical cigarette smoking.
Radioligand Binding
Many receptors of different nicotine binding affinities have been
reported. ]t is unclear whether these reflect different conformational
states or binding sites of a single type of receptor, distinct receptor
populations, or a single type of high-affinity site which has under-
gone proteolytic degradation. Preliminary evidence supports the
existence of distinct receptor subtypes labeled by agonists. Two
components of high-affinity all-nicotine binding, differing in their
affinity for neosurugutexin, can be distinguished in rat brain. The
relative proportion of these two components differs in different
regions of the rat brain, suggesting that they are physically distinct
receptors (Yamada et al. 1985).
Antagonist Binding
Most studies of nicotine binding in mammalian brain have used
radioiodinated a-BTX (~2~I-BTX), which binds with high affinity and
in a saturable manner to sites in mammalian brain (Schmidt, Hunt,
Polz-Tejera 1980; Oswald and Freeman 1981). This binding is
selectively inhibited by nicotinic agents, including nicotine and ACh.
Cobra (naja) alpha-toxin, like a-BTX, is a selective neuromuscular
blocker in the mammal, and appears to label the same sites as a-BTX
in mammalian brain. Binding is potently inhibited by unlabeled a-
BTX and has a regional distribution resembling that of '~U-BTX
binding (Speth etal. 1977). The antagonist dihydro.beta-erythroidine
(DHBE) binds to two sites in rat brain, but the regional distribution
of binding differs from that of ~z~I-BTX (Williams and Robinson
1984). DHBE acts with similar potency at both types of peripheral
nAChR in vivo. It is not clear whether 3H-d-tubocurarine binding is
selectively inhibited by nicotinic agents. In rat brain, '*eI-BTX binds
to a distinct population of sites that are not labeled with high affinity
(nanomolar kD) by tritiatsd nicotinic agonists. Radioiodinated a-
BTX sites have a different nouroanatemical distribution (Marks and
Collins 1982; Schwartz, McGee, Kellar 1982; Clarke, Schwartz etal.
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1985) and can be physically separated from tritiated agonisL binding
sites by affinity chromatography (Schneider and Betz 1985; Wonna-
cott 1986), This type of study helps to determine the location and
numbers of nicotine binding sites.
Functional Significance of Nicotinic Binding Sites
High-Affinity Agonist Binding Sites
Brain sites which bind ~H-ACh and 8H-nicotine with high affinity
represent nAChRs that respond in some ways like the C6 type of
receptor found in the periphery (Clarke 1987a). Studies using the 2-
DG technique have revealed that the neuroanatomical pattern of
cerebral activation following the systemic administration of nicotine
in rats is strikingly similar to Ahe distribution of high-affinity agonist
binding demonstrated autorediographically (London et al. 1985;
Grunwald, Schrok, Kuschinsky 1987). Pretreatment with mecamyla-
mine blocks the effects of nicotine on LCGU, suggesting' that
putative ganglionic (C6-type} receptors in the brain are associated
with high-affinity agonist binding.
Most of nicotine's actions on central receptors are blocked by the
C6-seleetive antagonist mecamylamine, The relevant nAChRs are
probably those which are labeled with high affinity by tritiated
agonists. However, the absence of high-affinity agonist binding sites
in PC12 cells (derived from a pheochromocytoma cell line) known to
express C6-type receptors (Kemp and Morley 1986) indicates that
although central and ganglionic nAChRs have pharmacologic simi-
larities, they may not be identical at the molecular level.
High-affinity agonist binding sites are relevant to long-term effects
of human tobacco smoking. Recently, Benwell, Balfour, and Ander-
son (in press) observed that the density of high-affinity 3H-nicotine
binding in post mortem human brain is higher in smokers than in
nonsmokers. The increased density of sites in smokers is consistent
with studies in animals that show that chronic treatment with
nicotine leads to an increased number of nicotinic receptors in the
brain (Schwartz and Kellar 1983; Marks, Butch, Collins 1983b).
Alpha-Bungarotoxin Binding Sites
Although a-BTX does not block nicotinic actions in all areas of the
CNS (Duggan, Hall, Lee 1976; Egan and North 1986), there are
several reports of antagonism (Zatz and Brownstein 1981; Farley et
al. 1983; de la Garza et al. 1987a). In the rat cerebellum, locally
applied nicotine alters single-unit activity in a manner dependent on
cell type: nicotine excites interneurons but inhibits Purkinje cells.
Both actions are directly postsynaptic (de la Garza et al. 1987, in
press(b)). The inhibitory effects of nicotine are blocked by hexame-
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thonium but not by mBTX, which does block the excitatory effects
(de la Garza et al., in press(n)).
Strain differences exist in mice in the physiological and behavioral
effects of nicotine, in the devdlopment of tolerance to these effects,
and in the regional distribution of ~I.BTX binding density (Marks,
Burch, Collins 1983a; Marks, Stitzel, Collins 1986). The genetically
determined variation in response is not readily explained by
differences in brain nicotinic receptors. However, a classical genetic
analysis indicates that the density of ~26I-BTX binding sites in mouse
hippocampus correlates with susceptibility to seizures induced by
high doses of nicotine (Miner, Marks, Collins 1984). These and other
considerations (Clarke 1987a) suggest that ~2~I-BTX may label a
subtype of nAChR in the brain and that this receptor is pharmaco-
logically akin to the nAChR found in muscle.
Although ~I.BTX binding sites are found in human brain, the
available evidence suggests that nicotine at doses obtained from
cigarette smoking does not activate this population of brain nAChRs.
Rather, the pattern of neuronal activation that follows the in vivo
administration of nicotine in animal experiments, even in doses far
greater than these likely to occur during smoking, resembles the
neuroanatomical distribution of high-affinity agonist binding sites
(London et al. 1985; Grunwald, Sehrok, Kuschinsky 1987). However,
this issue is not conclusively resolved, and a potential role for
bungarotoxin binding receptors in mediating effects of smoking
cannot be completely excluded.
Behavioral and Physiological Studies
The effects of mecamylamine on several responses elicited by
nicotine in mice have been examined (Collins et al. 1986}. The
responses are of two major classes: those blocked by low doses of
mecomylamine (inhibitory concentrations for 50 percent of mice
tested (ICso <0.1 mg/kg)) (seizures and startle response) and these
blocked by higher doses (ICso approximately 1 mg/kg) (effects on
respiratory, heart rate, body temperature, and Y-maze activity).
Strain differences are also apparent in the sensitivity to mecamyla-
mine blockade. These findings are consistent with the existence of at
least two types of central nAChR.
The Neuroanatomical Distribution of Nicotinic Binding
Sites in the Brain
High.Affinity Agonist Binding Sites
Rodent
Autoradiographic maps of high-affinity nicotinic binding sites in
rat brain are essentially identical for ~H-nieotine, ~H-ACh, and ZH-
methyl-carbaehol (Clarke, Pert, Pert 1984; Clarke, Schwartz et al.
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1985; London, Waller, Wamsley 1985; Boksa and Quirion 1987).
Dense labeling is observed (1) in the medial habenula and interpe-
duncular nucleus, which appear to belong to a common cholinergic
system; (2) in the so-called specific motor and sensory nuclei of the
thalamus and in layers III and IV of cerebral cortex with which they
communicate; (3) in the substantia nigra pars compacta and ventral
tegmental area, where labeling is associated with dopaminergic cell
bodies (Clarke and Pert 1985); and (4) in the molecular layer of the
dentate gyrus, the presubicuium, and the superficial layers of the
superior colliculus. Labeling is sparse in the hippocampus and
hypothalamus.
Monkey
The autoradiographic distribution of high-affinity SH-nicotine
binding in rhesus monkey brain is similar to that in the rat
(Friedman et al. 1985; O'Neill et al. 1985). Dense labeling has been
noted in the anterior thalamic nuclei and in a band within cerebral
cortex layer III. The latter band is densest and widest in the primary
sensory areas. Several other thalamic nuclei are moderately labeled,
but as in the rat, the label is sparse in the midline thalamic nuclei.
In contrast to findings for the rat, the medial habenula appears
unlabeled.
Human
High.affinity agonist binding has not been mapped autoradio-
graphically in human brain. However, assays of a few dissected brain
areas suggest the following pattern: nucleus basalis of Meynert >
thalamus > putamen > hippocampus, cerebellum, cerebral cortex,
and caudate nucleus (Shimohama et al. 1985). Two affinity sites for
3H-nicotine have been detected, and the regional distribution
observed reflects the presence of both sites.
Alpha.Bungarotoxin Binding Sites
Because ~H-BTX sites may not be relevant to tobacco smoking,
they will be discussed only briefly here. There are clear differences of
regional distribution not only between mice and rats, but also
between different strains of mice (Marks et al. 1986). The autoradio-
graphic distribution of ~2H-BTX labeling in rat brain is strikingly
different from the pattern of ~H-agonist labeling, with highest site
density in hippocampus, hypothalamus, and superior and inferior
colliculi (Clarke, Schwartz et al. 1985). An attempt to map ~H-BTX
binding in human brain was hampered by a high degree of
nonspecific binding, with diffuse specific labeling in the hippocam-
pus and cerebral cortex (Lang and Henke 1983).
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Molecular Biology
Goldman and colleagues have mapped regions in the brain which
contain cell bodies expressing RNA that codes for putative nAChRs.
The RNA identified is homologous to eDNA clones encoding the
alpha subunits of the muscle nACbR and a putative neuronal
nAChR (Goldman et al. 1988; Goldman et al. 1987). These and
related findings show that a family of genes exists that codes for
proteins similar to, but not identical with, the muscle nAChR. The
functional role of these putative nAChR subtypes in the CNS is not
clear.
Central Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptors: Pre- or
Postsynaptic?
Presynaptic Regulation of Neurotransmitter Releaze
The release of ACh from some nerve terminals in the CNS (Rowell
and Winkler 1984; Beani et el. 1985) and periphery (Briggs and
Cooper 1982) is increased by activation of presynaptic nicotinic
"autoreceptors." Preliminary evidence from lesion experiments
suggests that some nicotinic autorecepters in the brain may be high-
affinity ~H-nisotine binding sites (Clarke et al. 1986).
Nicotine also modulates the release of certain other neurotrans-
mitters by acting at receptors located on nerve terminals. This form
of regulation has been shown for dopaminergic, noradrenergic, and
serotonergic terminals (Starke 1977; Chceselet 1984). Lesion studies
suggest that these recepters are labeled by 8H-agonists (Schwartz,
Lehmann, Kellar 1984; Clarke and Pert 1985; Prutsky, Shaw,
Cynader 1987).
Somatodendritic Postsynaptic Actions
Much of ~H-agonist labeling probably represents nAChRs located
on neuronal cell bodies or dendrites. For example, nicotine excites
neurons postsynaptieany in the medial habenula, locus cceralens,
and .interpoduncular nucleus, all areas of moderate to dense 3H-
agonist binding (Brown, Docherty, Halliwell 1983; Egan and North
1986; McCormick and Prince 1987).
Neuroendocrlne and Endocrine Effects of Nicotine
Nicotine has direct and indirect effects on several neuroendocrine
and endocrine systems (Balfour 1982; Clarke 1987a; Hall 1982), This
Section reviews research on the effects of nicotine in animals and
humans that are relevant to understanding cigarette smoking.
Nicotine effects on cholinergic and noncholinergic nicotinic recep-
tors, as well as on the release of cetacholamines, monoaminas,
pituitary hormones, cortisol, and other neuroendocrine chemicals,
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are discussed. Effects on single neuroregulators are emphasized, but
it is important to recognize that there are extensive interrelation-
ships among these substances (Tuomiste and Mannisto 1985).
Nicotine has effects on peripheral endocrine as well as on central
neuroendocrine functions. In the early 1900s researchers discovered
that nicotine stimulated autonomic ganglia (ganglia were painted
with tobacco solutions), inducing such effects as the release of
adrenal catecholamines (Larson, Hang, Silvette 1961). As the health
consequences of cigarette smoking have become clearer, many
investigators have sought to determine tobacco's effects on the
endocrine system, with the possibility that understanding such
effects may help to explain smoking behavior. Nicotine is regarded
as the major pharmacologic agent in tobacco and tobacco smoke
responsible for alterations in endocrine function. However, there has
not been a systematic evaluation of the effects of metabolites of
nico$1ne or constituents of tobacco other than nicotine on the
endocrine system.
The functional significance of nicotine.induced perturbations in
hormonal patterns and the role of neuroregulators in smoking are
poorly understood. Extensive literature using nicotinic agonists and
antagonists indicates relationships between cholinergic activity and
particular behavioral effects ¢Henningfield et el. 1983; Kumar,
Reavill, Stelerman, in press). Similar strategies have been employed
to explore the contributions of catechelamines to smoking-related
behavior. However, the exploration of the importance of neuroregu-
Inters in the reinforcement of cigarette smoking is still at an early
stage. • •
Cholinergic Effects
Nicotine has cholinergic effects in the PNS and CNS. Nicotine is a
eholinergie agonist at peripheral autonomic ganglia and somatic
neuromuscular junctions at low doses and becomes an antagonist at
high doses (Voile and Koelle 1975). Nicotine also releases ACh in the
cerebral cortex (ArmlCage, Hall, Morrison 1968; Eowell and Winkler
1984) and in the myenteric plexus of the peripheral ANS (Briggs and
Cooper 1982). Balfour (1982) has suggested that cortical arousal (see
Electrophysiological Actions of Nicotine for a detailed discussion) is
mediated by ACh release but that behavioral stimulation (see
Chapter IV) either is not mediated by ACh release or does not
depend on the action of ACh at a muscarinie receptor.
Studies involving intracerebral administration of nicotine have
been used to determine the locl of nicotine's action (Kammerling et
el. 1982; Wu and Martin 1983). The injection of nicotine into the
cerebral ventricles of cats, dogs, and rats produces a variety of effects
including changes in cardiovascular activity, body temperature,
respiration, salivation, muscle reflex tone, and electrccortical indices
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of sleep and arousal; the direction and duration of effects depend on
dosage and on baseline response parameters (Hall 1982).
Nicotine's cholinerglc actions can affect other neuroregulaters in
the body (Andersson 1985). Nicotine stimulates NE release in the
hypothalamus by a Ca2+-dependent process that can be inhibited by
prior administration of hexamethonium or ACh (Hall and Turner
1972; Westfall 1974). The mechanism resembles nicotine's effects on
peripheral adrenergic nerve terminals (Westfall and Brasted 1972).
At high dose levels, nicotine stimulates NE release by displacing it
from vesicle stores at sites outside the hypothalamus (Balfour 1982).
These actions are relevant to understanding the reinforcing effects
of nicotine. For example, using drug discrimination procedures,
Rosecrans (1987) has demonstrated that intact central NE and
dopamine (DA) function were required to elicit the cue properties of
nicotine.
Intravenous administration Of nicotine medulates the release of
both neurohypophyseal and adenohypophyseal hormones (Bisset et
ah 1975; Hall, Francis, Morrison 1978). Hifihouse, Burden, and Jones
(1975) found that the in vitro application of ACh to the hypophysio-
tropic area of the rat caused a significant increase in the basal
secretion of corticotropin-releasing hormone (as measured by bioas-
say), which in turn controls, via the anterior pituitary, the release of
the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) group of hormonas-13-endorphin,
~-lipotropin, melanocyte-stimulating hormone-releasing factor, and
adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) (Meites and Sonntag 1981).
The humoraI mechanism for the release of vasopressin has been
traced from the medulla to the paraventricular nuclei of the
hypothalamus (Bisset et el. 1975; Castro de Souza and Roche e Silva
1977). Similarly, Risch and colleagues (1980) have demonstrated a
cholinergie mechanism for the release of ~-endorphin.
Modulation of Catecholamine and Serotonin Activity
Dale and Laidlaw (1912) found that the presser response of the cat
to nicotine was due in part to the release of epinephrine from the
adrenal glands. Over the past 75 years, a large body of research has
confirmed and further investigated this phenomenon. Stewart and
Rogoff (1919) quantified the effect of nicotine on adrenal epinephrine
release. Kottegeda (1953) observed that nicotine releases catoehol-
amines from extra-adrenal chromaffin tissues. Watts (1961) demon-
stratod the effect of smoking on adrenal secretion of epinephrine.
Hill and Wynder (1974) reported that increasing the nicotine content
in cigarette smoke progressively increased the serum concentration
of epinephrine, but not NE. Winternitz and Quillen (1977) found that
the excretion of urinary eatecholamines tended to be higher on
smoking days than on nonsmoking days. Several recent studies have
focused on the role of nicotine and the mechanisms involved in the
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release of cateeholamines from cultured chromaffin cells (Forsberg,
Rojas, Pollard 1986). Earlier experiments by Douglas and Rubin
(1961), using denervated perfused cat adrenal glands, indicated that
nicotine augments eatecholamine release from chromaffin cells by
promoting an influx of extracellular calcium. Forsberg, Rojas, and
Pollard (1986) suggested that nicotine-induced catecholamine secre-
tion may be mediated by phosphoinositide metabolism in bovine
adrenal chromaffin cells.
The anatomical localization and importance of biogenic mono-
amines such as serotonin (5-HT [5-hydroxytryptamine]), DA, and NE
have been the subject of intense research for the past 30 years. The
classic studies of Dahlstrom and Fuxe (1966} revealed that neurons
containing these amines were localized in speclfic-ascending projec-
tion systems; descending monoaminergie neurons have also been
described. The physiological integrity of these systems was further
demonstrated by Aghajanian, Rosecrans, and Sheard (1967), who
observed that stimulation of 5-HT cell bodies localized in the.
midbrain raph/nucleus released 5-HT from nerve endings located in
the more rostral forebrain. The recognition that these amine systems
constitute a unique interneuronal communication system has played
a central role in understanding underlying neurochemical and
behavioral mechanisms.
The chollnergic system has undergone a similar analysis (Fibiger
1962) but the delineation of specific cholinergic pathways has been
more difficult 'becaus~ no histechemical method has been available
for ACh.' It does appear, however, that the ehollnergie system is
similarly organized and interacts with specific biogenic amine
pathways. For example, Robinson (1983) has clearly shown that both
5-HT and DA systems exert tonic inhibitory control over ACh
turnover in both the hippocampus and frontal cortex regions.
Lesions of the medial raph~ nuclei increase the ACh turnover rate in
hippocampal sites, while lesions of the dorsal raphb elicit a similar.
effect in frontal cortical areas. Evidence of DA control comes from
the observation that the catecholamine neurotexin, 6-OHDA, when
injected into the DA-rich septal area, facilitated hippocampal ACh
turnover.. The research of Kellar, Schwartz, and Martino (1987) and
others also suggests that nicotinic receptors may occupy a presynap-
tic site on select DA and 5-HT nerve endings. Westfan, Grant, and
Perry (1983), using a tissue slice preparation, have shown that the
DMPP-induced stimulation of nicotinic receptors in the striatum will
facilitate the release of both 5-HT and DA. This preparation is devoid
of cell bodies or 5-HT- and DA-eontaining axon terminals, suggesting
that these nicotinic eholinergic receptors are primarily presynaptic.
Further, hexamethonium, but not atropine, attenuated nicotine-
induced amine release, confirming that these effects are nicotinic in
nature.
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Nicotine may have simultaneous actions on many types of
neurons. Even though only one kind of receptor may be stimulated,
either activation or inhibition of a particular 5-HT, NE, or DA
neuron may be the ultimate outeome. Conversely, the activity of
specific cholinergic neurons may also be controlled by one of these
biogenie-amine-centaining projection systems. Nicotine appears to
produce its discriminative stimulus effect in at least one major brain
area, the hlppocampus. This site is rendered insensitive if DA
neurons innervating this area are destroyed (Rosecrans 1987), The
interrelationships of these amine pathways are important to under-
stand nicotine's effects on behavior and its effects on the neuroendoc-
rine system because of the central role that these amine systems
play in the hypothalamic control of the pituitary.
Effects on Serotonergic Neurons
Research evaluating the relationship between nicotine and 5-HT
has involved several different approaches. Hendry and Roseerans
(1982) compared the effects of nicotine on conditioned and uncondi-
tioned behaviors in rats selected for differences in physical activity
and 5-HT turnover. Balfour, Khuller, and Longden (1975) observed
that acute doses of nicotine were capable of attenuating hippseampal
5-HT turnover, an effect specific to the hippocampus. Fuxe and
colleagues (1987) did not observe any acute changes in 5-HT function
following acute nicotine dosing but did'observe a significant reduc-
tion of 5-HT turnover following repeated doses (3 x 2 mg/kg/hr). This
effect, however, was suggested to be due to cotinine, the primary
metabolits of nicotine.
In addition to attempts to correlate 5-HT function with some
pharmacologic effect of nicotine, investigators have evaluated poten-
tial links between 5-HT and neuroendoerine function. Balfour,
Khuller, and Longden (1975) showed a relationship between 5-HT
and nicotine's ability to induce the release of plasma corticcetsrone,
presumably by activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis. Following
acute nicotine injections in the rat, a reduction in 5-HT turnover
correlated with an increase in plasma eorticosterone. Rats exhibited
tolerance to pituitary activation fallowing repeated nicotine doses,
but not to the attenuation of hippocampal 5-HT turnover. Stress
antagonized nicotine-induced reductions of hippoeampal 5-HT. Also,
nicotine was reported to inhibit the adaptive response to adrenocerti-
cal stimulation fallowing chronic stress (Balfour, Graham, Vale
1986). One interpretation of these data is that nicotine can modify
how rats adapt to stress, which may be mediated by changes in
hippocampal 5-HT function. At this point, however, it is difficult to
draw firm conclusions concerning how nicotine affects 5.HT neurons
and whether this neurotransmitter is involved in any of nicotine's
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effects on neuroendocrine function, Hippocampal 5-HT turnover
appears to be selectively attenuated by nicotine.
Effects on Catecholaminergic Neurons
Studies of the effects of nicotine on NE-containing neurons have
produced mixed results. Earlier work suggested that nicotine may
affect behavior via a NE component, but recent research has not
supported such claims (Balfour 1982). It has been reported that
nicotine releases DA from brain tissue (Westfall, Grant, Perry 1983}.
Lichtensteiger and colleagues (1982) observed that nicotine releases
DA through an acceleration of the firing rate of DA cell bodies
located in substantia nigra zona compacta when nicotine is adminis-
tered via iontophoretic application or s.c. (0.4 to 1.0 mg/kg). This
acHvation was marked by a significant increase in striatal DA
turnover; DHBE, but not atropine, attenuated nigrostriatal activa-
tion. Evidence that nicotine facilitates the firing of DA cell bodies by
stimulating nicotinic cholinergic receptors has recently been report-
ed by Clarke, Hemmer, and coworkers (1985), who showed a specific
effect of nicotine antagonized by mecamylamine on pars compacta
cell bodies. Connelly and Littleten (1983) noted that DA release from
synaptosomes lacked stereoselectivity but was blocked by the
ganglionic-blocking drug pempidine.
Fuxe and coworkers (1986, 1987) have studied nicotine's effects on
central catecholamine neurons in relation to neuroendocrine func-
tion. These investigators use quantitative histofluorometric tech-
niques that measure the disappearance of catecholamine stores by
administering a tyrosine hydroxylase inhibitor (AMPT) to rats
receiving various doses of nicotine or exposed to tobacco smoke.
Tissues are then exposed to formaldehyde gas, and histefluoresence
in AMPT-treated rats is evaluated in comparison to controls.
Nicotine is a potent activator of both DA and NE neuron systems
located primarily in the median eminence and in areas of the
hypothalamus. These effects result from a stimulation of nicotinic
cholinergic receptors, generally antagonized by mecamylamine.
Intermittent nicotine dosing (4 x 2 mg/kg, s.c. every 30 min) or
tobacco smoke exposure (rats were exposed to one to four cigarettes
with a smoking machine-determined nicotine yield of 2.6 mg; rats
received 8 puffs at 10-min intervals) results in a decrease of
prolactin, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), and luteinizing hor-
mone (LH) and an increase of plasma eorticosterone levels. Nicotine
doses of 0.3 mg/kg administered i.v. induce an overall activation of
the hypothalamic-pituitary axis, causing an increase of both ACTH
and prolactin that subsides within 60 rain. Tolerance to the
eorticosterone response develops after repeated nicotine doses and
there is evidence that it develops after a single dose of nicotine
(Sharp and Boyer 1986; Sharp et al. 1987). Restraint stress increases
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ACTH, corticosterone, and prolactin levels and decreases DA and NE
levels in hypothalamic regions. This stressor attenuates nicotine's
activation of NE neurons but does not reverse its attenuating effects
on prolactin.
Nicotine appears to be associated with neuroondocrine activity by
NE and DA activation (Fuxe et al. 1987). Immunohlstechemlcal
studies suggest that alterations in NE function are more important
for the control of the pituitary-adrenal-axis, while DA turnover
appears to be crucial for nicotine's effects on prolactiu, LH, and
follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). Moreover:, these studies indicate'
that similar aAChRs are located within both DA mesolimbic and
neostriatal systems.
Stimulation of Pituitary Hormones
Nicotine administration and cigarette smoking stimulate the
release of several anterior and posterior pituitary hormones. Seyler
and coworkers (1986) had human subjects smoke two high-nicotine
(2.87 rag) cigarettes in quick succession. Plasma levels of prolactin,
ACTH, ~ondorphin/6-lipoprotein, growth hormone (GH), vesopres-
sin, and neurophysin I increased. No change was seen in TSH, LH, or
FSH. The rapid smoking paradigm used by Seyler and coworkers
(1986) may have contributed to the effects of nicotine. Growth
hormone levels exhibited a prolonged increase after subjects smoked
three cigarettes in rapid succession (Sandberg et al. 1973). In
experiments conducted by Winternitz and Quillen (1977) with male
habitual ~mokers~ GHbegaa to riseafter two cigarettes, peaked at 1
hr, and then returned to control levels while smoking continued.
Wilkins and colleagues (1982) also found that smoking increases GH
levels and presented evidence that the effect is nicotine mediated.
Coiro and coworkers (1984) reported that the increase in GH
produced by clonidine was greatly enhanced by cigarette smoking,
suggesting that nicotinic cholinergic and adrenergic mechanisms
might interact in the stimulation of GH secretion.
The TSH plasma levels were not affected when nicotine was
administered over a 60-rain period to female rats (Blake 1974). In
studies involving exposure to cigarette smoke, Andersen and col-
leagues (1982) reported a lowering of TSH secretion in rats, but as
noted, Seyler and coworkers (1986) found no change in human
subjects. Thus, the data on the effects of nicotine on TSH release are
inconclusive at this time.
ACTH plasma levels increased after i.p. injection of nicotine in the
rat (Conte-Devolx et al. 1981). In similar experiments, Cam and
Bassett (1983b) found that elevated ACTH levels peaked and rapidly
declined to a sustained plateau level. Sharp and Beyer (1986)
reported that the effects of nicotine on ACTH in rats show a rapid
and marked desensitization. Seyler and eoworkers (1984) had male
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subjects smoke cigarettes containing 0.48 or 2.87 mg of nicotine. No
increases in ACTH or cortisol were detected after subjects smoked
0.48-rag-nicotine cigarettes. Cortisol levels rose significantly in 11 of
15 instances after smoking the high-nlcotine cigarettes, but ACTH
rose in only 5 of the 11 instances when cortisel increased. Each
ACTH increase occurred .in a subject who reported nausea and was
observed to be pale, sweaty, and tachycardic, Seyler and coworkers
(1984) studied smokers and concluded that ACTH release occurs only
in smokers who become nauseated.
LH levels were reduced in male rats exposed to anfiJtered
cigarette smoke, while FSH was unchanged (Andersen et el. 1982). In
experiments by Winternitz and Quillen (1977), there were no
differences in LH and FSH among male cigarette smokers while
smoking as compared with net smoking. Seyler and colleagues (1986)
found no change in human LH or FSH levels after smoking. There is
no evidence of gonadotropin release stimulated by nicotine or
smoking.
Prolactin plasma levels were lowered considerably in lactating
rats injected twice daily with nicotine (Terkel et el. 1973). It was
suggested that failure of prolactia release following chronic nicotine
administration was responsible for low milk production and starva-
tion of pups. Blake and Sawyer (1972) found that, in lactating rats,
the rapid suckling-induced release of prolactin into the blood is
inhibited by s.c. injections of nicotine. Ferry. McLean, and Nikitito-
vjch-Winer (1974) reported that tobacco smoke inhalation in rats
delays the suckling-induced release of prolactin, Andersen and
coworkers (1982) found that prolactin secretion was reduced in mule
rats in a dose-dependent manner by exposure to unfiltered cigarette
smoke. However, Sharp and Bayer (1986} reported that the effects of
nicotine on prelactin in rats shows a biphasic effect, first increasing
and then decreasing. Suppressed prolactin levels were found in
female smokers who were breast feeding (Andersen et al. 1982).
These researchers noted that smokers weaned their babies signifi-
cantly earlier than nonsmokers. However, Wilkins and coworkers
(1982) observed an increased level of prolactin in male chronic
smokers.
Arginine Vazopressin
In addition to its antidiuretic effects, arginine vasopressin acts as a
vasoconstrictor (Munck, Guyre, Holbrook 1984; Waeber et aL 1984),
Arginine vasopressin may also act as a neuromodulator in pathways
that affect behavior. It has been shown to promote memory
consolidation and retrieval in rats (Bohus, Kovacs, de Wied 1978) and
there are reports of memory enhancement following intranasal
administration of a vasopressin analog in both normal and memory-
deficient humans (LeBoeuf. Lodge, Eames 1978; Legros et al. 1978;
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Weingartner et al. 1981l. Nicotinic cholinergic receptors in the
medial basal hypothalamas and muscarinic cholinergic receptors in
the neurohypophysis (posterior pituitary) have been implicated in
the release of vasopressin (Gregg 1985). Nicotine has been found to
stimulate vaseprossin release in a dose-related manner in animals
(Reaves et al. 1981; Siegel et al. 1983) and in humans (Dietz et al.
1984; Pomerleau et al. 1983; Seyler et al. 1986). These observations
are consistent with the effects of nicotine on cognitive performance
(Chapter VI).
The Pro.Opiomelanocorticotropin Group of Hormones
The POMC hormones are released in response to stress and in
response to corticetropin-raleasing hormone (Munck, Guyre, Hol-
brook 1984; Krieger and Martin 1981). ACTH has behavioral effects
and" stimulates the release of steroids such as cortiso~ from the
adrenal cortex. ACTH produces rapid cycling between sleeping and
waking as well as sexual stimulation, grooming/scratching, blocking
of opiate effects such as analgesia, and the enhancement of attention
and stimulus discrimination (Bertolini and Gessa 1981). Endogenous
opioids, such as [~-endorphin, potentiate vagal reflexes, cause respira-
tory depression, lower blood pressure, block the release of catcchol-
amines (Beaumont and Hughes 1979; Schwartz 1981), have antinoci-
ceptive effects (van Ree and de Wied 1931), and modulate neuro-
transmitter systems leading to amnesic effects (Izquierdo et al. 1980;
Introini and Barattj 1984). It has been suggested that the primary
function of the endogenous opioids is metabolic, serving to conserve
body resources and energy (Amir, Brown, Amit 1980; Margules 1979;
Millan and Emrlch 1981).
Nicotine appears to stimulate the release of cor ticetropin-releaslng
hormone from the hypothalamas through a nicotinic cholinergie
mechanism (Hillhoues, Burden, Jones 1975; Weidenfeld et al. 1983).
Using an isolated perfused mouse brain preparation, Marty and
coworkers (1985) demonstrated that nicotine stimulates secretion of
f~-endorphin and ACTH in a dose-related manner when applied
directly to the hypothalamus but not when applied to the pituitary.
The work of Sharp and Beyer (1986) supports this finding; they
reported that the secretion of ACTH following nicotine was unaffect-
ed by adronalectomy. Nicotine administration to rats has also been
shown to increase the plasma levels of corticosterone, ACTH, and ~-
endorphin in a dose-relatcd manner (Conte-Devolx et al. 1981).
Termination of chronic nicotine administration reduced hypotha-
lamic [3-endorphin levels (Rosecrans, Hendry, Hong 1985). Hurlick
and Corrigal (1987) have also observed that the narcotic antagonist
naltrexone inhibits some nicotine-modulated behavior in mice,
providing a possible link between nicotine stimulation of endogenous
opioid activity and behavioral responses. Acute administration of
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nicotine increases levels of plasma ACTH and corticosterone sharply
(Cam and Bassett 1983b), while chronic exposure results in complete
adaptation (Cam and Bassett 1984). Melanocyte-stimulating hor-
mone was decreased and B-endorphin was increased by i.p. injections
of nicotine in the rat (Conte.Devolx et al. 1981).
Jlisch and colleagues (1980, 1982) have accumulated evidence for
eholinergic control of eortisol, prolactin, and 13-endorphin release in
humans. Rapid smoking increases circulating cortisol. 13-endorphin,
and neurophysin l (Pomerleau et al. 1983; Seyler et al, 1984; Novack
and Allen-Rowlands 1985; Novack, Allen-Rowlands, Gann, in pressL
Moreover, in a study that examined the role of endogenous opioid
mechanisms in smoking, Tobin, Jenouri, and Sackner (1982) ob-
served that mean inspiratory flow rate increases during the smoking
of a cigarette but is depressed shortly after smoking. Naloxone had
no effect on the initial stimulation of respiration in response to
smoking but did significantly blunt the subsequent depression of
respiration. The significance of these findings for the control of
cigarette smoking remains equivocal (Karras and Kane 1980;
Nemeth-Coslett and Griffiths 1986; Chapter IV),
Thyroid
Most of the earlier work (1930s through 1950s) assessing the
effects of nicotine on thyroid function involved histologlcal studies of
the thyroid glands from animals treated chronically with nicotine.
The findings are incbnsistent in that some studies suggest elevated
thyroid activity and others' do not (Cam and Baszett 1983a). In a
more recent study of nicotine's action on the plasma levels of the
thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (TS), Cam
and Bassett (1983a) found that a single i.p. injection of 200 ~g/kg did
not alter the level of either hormone, although it did produce an
increase in plasma corticosterone. As mentioned earlier, nicotine
does not consistently affect TSH in animals or humans (Blake 1974;
Seyler et al. 1986).
Adrenal Cortex
Several studies in animals and human subjects have reported that
nicotine and cigarette smoking lead to elevated levels of corticoste-
roids. Kershbaum and colleagues (1968) administered nicotine i.v. to
anesthetized dogs and found a 64 percent rise in plasma corticoste-
roids. In rats, corticosteroid concentrations increased 50 percent
after i.p. administration of nicotine. Suzuki and coworkers (1973)
also reported adrenal cortical secretion in response to nicotine in
conscious and anesthetized dogs. The effects of nicotine on plasma
corticosteroids in stressed and unstressed rats were studied by
Balfour, Khuller, and Longden (1975). The administration of nicotine
to unstressed rats caused a rise in corticosterone which persisted for
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60 rain. Nicotine did not affect plasma corticosterone concentration
in rats stressed by being placed on an elevated platform. Other
studies showed increased plasma corticosteroid levels after nicotine
administration (Turner 1975; Cam, Bassett, Cairncross 1979; Cam
and Bassett 1983b). Andersen and colleagues (1982) exposed male
rats to unfiltered cigarette smoke and found a dose-related increase
in corticosterone secretion. Filtered cigarette smoke was inactive.
Seifert and coworkers (1984) found that the chronic administration
of 0.5 or 1.0 mg/kg of nicotine s.c. twice daily for 8 weeks to rats
produced a marked decrease in plasma aldosterone levels. In this
study, nicotine had no effect on plasma corticosterone concentration.
Hokfelt (1961) reported increases in plasma cortisol and urinary
17-hydroxycorticosteroids following cigarette smoking in human
subjects. Kershbaum and coworkers (1968) reported similar results
involving elevations of 11-hydrexycorticosteroids. Hill and Wynder
(1974) found that serum eorticosteroids were markedly elevated after
high.nicotine (2.73 mg) cigarettes were smoked. No increase was seen
with cigarettes containing less nicotine, Cryer and colleagues (1976)
also found an increase in circulating levels of corticesteroids after
smoking. Winternitz and Quillen (1977) reported a sharp increase in
circulating cortisol after two cigarettes. The levels were maintained
through the smoking period and fell gradually to normal. Wilkins
and coworkers (1982) also observed increased levels of cortisol after
2-rag-nicotine cigarettes were smoked. No increases in eortisol were
detected after smoking 0.48-rag-nicotine cigarettes, but cortisol rose
significantly in 11 of 15 cases smoking 2.87-mg-nicotine cigarettes
(Seyler et al. 1984). Consistent with these results is the observation of
Puddey and colleagues (1984) that cessation of smoking is associated
with a significant fall in cortisol levels.
In contrast to these findings, Tucci and Sode (1972) reported intact
diurnal circadian variations of cortisol and unchanged 24-hr 17- .
hydroxycorticosteroids during smoking. Benowitz, Kuyt, and Jacob
(1984) studied 10 subjects who either smoked their usual brand of
cigarettes, some of which contained 2.5 mg nicotine, or abstained.
Plasma cortisol concentrations throughout the day did not differ
during smoking or abstaining. Thus, while the majority of human
and animal data indicates that nicotine or smoking elevates cortico-
steroid levels, the effects appear to be influenced by dose, time, and
perhaps other factors.
Many investigators cited above have proposed that nicotine's
effects on corticosteroids are mediated by the release of ACTH.
Indeed, hypophysectomy abolished the increase in adrenocortical
secretion following nicotine administration (Suzuki et al. 1973; Cam,
Bassett, Cairncross 1979) and nicotine-induced increase in plasma
ACTH precedes the increase in cortisol (Conte-Devolx et ah 1981).
However, Turner (1975) found that bilateral adrenal demedullation
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abolished the rise in corticosterone in response to nicotine and
suggested that the effect of nicotine is mediated via adrenal release
of catecholamines and that centrally mediated stimulation is not
significant. In contrast, the work of Matta and associates (1987)
demonstrates that the effects of nicotine on ACTH secretion are
centrally mediated. Rubin and Warner (1975) have also shown that
nicotine directly stimulates isolated adrenocortieal cells of the cat.
The stimulant effect was dose-dependent and required the presence
of calcium, These experiments also indicated that nicotine enhances
the steroidogenic effect of ACTH.
Androgens
In male beagles, chronic smoking of h!gh-nieotine/tar cigarettes
was associated with decreased activity of 7a-hydroxylase active on
testosterone (Mittler, Pogach, Ertel 1983). Tostieular 6~- and 16a-
hydroxylases were not altered, while the hepatic androgen 6/3:
hYdroxylase activity in the testis was stimulated markedly by
smoking. Serum testosterone levels were reduced to 54 percent of
control levels by heavy smoking. It was concluded that chronic
cigarette smoking increased hepatic metabolism of testosterone,
resulting in lowered serum testosterone levels. However, it may be
that total testosterone is lower while free testosterone is not.
Estrogens
Cigarette smoking is associated with antiestrogenic effects in
women, including earlier menopause, lower incidence of breast and
endometrial cancer, and increased osteoporosis. MacMahon and
colleagues (1982) reported lower urinary estrogen levels in premeno-
pausal smokers than in premenopausal nonsmokers and suggested
that the low estrogen secretion reflected lower estrogen production,
based on decreased ostrone, estradiol, and estriol. However, 2-
hydroxyestrogens, the major metabolites of estradiol in women, were
not measured. Jensen, Christlansen, and Roflbro (1985) presented
evidence for increased hepatic metabolism of estrogens as a result of
smoking based on an observation of decreased serum estrogen levels
in postmenopausal smokers receiving exogenous hormone therapy.
This study examined 136 women treated for I year with different
doses ofostregen. Reduction of serum estrogen was most pronounced
in the highest estrogen-dose group. There was a significant inverse
correlation between the number of cigarettes smoked daily and
changes in serum estrogen. Michnoviez and colleagues (1986) found a
significant increase in estradlol 2-hydroxylation in premenopausai
women who smoked at least 15 cigarettes/day. They concluded that
smoking exerts a powerful inducing effect on the 2-hydrexylation
pathway of estradiol metabolism, which is likely to lead to decreased
bioavailability of hormone at estrogen target tissues.
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Pancreas and Carbohydrate Metabolism
The body weight of smokers is consistently lower than that of
nonsmokers, and smokers tend to gain weight after cessation of
smoking (see Chapter VI for a detailed discussion of these relation-
ships). These phenomena are thought to contribute to tobacco use.
Glauser and coworkers (1970) and Hofstetter and coworkers (1986)
suggested that a change in metabolic rate is partially responsible for
these effects. Scheehter and Cook (1976) and Grunberg, Bowen, and
Morse (1984) showed that rats which were administered nicotine lost
body weight without reducing food intake, although the body weight
changes were not as great as when eating behavior declined as well
(Grunberg 1982). Grunborg (1986) has pointed out that differences in
body weight between smokers and nonsmokers result from changes
in energy consumption (via changes in specific food consumption)
and changes in energy utilization. Recently, Grunborg and eowork-
ers (1988) have reported reductions of insulin levels accompanying
nicotine administration in rats which could result in an increase in
the utilization of fat, protein, and glycogen. This finding is consistent
with work of Tj~ilve and Popov (1973), using rabbit pancreas pieces,
and studies by Florey, Milner, and Mian (1977) of human smokers
versus nonsmokers. Grunberg and coworkers (1988) have suggested
that the effects of nicotine on insulin levels also may be involved in
the nicotine-induced decrease of sweet food preferences.
Elcctrophyslologlcal Actions of Nicotine
Electrocortical Effects
The brain responds to electrical as well as to chemical stimuli.
Therefore, measurements of the electrophysiological actions of
nicotine complement studies of its chemical effects. In addition,
eleetrophysiologieal activity reflects function that may relate to
sensory and cognitive changes observed in humans after smoking
(see Chapter VI). In animals, nicotine produces changes ranging
from subtle latency decreases in the primary auditory pathway to
seizures. The electrophysiologieal actions of nicotine may help to
relate the anatomical and receptor date (discussed earlier in" this
Chapter) with sensory and cognitive data (discussed in greater detail
in Chapter VI).
The human studies on electrocortieal effects of nicotine have some
methodological limitations. Most of the human studies had subjects
smoke cigarettes and did not measure blood levels of nicotine. Also,
most studies were performed on smokers whose immediate and long-
term smoking history was determined by questionnaires which may
not accurately reflect tolerance and physical dependence (Chapter
IV). In some studies the subjects were deprived of cigarettes, but no
objective measures such as expired carbon monoxide or blood
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nicotine levels were collected to verify compliance with the depriva-
tion conditions.
Spontaneous Electroencephalogram
Historically, nicotine and ACh were used in animal experiments to
study the cholinergic mechanisms in the midbrain and thalamus
which produced EEG and behavioral activation (Longo, yon Berger,
Bovet 1954; Rinaldi and Himwich 1955a,b). The administration of
nicotine produced EEG activation, consisting of desynchrenized low-
voltage, fast activity, and behavioral arousal or alerting. These EEG
and behavioral responses resembled those produced by electrical
stimulation of the midbrain reticulomesencephalic activating system
(Moruzzi and Magorin 1949). With the discovery by Eecles, Eccles,
and Fatt (1956) of nicotinic receptors in the Renshsw cell of the
spinal cord., other investigators began to study the precise pharma-
cology of the EEG and behavioral alerting produced by nicotine and
electrical stimulation of the midbrain. Cigarette smoking in humans
also produced EEG desynehronization (Hauscr et al. 1958; Wechsler
1958; Bickford 1960) or EEG desynchrenization with an increase in
alpha frequency (Lambiase and Serra 1957). By the late 1959s and
early 1960s it was generally known that nicotine or tobacco smoke
caused EEG and behavioral arousal in animals and humans, but
several important issues were unresolved.
The central effects of nicotine were originally thought to result
from its action on the cardiovascular system (Heymans, Bouckeart,
Dautrebande 1931). Early studies found that EEG desynchronization
occurred when the subjects smoked nicotine cigarettes, nicotine-free
cigarettes, or sucked on glass tubes filled with cotton (Hauser et al.
1958; Wechsler 1958). Schaeppi (1968) injected nicotine into the
vertebral artery, carotid artery, and third and fourth ventricles of a
cat's brain and was able to dissociate the effects of nicotine on the
EEG from those on the cardiovascular system. Kswamura and
Domino (1969) demonstrated that the EEG changes induced by
nicotine could be obtained in animals whose blood pressure increase
was blocked, Prevention of release of catecholamines in reserpine-
pretreated animals did not interfere with the EEG desynchreniza-
tion produced by nicotine (Knapp and Domino 1962).
Inhaled tobacco smoke (2-mL samples with about 2 ~g/kg of
nicotine) and 2 ~g of nicotine injected every 30 sec in a cat encephale
isol$ preparation produced EEG desynchronization, EEG and behav-
ioral activation after cigarette smoke inhalation was also observed in
unanesthetized cats with implanted electrodes (Hudson 1979). Lukas
and Jasinski (1983) found that i.v. doses (0.75 to 3.0 rag) in human
smokers resulted in dose-dependent decreases in alpha (8 to 12 Hz
EEG activity) power and EEG desynchronization. In an inpatient
study where nicotine deprivation was carefully controlled and
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monitored by measurement of expired carbon monoxide, the smok-
ing of non-nicotine cigarettes did not change the EEG (Herning,
Jones, Bachman 1988), but EEG changes did occur when subjects
smoked nicotine-containing cigarettes. These studies confirm that
nicotine has a direct action on the CNS separate from the cardiovas-
cular effects and that the effects are produced primarily by the
nicotine in inhaled tobacco smoke.
As experimental physiological manipulations, EEG recording, and
EEG quantification techniques improved, the specific nature of the
nicotine-induced cortical EEG changes and their relationship to
behavior were found to be more complex than originally thought.
The desynchronization produced by nicotine (20 to 10O I~g/kg) in the
cat was blocked by anterior pontine transections, but not by
midpontine transections:(Knapp and Domino 1962). The midbrain
reticular activating system was needed for .the cortical ERG desyn-
chronization produced by nicotine. However, larger doses of nicotine
injections also produced synchronous slow high-voltage EEG activity
in the hippocampas (hippocampal theta). Injections of the mascarin-
ic agonist arecoline (20 to 40 mg/kg) in the anteriorly transeeted
midbrain preparations still produced the hippocampal theta activity
without the cortical desynchronization. Atropine (1 mg/kg) and
mseamylamine (1 mg/kg), but not the ganglionic antagonist trimeth-
idinium (1 mg/kg) block the nicotine induced EEG desynchroniza-
tioh in an intact animal. The convulsions observed after nicotine
injections (1 to 6 mg/kg in cats; 0.05 to 0.25 pg/g in mice) (Laurence
and Stacey 1952; Stone, Mechlenburg, Zorehiane 1958; Stumpf,
Petsche, Gogolak 1962; Anderson and Curtis 1964; Stumpf and
Gogolak 1967) appear to be due to nicotine's ability in large doses to
stimulate musearinie cholinergic receptors in the hippocampus.
Because a high concentration of labeled nicotine binds to hippocam-
pal cells of the eat (SchmiterlSw et al. 1967) and areas adjacent to the
hippocampus in the rat (Clarke, Pert, Pert 1984), the possibility that
nicotine-induced limbis electrical activity contributes to its behavior-
al effects cannot be discounted.
Nicotine's alerting effect on the brain may also involve a peripher-
al component. Eleetrocortisal and behavioral arousal occurs in the
cat within 1 to 2 sec after injection of 10 to 15 ttg/kg into the right
atrium of the heart, originating in vagal pulmonary C fiber afferents
(Ginzel 1987). The human counterpart to this finding is the
observation by Murphree, Pfeiffer, and Price (1967) that an initial
EEG change occurred within 5 sec after cigarette smoke inhalation,
which is shorter than a chest-to-head circulation time. Another input
from the periphery arises from nicotinic sites in the arterial tree.
Injection of small amounts (2 to 4 Ilg/kg) of nicotine, even as far
away from the brain as into the lower aorta or femoral artery, causes
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instantaneous arousal from all types of sleep (Ginzal and Lucas
1980).
The nicotine-induced release of ACh (Macintosh and Oborin 1953;
Mitchell 1963) may be responsible for the EEG desynchronization in
animals (Armitage, Hall, Sellers 1969). The effect does not appear to
be due to the direct action of nicotine on the cortex because the
cortical cholinergic receptors are largely muscarinic (Kuhar and
Yamamura 1976; Rotter et al. 1979). Lower doses of nicotine (20
ttg/kg/30 sec for 20 min) induced EEG desynchronization and ACh
release in the cat, whereas higher doses (40 pg/kg/30 sec for 20 rain)
produced either an increase or decrease in EEG desynchronization
• with corresponding increase or decrease in ACb release (Armltage,
Hall, Sellers 1969). The effect of nicotine on the EEG was short lived
relative to the release of ACh. Two separate, pathways have been
proposed to explain these results: an ascending cholinergic pathway
mediating the cortical desynehronlzation and a limbic pathway
mediating the ACh release.
In one strain ef mice, C57BL, nicotine increased cortical high.
voltage activity and decreased homovanillic acid (HVA) and 3-
methoxy-4-hydrexyphenthyleneglycol (MHPG) production in a per-
fused brain preparation (Erwin, Cornell, Towell 1986). The decrease
in HVA and MHPG levels reflects an increase in brain DA and NE
levels. In intact C57BL mice, nicotine decreased locomotor activity
(Marks, Burch, Collins 1983a). Thus, at least in one strain of mice,
nicotine induces an increase in cortical EEG synchronization, a
decrease in locomotor activity, and an increase in brain eatechol-
amines. Little evidence relates the cortical desynchronization ob-
served in animals and humans to an increase in catecholamine
changes in the brain.
As trends in neuroseience research have shifted away from
spontaneous EEG recording in animals to intracellular recording,
receptor localization, and binding techniques, the precise quantifica-
tion of the nicotine-induced EEG desynehronization and hippocam-
pal synchronization has not been done. This type of quantification
has been done in humans by power spectral analysis. This technique
quantifies the EEG by the distribution and amplitude of brain waves
at different frequencies. Alpha power includes BEG activity in the 8-
to 12-Hz frequency range. Theta power includes EEG activity in the
4- to 7-Hz frequency range. Beta power includes EEG activity in the
frequency range of 13 Hz and higher.
The comparison of nicotirLe-iuduced EEG changes in animals and
humans is complicated by an important methodological difference.
Animals usually have not previously been given nicotine, while in
studies of humans, the subjects always are experienced tobacco
smokers. Moreover, in human studies that included a deprivation
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period, nicotine abstinence may have produced electrephysiological
changes that are reversed by smoking or nicotine.
EEG desynchrenization or increased beta power was observed in
smokers after smoking a tobacco cigarette (Hauser et al. 1958;
Wechsler 1958; Bickford 1960; Ulett and Itil 1969). These findings
essentially replleated the animal studies of alcotiae. Using power
spectral analysis, Ulett and Itil (1969) also observed a decrease in
theta power and an increase in alpha frequency. The increase in
alpha frequency was previously noted with visual inspection by
Lambriase. However, the increase in there was not. The subjects in
the study by Ulett and Itil had smoked one pack or more of
cigarettes/day and had been deprived of tobacco cigarettes for 24 hr
when the baseline EEG was recorded. Comparisons of the postsmok-
ing EEG were made with this baseline period. Therefore, the
decrease in alpha frequency and increase in theta power relative to
the data from the postsmoking session may be the result of nicotine
deprivation (Chapter IV).
Knott and Venables (1978) compared the alpha frequencies of
nonsmokers, 12-hr nicotine-deprived smokers, and nondeprived
smokers. They observed a decrease of about 1 Hz in the dominant
alpha frequency of the deprived smokers relative to the nonsmokers
and nopdeprived smokers in a passive eyes-closed situation. An
active behavioral task and other frequencies of the BEG were not
studied. Knott and Venables hypothesize that smokers were consti-
tutionally different from nonsmokers. The slower aIpha frequency
was interpreted as an arousal deficit, and smoking as compensation
to reduce the arousal deficit. Knott and Venables (1976) and Ulet
and Itil (1969) both found an attentional deficit during tobacco
deprivation.
Herning and coworkers (1983) Investigated the EEG changes
related to cigarette smoking in a hospitalized group of healthy
smokers who smoked at least a pack and a half of tobacco cigarettes
with a machine nicotine delivery of 0.8 mg or more. A serial
subtraction task was administered and EECo were recorded from
subjects in an eyes-open state. Alpha frequency was not affected by
periods of smoking and deprivation. However, theta and alpha power
increased during periods of depdvatlon and decreased after smoking
tobacco but not placebo cigarettes. The effects were most pronounced
on theta power. Increases in theta power occurred as early as 80 rain
after the last cigarette, and were of the same magnitude as those
after 10 to 19 hr of nicotine deprivation. The increase in EEG theta
was interpreted to be a sign of tobacco deprivation (Chapter IV).
An indirect method of observing an increase in cortical activation
was the measurement of alpha power changes after tobacco smoking.
A number of investigators reported a decrease in alpha power or
abundance with cigarette smoking (Murphree, Pfeiffer, Price 1967;
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Philips 1971; Caille and Bassano 1974, 1976; Murphree 1979;
Herning, Jones, Bachman 1983; Cinciripini 1986), with nicotine
polacrilex gum (Pickworth, Herning, Henningfield 1986, in press),
and with i.v. doses of nicotine (Lukas and Jasinski 1983). In spite of
differences in the number of cigarettes regularly smoked by the
subjects, the length of tobacco deprivation, the type of tobacco
cigarette smoked during the experiment, and the route of adminis-
tration, nicotine reduced alpha power.
Brown (1968) measured the resting EEG for heavy smokers and
nonsmokers. No cigarettes were smoked. The EEG of the heavy
smokers had less alpha and more beta activity, Twelve hours of
nonconfirmed deprivation in the heavy smokers did not change the
EEG patterns.
The EEG of neonates of mothers who smoke 'is not different from
that of neonates of control mothers (Chernick, Childiaeva, loffe
1983). Whether acute periods of smoking may affect the EEG of the
child before birth is not known.
In limited animal and human work, individual or species differ-
ences in the effects of nicotine on the EEG have been observed.
Nicotine produced a dose-dependent cortical EEG desynchronization
in C3H mice and an increase in synchronized EEG similar to
hippocampal theta activity in C57BL mice (Erwin, Cornell, Towell
1986). Both effects have been observed at different doses in the same
preparation (Kawamura and Domino 1969). Lower doses produce
EEG desynchronization, and higher doses produce hippocampal
theta. Tobacco cigarette smoking decreased EEG alpha power in
Type A subjects and increased theta power in Type B subjects
deprived of nicotine for about 4 hr (Cinciripini 1986). The relation-
ship between hippocampal theta in animals and cortical theta in
humans is not yet understood. In nondrugged animals cortical
dasynchronization and hippocampal theta activity often occur simul-
taneously. Nicotine at low doses produces cortical desynchronization
and at high doses produces both types of EEG activity. Animal data
indicate that nicotine has effects on at least two systems in the brain:
a midbrain area responsible for EEG desynehronization and a limbic
system generating hippocampal theta activity. These findings are
consistent with the observation that some smokers indicate that they
smoke for nicotine's stimulating effects and others smoke for its
sedating effects.
Sensory Event-Related Potentials
In animals and humans, the brainstem auditory-evoked potential
technique provides a noninvasive method for studying the effects of
nicotine on primary auditory sensory function. In the rat, nicotine
reduced the amplitudes of Waves HI and IV of the brainstem
auditory-evoked response (BAER) (Bhargava and MeKean 1977;
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Bhargava, Salamy, McKean 1978; Bhargava, Salamy, Shah 1981).
Serotonergic mechanisms may mediate the nicotine-induced reduc-
tion in latency. Lavernhe-Lemaire and Garand (1985) found essen-
tially the opposite. Nicotine increased Waves I-IIl and did not
decrease Waves IV and V of BAER.
Auditory event-related potentials (AERPs) recorded directly from
the cortex of rat have provided conflicting information about
nicotine's effects on auditory transmission from the inferior collicu-
lus to the cortical areas. Guha and Pradhan (1976), using pontobarhi-
tal anesthesia, found a dose-dependent increase in P1 (40 ms) and N1
(110 ms) of the AERP. Bhargava, Salamy, and McKean (1978), using
chloralose anesthesia with atropine pretreatment, reported no
nicotine-related change in P1 (11 ms), N1 (28 ms), P2 (75 ms), and N2
(121 ms) of the AERP.
After smoking, the P1 (50 ms) of the human AERP is increased
during passive tasks at all intensity levels and the N1 (110 ms) is
increased in both passive and active tasks (Knott 1985). The N2
(about 215 ms) to P2 (about 260 ms) component of the AERP recorded
during a passive task was reduced after cigarette smoking when
compared with data from the baseline deprivation test (Friedman
and Meares 1980). P2 was also reduced by nicotine in the study by
Knott (1985). These components also increased in amplitude as the
tobacco deprivation period was lengthened. Any attempt to relate
this finding to results in the anesthetized'rat would be speculative
because AERPs recorded from the cortex of unanesthetized animals
and humans are difficult to compare (Wood et al. 1984). Alterations
in AERP components in the 75- to 150-ms latency range have been
attributed to change in attention. The decrease in the later N2-P2
component is more likely to reflect reduced habituation to auditory
stimuli.
The effects of nicotine on visual event-related potentials (VERPs)
are more complicated than those on the AERPs. In unaesthetized
rabbits, i.v. nicotine (0.025 to 0.500 mg/kg) produced a complex
VERP change (Sabelli and Giardini 1972). At 2 min, nicotine
depressed the P1 (100 ms) and the N1 (250 ms). At 5 rain, these
components were enhanced. At doses below 0.050 mg/kg, the N1 was
again depressed from 10 to 20 rain after the injection. Fretreatment
with catecholamina inhibitors diminished the nicotine-induced
VERP changes. The authors suggested that the effect of nicotine on
VERPs was mediated in part by catscholaminergic mechanisms.
The effects of nicotine on the human VERP using multiple flash
intensities were the focus of four studies. The studies were designed
to test Buchsbaum and Silvernmn's (1968) concept of stimulus
intensity control and its modulation by nicotine. According to their
theory, sensory processing in different individuals varies in at least
two ways. Some persons, "augmenters," are more sensitive to higher
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intensities than to lower intensities, and others, "reducers," are
more sensitive to lower than to higher intensities. Smokers might be
one particular type of stimulus processer and may smoke to alter or
normalize stimulus intensity. In all studies the comparison was
between results after 12 hr or more of unconfirmed tobacco
deprivation and those after recent smoking. Components of the
VERP increased after smoking in three studies (Hall et el. 1973;
Friedman and Meares 1980; Woedson et al. 1982) but decreased in
another study (Knott and Venables 1978). The increases and
decreases occurred in components of the same latency range (75 to
250 ms) after flash onset. The fourth study differed only slightly
from the others in that it used a between-subjects and not within-
subject experimental design. Using a single flash intensity, Vasquez
and Toman (1967) also observed a decrease in components IV ('40 ms)
and V (170 ms) of the VERP when compared with results after 36 hr
of tobacco deprivation, Two studies found a nicotine-induced increase
at earlier components (III-IV and IV-V) for the lower intensities only.
The other study reported an increase in later components (V.VI and
VI-VII} at the higher flash intensities. Knott and Venables (1978}
observed the decrease after smoking in the middle components (IV-V
and V-VI) for the lower intensities. Because of these divergent
results, it,is premature to conclude that smokers are exclusively
augmenters or reducers who are attempting to optimally adjust
stimulus intensity by smoking.
Cognitive F~vent-Related Potentials
Cognitive event-related potentials reflect neural events which
appear to be related to different aspects of cognition, such as
attention and stimulus evaluation. They usually follow the sensory
components of event-related potentials when human subjects are
performing active behavioral tasks. They provide information not
normally available from performance measures such as reaction
time. Increases or decreases in these potentials after smoking can aid
in our understanding the effects of nicotine on performance.
When two task-relevant stimuli are separated by a short interval
(1 to 3 sec), a negative slow wave develops between them. In
particular, this contingent negative variation (CNV) develops in
warned or cued reaction times, successive discrimination, and some
language processing tasks. The CNV appears to reflect brain
preparation to process and respond to the second stimulus. Smoked
tobacco and i.v. nicotine either increase or decrease the CNV (Ashten
et el. 1973, 1974, 1980; Minnie and Comer 1978). Extraverted
smokers took longer to smoke and nicotine increased the CNV,
Introverted subjects smoked faster and nicotine decreased the CNV.
Reaction time was inversely correlated with CNV amplitude; that is.
shorter reaction time was associated with larger CNV, With i,v,
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doses of nicotine (12.5 to 800.0 ~g), larger doses produced a decrease
and small doses produced an increase in the CNV in the same
subject. O'Connor (1982) studied the effects of smoking on the
orienting (O wave) and expectancy (E wave) components of the CNV
in introverted and extraverted subjects. The O wave was not affected
by smoking. The E wave, recorded in frontal areas, was increased in
extraverted subjects after smoking. The E wave has been interpreted
by some investigators as cortical preparation for a response. Smok-
ing decreased a positive parietal E wave in introverts. Nicotine's
effect on the E wave suggests the possible enhancement of motor
preparation in the extraverted subjects. The decrease of parietal
pesitivity indicates a possible enhancement of stimulus-processing
capacities in the introverts.
Poststimulus components P2(00) and P3(00) were affected by
cigarette smoking and nicotine pelaerilex gum. P2 is thought to be
an index of habituation (Hillyard and Picton 1979), and P3 an index
of stimulus evaluation (Johnson 1986). Both components were
reduced in deprived smokers after smoking (Knott 1985; Herning
and Jones 1979). Knott (1985) interprets the reduction in P2 as a
more efficient habituation of sensory screening of relevant stimuli.
The reduction in P3 amplitude after smoking indicates a poorer
evaluation of task-relevant stimuli. The P3 latency and reaction time
were reduced only by cigarettes with higher machine-tested nicotine
yields. (Edward et al. 1985). Such data indicate faster stimulus and
response processing. These authors did not report any P3 amplitude
changes. If none were preseht or P3 was reduced, the argument for
enhanced stimulus processing would be weak. Herning and Pick-
worth (1985) reported both dose-dependent increases and decreases
in P3 amplitude as a function of background noise levels when
deprived smokers chewed nicotine polacrilex gum (4 mg and 2 mg
doses). The respective increase or decrease was blocked by mecamy-
lamina pretreatment. Thus, the effect of nicotine on stimulus
evaluation remains unclear and is perhaps confounded by cognitive
deficits after periods of nicotine deprivation.
Motor Potentials
O'Connor (1986) investigated the effect of tobacco smoking on
motor potential and motor performance. Smoking increased the
motor readiness potential in extraverts, but not in introverts. These
results are consistent with his earlier finding of an increased E wave
in extraverts after smoking. For introverts, smoking improved task
performance, but did not increase the motor readiness potential.
Other Peripheral Effects Relevant to Tobacco Use
In addition to vast central and peripheral effects, cigarette
smoking and nicotine have other peripheral effects that may
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contribute to tobacco use. These additional factors have received less
research attention, mainly because they involve relatively new
theory or methodological approaches. For example, there is evidence
that direct stimulation of the trachea is important for cigarettes to
satisfy smokers (Rose et al. 1984) (Chapter IV). There is also evidence
that nicotine acts directly on the lung to stimulate afferent neurons
that, in turn, result in skeletal muscle relaxation and electrocortical
arousal (Ginzel 1987). These effects may contribute to the relation-
ship between smoking and stress (Chapter VI). Other research
indicates that smoking affects psychophysiological reactivity, an
integrative mechanism that is different from the classic, physiologi-
cal approach of examining individual systems or pathways. There-
fore, psychophysiological reactivity and its relevance to smoking are
discussed.
Psychophysiological Reactivity and Smoking
Psychophysiological reactivity is emerging as a useful construct in
smoking research, linking basic biological processes (genetic vulnera-
bility, central neurochemieal factors) to behavioral coping and other
psychesocial factors. Psychophysiological reactivity refers to a
physiological response to e specific stimulus or as a result of the
absence of stimulation. This response can, in some cases, act as a
stressor. Within the broader conceptual framework of a stress-coping
model of smoking addiction (Shjffman and Wills 1985), smoking
behavior can be viewed both as a potential stimulus and as a coping
response that modulates psychophysiological reactivity.
Studies of psychophysiological reactivity illustrate the value of
controlled laboratory procedures to study person-environment inter-
actions. Psychophysiological reactivity reflects an interaction of the
organism and the environment. It is affected by individual differ-
ences in multiple response modes (physiological, cognitive, behavior-
al) and takes into account the genetic and learning historyand
current state of the organism.
This Section reviews two separate but interrelated lines of
psychophysiological reactivity research with humans. The first is the
effect of smoking on psychophysiologieal reactivity. Related issues
include identification of mechanisms that may help to reveal why
some individuals smoke and the relationship between smoking and
coronary heart disease (CHD). The second research line addresses
the relationship among situational events (general and drug-specif-
ic), psychophysiological reactivity, and relapse.
The effects of smoking on the cardiovascular aspects of physiologi-
cal reactivity have been well documented and appear to be primarily
duo to effects of nicotine and carbon monoxide (Suter, Buzzi, B~ttig
1983; Koch et el. 1980; Resenberg etal. 1980). In individuals with no
cardiovascular disease, some of the typical effects of smoking and
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nicotine are elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a fall in
fingertip temperature and capillary blood flow (Richardson 1987;
Ashton et al. 1982; Epstein and Jennings 1986; Henningfield et al.
1983).
Accompanying cardiovascular reactions to smoking are cognitive
reactlons, mcludlng perceptlons of relaxatlon, and anxlolytlc~ antmc-
ciceptive, euphoric, stimulative, and dysphoric effects (Kozl0wski,
Director, Harford 1981). Although there is consistency in the
literature with regard to the self-reportod emotional changes experi-
enced as a result of smoking, there are clear differences in response
and direction of effects between individuals and within ind'viduals
over time (Best and Hackstian 1978; Gilbert 1979; Gilbert and
Welser, in press). Smoking can produce physiological changes that
are concurrent with subjective tranquilizing effects (Nesbitt 1973;
Shiffman and Jarvik 1984; Gilbert 1979). This phenomenon has led
investigators to emphasize the importance of incorporating physic-
logical, psychological, and environmental factors into more biobeha-
vioral models to better understand the cognitive and physiological
components of reactivity to smoking (Pomerleau and Pomerleau
1984; Baum, Grunberg, Singer 1982; Abrams et al. 1987; Grunberg
and Baum 1985). For example, nicotine has direct and indirect
actions on central neuroregulatory systems and has biphasic effects
of both stimulation and blockade. These factors can help explain
effects such as the anxiolytic and antinociceptive phenomena
(Pomerleau 1986) at a cognitive and neurechemical level, while at
the same time resulting in increased heart rate and blood pressure
and decreased perception of muscle tension (Epstein et al. 1984).
In addition to dosage, biphasic, and physiological factors, the
influence of setting and expectancy set, the current state of the
individual (smoking, deprived, stressed, not stressed), and individual
differences in dependence, genetic, demographic, and learning
history can all influence psychophysiological reactivity. For exam-
ple, smoking a 1.3.mg-nicetine cigarette under conditions of mild
sensory isolation produced consistent arousal effects (i.e., elevations
in heart rate and skin conductance level with decreases in EEG
alpha waves) in smokers compared with sham smoking or a
situational control group. However, under conditions of stress, as
induced by intermittent noise bursts, a mixed stimulant (heart rate)
and depressant (EEG, skin conductance) response was observed
(Golding and Mangan 1982). Woodson and coworkers (1986) also
reported that during noise, smoking induced cardiovascular stimula-
tion (i.e., heart rate acceleration, peripheral vascenstriction) but
electrodermal depression (i.e., lowered skin conductance response
amplitude). These findings are consistent with the conclusions of
Gilbert and Welser (in press) that unidimensional models are
inadequate to explain the effects of smoking.
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In addition to research on the impact of smoking on psychological
and physiological processes, studies have also examined the com-
bined cardiovascular effects of smoking and stress. In this context
the concept of cardiovascular psychophysiological reactivity is used
to help clarify the relationship among stress, smoking, and CHD
(Epstein and Jennings 1986). MacDougall and colleagues (1983)
randomly assigned 51 male smokers to smoking versus sham
smoking and stress versus no stress conditions in a 2.x 2 factorial
design. The stressor was a difficult video game performed under
challenging conditions. Subjects who sham smoked under no stress
showed minimal cardiovascular response. Subjects who smoked
under no stress or who sham smoked under stress evidenced similar
degrees of response of about a 15-bpm increase in heart rate, a 12-
• mmHg increase in systolic blood pressure, and a 9-mmHg increase in
diastolic blood pressure. Subjects in the combined smoking and stress
condition had larger increases in all cardiovascular measures. The
combination of mild stress and smoking produced effects that were
twice those of either condition alone. Smoking and stress combined
to increase cardiovascular response in men.
In a followup study of women, using the game 2 x 2 factorial
design, Dembroski and colleagues (1985) found that the combined
effect of stress and smoking produced blood pressure and heart rate
ipereases that exceeded the sum of the individual effects. However,
• because modifications were made in dosage and psychological
challenge, the two studies were not identical. The gender differences
noted could therefore reflect methodological differences, uncon-
trolled factors, or possibly differences between the sexes in response
to the stress and smoking stimuli. Indeed, it has been noted that
females may be more likely than males to smoke to regulate affect
(Ikard and Tomkins 1973), are more likely to relapse after quitting
(Grits 1986), may differ in biological factors relating to stress
reactivity/sensitivity (Abrams et al. 1987), and show greater changes
in body weight and eating behavior in response to nicotine (Grun-
berg, Bowen, Winders, 1986; Grunberg, Winders, Popp 1987). (See
Chapter VII for a discussion of treatment implications of these
possible sex differences.)
In a conceptually related study, the relationship between physio-
logical responses to cognitive (mental arithmetic) and physical (cold
pressor) strossers was examined in female smokers and nonsmokers
who either used or did not use oral contraceptives (Emmons and
Weidner, in press). All subjects showed some physiological response
(heart rate and blood pressure responses) to the stressors, but in
smokers oral contraceptive use significantly enhanced the systolic
blood pressure response to cognitive stress. This finding may be
related to the fact that smokers who use oral contraceptives are 5.6-
times more likely to have a myocardial infarction than are smokers
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who do not use oral contraceptives, 9.7-tlmes more likely than
nonsmoking users, and 39-times more likely than nonsmokers who
do not use oral contraceptives (Shapiro etal. 1979; Jain 1978; Ory
1977).
In studies of psychophysiological reactivity, it is critical to identify,
measure, and control for factors that might confound or alter the
intended impact of the independent variables. For instance, time
since last drink and beliefs, expectations, and setting are important
variables to consider in the study of alcohol addiction (Abrams and
Wilson 1979; Abrams 1983; Mariatt and Rohsenow 1980). The 2 x 2
balanced placebo design (Marlatt, Detaining, Reid 1973), where
expectancy set (told to expect the drug or told to expect no drug) and
actual content (drug versus placebo) are fully controlled, has been
used extensively in the alcohol addiction field to isolate the separate
and interactive elements of cognitive and pharmacologic effects.
With smoking, little is known about the separate and interactive
impacts of expectations of cigarettes' effects versus their actual
pharmacologic effects. This is partially because it is difficult to find a
method of administration that closely resembles smoking but where
the required manipulations to achieve a credible balanced placebo
design can be accomplished.
Another methodological concern is control over the dosage of
nicotine absorbed by the smoker. Nicotine is thought to be the most
important tobacco constituent responsible for the acute effects of
smoking on reactivity, attention and task performance, mood, and
withdrawal following cessation (Perkins etal., in press; Pomerleau,
Turk, Fertig 1984; Hughes et al. 1984). However, in tobacco smoking,
nicotine is accompanied by more than 4,000 other compounds (Dube
and Green 1982) and smokers are known to smoke in individualized
ways (Epstein etal. 1981) (Chapter IV). The coaching of puff
frequency and other attempts to standardize intake of smoke are
imperfect (Perkins et al., in press). An aerosol nasal spray appears to
be a promising alternatlve to smoking in stud'es of behavioral and
physiological effects. It allows for rapid uptake through inhalation,
and a dose-response study indicates patterns of heart rate, blood
pressure, and serum nicotine levels that are very similar to those
obtained by smoking cigarettes of equivalent nicotine content
(Perkins etal., in press).
Perkins and coworkers (in press) studied the separate and interac-
tive effects of nicotine administered by nasal aerosols and stress on
psychophysiol0gical reactivity. The authors note that the previous
studies (MacDougall etal. 1983; Dembroski etal. 1985) could be
confounded because smokers usually smoke more under stress and
therefore they may inhale more mootine or alter the'r smoking in
other ways when stressed (Mangan and Golding 1978; Rose, Ananda,
Jarvik 1983) (Chaptar VI). In other words, the additive effects of
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stress and smoking on physiological responses could have resulted
from uncontrolled changes in smoking pattern between the smokers
in the no-stress and stress conditions. Perkins and colleagues (in
press) studied 12 male smokers in a repeated-measures design, where
subjects received all 4 conditions (stress plus nicotine, stress plus
placebo, rest and nicotine, and rest and placebo) on separate days
with the order of condition counterbalanced within subjects. Follow-
ing the methodology of previous studies of psychophysiological
reactivity, the researchers used an active stressor consisting of a
video game under conditions of competitive challenge. Nicotine was
administered in measured 1.0-mg doses by the aerosol nasal method
(Perkins et al., in press)• Consistent with observations of MacDougall
and ooworkers (1983), results were additive for heart rate reactivity.
However, effects were less than additive for systolic and diastolic
blood pressure.
Taken together, the studies of the effects of smoking cigarettes and
of nicotine aerosol stimuli on the physiological responses of adult
males demonstrate a consistent effect for the stimuli alone, additive
in combination with stress on heart rate, and additive or less than
additive with stress on blood pressure. There is some suggestion that
effects may be more than additive for women, but this finding
x:equires replication.
Psychophysiological Reactivity, Smoking Cessation, and
Relapse
Psychophysialogical reactivity also serves as a conceptual frame-
work to study relapse after cessation from smoking (Shiffman 1986b;
Abrams 1988). Individual differences in psychophysiolagical reactivi-
ty and associated coping responses, as a function of general and
smoking-specific stressful stimuli, have been hypothesized to medi-
ate relapse• For example, smokers who smoke more when stressed
might be particularly vulnerable to relapse (Pomerleau, Adkins,
Pertsehuck 1978). This idea is consistent with the observation that
relapse may be triggered by life stress events and other psychesoclal
demands (Ockene et al. 1982l and by high-risk situations including
negative emotions, social conflicts and pressures, and the presence of
alcohol or smoking cues (Marlatt and Gordon 1985; Shiffman 1979,
1982, 1984, 1986a; Abrams et al. 1986). If certain psychophysiologioal
reactivity responses distinguish potential abstainers from relapsers,
cessation may be better maintained by identifying "relapse-prone"
individuals (Chapter VII).
Stressful environmental demands, sensitivity of the individual to
these demands, and the repertoire of coping responses are important
factors in relapse (Shiffman and Wills 1985; Abrams et al. 1987)•
These same factors also may contribute to initiation of smoking
among adolescents. Wills (1985) provides evidence for the stress-
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coping model of smoking in adolescence, relating both stress and
coping patterns to substance use. Results are consistent with ether
findings that, in addition to peer pressure to smoke, adolescents
actively seek methods of coping with their perceptions of stress
(Wills 1985; Friedman, Lichtenstein, Biglan 1985; Botvin and
MeAlistor 1981). Although these survey studies are consistent with
the notioh of smoking as a means of coping with psychophysiological
reactivity to environmental demands, research has not yet measured
reactivity in adolescents prior to smoking onset.
Observational and retrospective studies of relapse have identified
other smoking-speclfic stressful stimuli and cogni-
tive/psychophysiological measures of reactivity that are relevant to
relapse. Situations or stimuli that cue smoking and are associated
with relapse'include pharmacologic dependence and withdrawal
symptoms (Jarvik 1977; Pomerleau and Pomerleau, in press; Hughes
et al. 1984), stimuli previously associated with smoking (e.g, coffee
drinking, alcohol) (Shiffman 1984, 1986a; Best and Hakstian 1978),
and urges to smoke (Myrsten, Elgerot, F..dgren 1977). Situational
stimuli may or may not have previously been paired with smoking
and may or may not include smoking cues as a trigger for relapse,
Substance use cues themselves (e.g., the sight and smell of
cigarettes) also may precipitate relapse, perhaps in combination with
other stressful stimuli or in a vulnerable individual (Shiffman 1986b;
Abrams et ai.'1987). Models of how substance use cues are related to
relapse have been proposed on the.basis of classical, operant, and
social learning principles. Reactions may be conditioned to stimuli
repeatedly paired with smoking, resulting in craving and physiologi-
cal reactivity in their presence and moderated by dependence,
tolerance, and nonpharmacelogic withdrawal (Siegel 1983; Cooney,
Baker, Pomerleau 1983; Grits 1980)~ Psyehophysiological reactivity
to smoking cues could mimic the prior drug response (Wikler 1965),
result in a drug-oppesite (compensatory) response (Siegel 1883), or
have other effects on psychological processes such as perceived
anxiety, urges to smoke, and self-efficacy in resisting relapse
according to a social learning model of relapse (Marlatt and Gordon
1985).
Abrams and colleagues (1987) studied the psychophysiologieal
reactivity and behavioral coping responses of male and female
relapsers and quitters in four Simulated situational contexts: general
social situations, smoking-specific negative emotional and interper-
sonal role-plays, hlgh-demand social stress, and relaxation. Com-
pared to abstainers, relapsers had higher heart rates and higher
perceived anxiety and were rated as less skillful at coping in the
smoking-spocific intrapersonal (negative affect) situations. There
were no differences on any measures in the high-performance-
demand general-social-stress procedure. There were some differences
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in heart rate and self-reported anxiety in the general social
situations and in heart rate in the relaxation interval, with relapsers
having higher levels than abstainers. Abstainers and relapsers did
not differ in heart rate, perceived anxiety, or coping skills in the
high-demand social anxiety procedure, but they did differ in the
other situations. The results suggest that selected situational
demands prompt situation.specific psychophysiological changes.
Rickard-Figueroa and Zeichner (1985) used a within-subjects
design to examine the responses of smokers to a confederate of the
experimenter lighting and smoking the subject's preferred brand of
cigarette behind a glass window. Cigarette paraphernalia were
placed adjacent to the subject but smoking was not permitted until
after the session. The cue exposure manipulation resulted in higher
urges to smoke, increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and
increased heart rate variability compared with a no-cue condition.
Urges were significantly positively correlated with diastolic blood
pressure, the use of active mastery to cope with urges, and the more
rapid smoking of a standard cigarette after the trial.
In a study that shows some evidence for a conditioned response,
Saumet and Dittmar (1985) measured finger-pulse amplitude, a
measure of peripheral vasoconstrictive activity, while subjects
placed an unlit cigarette into their mouths and waited for it to be lit.
Heavy smokers showed an anticipatory vasoconstrictive response to
the cigarette compared with light smokers and nonsmokers.
Abrams and colleagues (in press) used smoking cues and a social
stressor to simulate an interpersonal situation with high risk for
relapse. Relapsers, abstainers, and never smokers were examined for
psychophysiological reactivity. Compared with controls (never smok-
ers), relapsers had significant heart rate reactivity, stronger urges to
smoke, and subjective anxiety. Trained raters, unaware of subject
smoking status, judged relapsers as having significantly less effec-
tive coping skills to resist smoking. In a second study, the same
assessment was used prospectively in a treatment outcome context
to determine whether patterns of psychophysiological reactivity
could discriminate between quitters who maintain abstinence from
those who do not. Both heart rate reactivity and subjective anxiety
were greater in quitters who relapsed at 5-month followup compared
with those who continued to abstain. The groups did not differ with
regard to urges to smoke or behavioral judgments of coping skill.
Thus, the two studies were consistent for heart rate and perceived
anxiety but not for urges or objective ratings of coping effectiveness.
In a reanalysis of the heart rate data from Abrams and ¢oworkers
(in press), Niaura and colleagues (in press) examined beat by boat
event-related heart rate during the period immediately before and
for the 10 sec following the lighting of a cigarette by a confederate
(subjects did not smoke throughout). Prospective relapsers showed a
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strong decelerative trend at the point of lighting, whereas prospec-
tive abstainers did not, The results may reflect a conditioned
compensatory response (Siegel 1983) or some other information
prc~cessihg/attentlonal phenomenon (Sokolov 19(}3; Knott 1984). In
another treatment study, Emmons (1987) examined smokers' cardio-
vascular reactivity to mental arithmetic or deep knee bends before
and 6 months after smoking cessation. There was no change in
reactivity (heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure) to either
stressor before and after quitting. Heightened pretreatment heart
rate reactiv/ty significantly discriminated relapse at 6-month follow-
up.
Individual differences in psychophysiologlcal reactivity may influ-
ence the likelihood of relapse, This possibility is discussed in Chapter
VII.
Summary and Conclusions
i. Nicotine is a powerful pharmacologic agent that acts in the
brain and throughout the body. Actions include electrocertical
activation, skeletal muscle relaxation, and cardiovascular and
endocrine effects. The many biochemical and electrocortical
effects of nicotine may act in concert to reinforce tobacco use.
2. Nicotine acts sn specific binding sites or receptors throughout
the nervous system. Nicotine readily crosses the blood-brain
barrier and accumulates in the brain shortly after it enters the
body. Once in the brain, it interacts with specifie receptors and
alters brain energy metabolism in a pattern consistent with the
distribution of specific binding sites for the drug.
3. Nicotine and smoking exert effects on n~arly all components of
the endocrine and neuroendoerine systems (including catechol-
amines, serotonih, eortieosteroids, pituitary hormones). Some
of these endocrine effects are mediated by actions of nicotine
on brain neuretransmitter systems (e.g., hypothalamic-pitu-
itary axis). In addition, nicotine has direct peripherally mediat-
ed effects (e.g., on the adrenal medulla and the adrenal cortex).
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CHAPTER IV
TOBACCO USE
AS DRUG DEPENDENCE
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Cigarette Smoking: Controlled Drug Self-Administration
Measurement of Cigarette Smoking
Characterization of Cigarette Smoking Behavior
Patterns of Puffing and Inhaling
Dose-Related Determinants of Tobacco Intake
Control of Nicotine Intake
Smoke Concentration
Cigarette Length
Cigarette Brand
Cigarette Yield of Nicotine
Urine pH
Tobacco Administration and Deprivation
Nicotine Pretreatments
Nicotine Antagonist Pretreatnlents
Effects of Nonnicotinic Drugs on Cigarette Smoking
Effects of Nonnicotine Constituents of Tobacco Smoke
and Citric Acid Aerosol
Nicotine: Psychoaetivity, Reinforcing and Related Behav-
ioral Mechanisms of Nicotine Dependence
Interoceptive, Discriminative, and Subjective Effects
of Nicotine
Drug Discrimination Testing in Animals
Specificity of the Nicotine Stimulus
Peripheral Versus Central Discriminative Stimu-
lus Effects of Nicotine
Interactions with Noncholinergie Neurons
Subjective Effects of Nicotine in Humans
Psychoactivity of Nicotine
Sensory Effects of Nicotine
State-Dependent Learning
Nicotine as a Positive Reinforcer
Animal Studies of Nicotine as a Reinforcer
Human Studies of Nicotine as a Reinforcer
Nicotine as an Aversive Stimulus
Nicotine as an Unconditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Place Preference and Aversion
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Conditioned Taste Aversion and Rapid Smoking •
Nicotine: Withdrawal Reactions (Physical Dependence)
Criteria for Physical Dependence on Nicotine and
Clinical Characteristics of the Withdrawal Syn-
drome
Retrospective Survey Data
Prospective Data From Laboratory and Nonlaboratory
Studies
Time Course of Responses to Nicotine Abstinence
Alleviation of Withdrawal Symptoms by Cigarette
Smoking
Relationship Between Preabstinence Nicotine Intake
and Magnitude of Wi~thdrawal Syndrome
Smokeless Tobacco Withdrawal Syndrome
Nicotine Polacrilex Gum: Treatment and Physical De-
pendence
Treatment of Withdrawal Symptoms
Maintenance of Physical Dependence
Tobacco Craving
Alternate Nicotine Delivery Systems
Kinds of Nicotine Delivery Systems
Safety of Alternate I~icotine Delivery Systems.
Conclusions
References
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Introduction
This Chapter reviews the evidence that tobacco is a pharmacologi-
cally addicting substance and that tobacco use can be considered a
form of drug addiction. Specific criteria to identify a substance as
pharmacologically addicting are discussed in Chapters I and V. Iri
brief, the criteria are: (1) that highly controlled or compulsive
patterns of drug taking occur, (2) that a psychoactive or mood-
altering drug is ingested by use of the substance and is involved in
the resulting patterns of behavior, and (3) that the drug is capable of
functioning as a reinforcer that can directly strengthen behavior
leading to further drug ingestion. Addicting drugs can be character-
ised by other properties that include the following: they can produce
p!easurable effects in users, they can cause tolerance and physical
dependence, and they can have adverse or toxic effects. Drawing
upon data from studies of tobacco and nicotine, involving both
humans and animals, the present Chapter reviews the evidence that
tobacco meets the criteria as a pharmacologically addicting sub-
stance. A specific comparison of tobacco to other pharmacologically
addicting substances is provided in Chapter V.
Cigarette Smoking: Controlled Drug Self-AdmlnlatraUon
Highly controlled or compulsive drug use refers to drug-seeking
and drug-taking behavior that is driven by strong, often irresistible
urges. It can persist despite a desire to quit or even repeated
attempts to quit.
Basic observations and experimental research indicate that ciga-
rette smoking is not a random or capricious behavior that simply
occurs at the will or pleasure of those who smoke. Rather, smoking is
the result of behavioral and pharmacologic factors that lead to
highly controlled or compulsive use of cigarettes. The many consis-
tent patterns in cigarette smoking illustrate the controlled
nature of the behavior. For example, following initiation of smoking
the individual gradually increases cigarette intake over time until
he or she achieves a level that remains stable, day after day, during
the smoker's lifetime (Schuman 1977; US DHHS 1987a). The
dependent smoker tends to adopt a pattern in which the initial
cigarette of the day is smoked soon after waking (FagerstrSm 1978)
and in which smoking throughout the day is regular from day to day
(Griffiths and Henningfield 1982; Griffiths, Hcnningfield, Bigelow
1982). "Occasional" cigarette smoking (or "chipping") occurs just as
does occasional use of other addicting drugs (see Chapter V);
however, the 1985 National Health Interview Survey showed that
only 10.6 percent of current smokers smoke 5 or fewer cigarettes/day
(unpublished data, Office on Smoking and Health; see also Russell
1976 and US DHHS 1987a).
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Strong evidence that cigarette smoking is a highly controlled or
compulsive behavior is provided by survey data showing that a
majority of smokers have tried to quit or at least would like to quit.
For example, several Gallup surveys have shown that a large
majority of smokers report a desire to quit smoking; in fact, the
proportion of smokers who would like to quit increased from 66
percent in 1977 to 77 percent in 1987 (Gallup 1987), perhaps because
of a declining social acceptability of smoking and the growing
awareness of the health hazards of smoking. In addition, the 1986
Adult Use of Tobacco Survey (US DHHS 1987b) showed that 65
percent of cigarette smokers had made at least one serious attempt
to quit; another 21 percent said that they would try to quit "if there
were an ~asy way to do so" (Fiore etal., in press; US DHHS 1986).
The compulsive nature of cigarette smoking is most apparent in
extreme cases: for example, the laryngectomized patient who, having
already suffered severe consequences of smoking, continues to smoke
through a tracheostomy hole. Similarly, 50 percent or more of
patients recovering from surgery for a smoking-related disease
(e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease) resume smoking while in the
hospital or shortly after discharge (Burling, Singleton et al. 1986;
West and Evans 1986).
In this Section, the behavioral process of cigarette smoking and
the factors which determine the course of the behavior are described.
Evidence that cigarette smoking is repetitious and stereotypic,
common features of compulsive drug use, is reviewed in this Section,
as well as evidence that actions of nicotine are responsible for
patterns of smoking behavior. Initially, however, it is necessary to
briefly review the methods by which the behavioral process of
cigarette smoking is studied, as well as the main findings from such
studies.
Measurement of Cigarette Smoking
Cigarette smoking behavior may be analyzed at different levels
ranging from epidemiological surveys to the analysis of cigarette
puffing. In fact, many thousands of scientific articles have been
published in which some aspect of cigarette smoking is described.
Much of this research has been reviewed in the tobacco research
compendia of Larson and his colleagues (Lareon, Haag, Silvette 1961;
Larson and Silvette 1968, 1971, 1975), a previous report of the
Surgeon General (US DHEW 1979), several monographs of the
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Jarvik et al. 1977;
Kresnegor 1978, 1979a,b,c; Grabowski and Bell 1983; Grabowski and
Hall 1985) and in articles by others (Russell 1971, 1976; Gritz 1989;
Henningfield 1984).
It is characteristic of drug dependence that the drug-seeking and
self-administration behaviors become stereotypical and automatic in
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• Nicotinic alkyloids
• Additives
2- Pyrolysis products
• Carbon dioxide
• Carbon monoxide
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n~cotine
ulttmately abeorf~d is M much a function of smoker behsvlor as of cigarette characteristi¢~
80URCE: Hennln~eld (1984)
appearance; cigarette smoking is no excoptipn. The behavior of
lighting, smoking, and extinguishing cigarettes, including puffing
and inhaling, also becomes regular in smokers over time. The
measurement techniques that permit such conclusions, however,
must address a complex behavior. There are many variables (e.g.,
number of puffs, depth of inhalations) that might change and
thereby affect the intake of tobacco smoke and its various constitu-
ents (e.g., nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide (CO)). As shown in Figure 1,
the process of producing cigarette smoke constituents itself is
complex (see US DHEW 1979; US DHHS 1981, for amore thorough
discussion of these factors). This complexity emphasizes the impor-
tance of the use of careful measurement and multiple measures to
ensure accurate characterization of cigarette smoking.
Quantification of cigarette smoking behavior has improved with
the development of automated measurement techniques. These
techniques permit the measurement of puffing and inhalation both
in the laboratory (Gust, Pickens, Peehacek 1983; Epstein, Dickson,
Stiller et al. 1982; Creighten, Noble, Whewell 1978; Herning, Hunt,
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Jones 1983; Henningfield and Griffiths 1979; Puustinen et al. 1987)
and outside the laboratory (Henningfleld et al. 1980; Grabowski and
Bell 1983). Puffing behavior is generally measured by having
subjects smoke through cigarette holders that measure air flow by
use of either temperature-sensitive thermistors (Gritz, Rose, Jarvik
1983; FagerstrSm and Bates 1981) or pressure-asnsing transducers
(Henningfield and Griffiths 1979; Gust, Pickens, Pechaeek 1983a;
Rawbone et al. 1978). Inhalation behavior has been measured by a
variety of techniques, including mercury strain gauge pneumogra-
phy (Rawbone et al. 1978; Herning et al. 1983), head- and arms-out
whole-body plethysmography (Adams et al. 1983), and impedance
(Nil, Buzzi, B~ittig 1986) and inductive plethysmography (Herning,
Hunt, Jones 1983; Tobin and Sackner 1982; Tobin, Jenouri, Sackner
1982). Other methods include the use of inert gas radiotracers to
determine the amount of smoke inhaled (Sheahan et al. 1980;
Woodman et al. 1986) and a sensor for directly measuring the
concentration of smoke particles in the holder before puffing
(Jenkins and Gayle 1984).
These procedures have proved to be valuable and reliable methods
of measuring smoking behavior (Woodman et al. 1984; Herning,
Hunt, Jones 1983). Comparisons of data obtained when simply
observing smokers to data obtained when using the mechanical
devices indicate that such automated measuring techniques are
valid. Such comparisons reveal consistent findings on measures such
as number and duration of puffs and even of patterns of puffing
within cigarettes (Henningfield and Grifflths 1979; Griffitlis and
Henningfleld 1982). However, other research suggests that the
devices may alter certain characteristics of smoking such as intensi-
ty of puffing (Tobin and Sackner 1982; Ashton, Stepney, Thompson
1978; Ossip-Klein, Martin et al. 1983). In addition, some smoking
behaviors, such as blocking the ventilation holes of filters of low-
yield cigarettes (which can markedly influence nicotine and tar
intake from the cigarette) are thwarted by the use of a cigarette
holder. Nonetheless, such measurements are useful and appear to
provide valid means of evaluating the effects of specific experimental
manipulations.
Measurement of the intake of cigarette smoke constituents may
also be obtained by analysis of various biological fluids (saliva, urine,
or blood) and expired air. Chapter II reviewed the methods and
practical issues of using such specimens to assess resulting levels of
nicotine, cotinine (a nicotine metabolite), CO, and other tobacco-
associated compounds (see also Jarvis et al. 1987; Benowitz 1993).
Use of the methods described above has led to a much better
understanding of how cigarettes are smoked and factors that affect
intake of smoke constituents such as CO and nicotine. In addition,
these methods permit conclusions regarding which aspects of smok-
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ing are most robust across individuals, which aspects are strongly
influenced by pharmacologic factors, and which aspects appear to be
determined by other factors. Some of these findings are reviewed in
subsequent sections.
Characterization of Cigarette Smoking Behavior
Although the process of smoking a cigarette may appear to be a
simple behavior, it is actually a complex series of events; a full
characterization requires the measurement of a variety of interde-
pendent indices of frequency, duration, and volume. Even the act of
taking a single puff is complex. Typically, a smoker puffs a volume of
smoke into the mouth, where it is held for a short period of time
(Guillerm and Radziszewski 1978; Medici, Unger, RCiegger 1985). The
• puff itself can occur at any point during inhalation, although most
commonly it occurs toward the beginning of an inhalation (McBride
et al. 1984; Guillerm and Radziszewski 1978). During inhalation, the
puff is diluted with ambient air which may be inhaled through the
nose, the mouth, or both (Rodenstoin and Sttinescu 1985; McBride et
el. 1984; Adams etal. 1983). The postpuff inhalation is generally
longer and larger in volume than normal inspirations (Rodenstein
and Sttinescu 1985; McBride et al. 1984). After a variable period of
breath holding, the smoker exhales, usually through the mouth
(Redenstoin and St~inescu 1985).
All of the above-mentioned behavioral factors can alter nicotine
absorption. The likely impact of some factors is obvious (e.g., number
of puffs taken) (Kozlowski 1981); others are much more subtle (e.g.,
puff shape, which is a function of the air flow rate over time)
(Croighton and Lewis 1978b). Analogous but distinct from puffing
factors are inhalation factors (e.g., depth and duration, dilution of
the puff with ambient air) which can also determine the amount of
tobacco smoke constituents which are absorbed. Table 1 lists several
measures of cigarette smoking that have been objectively defined
and measured.
The relationships among these behavioral measures have been
studied. For instance, duration and volume of puffing are generally
highly correlated although they vary ~omewhat from smoker to
smoker (Gust and Pickens 1982; Epstein etal. 1982; Adams et al.
1983; NemethoCoslett and Griffiths 1985; Gust, Pickens, Pechacek
1983b; Gritz, Rose, Jarvik 1983). Peak smoke flow rate has been
reported to be moderately correlated with puff volume and weakly
correlated with puff duration (Gritz, Rose, Jarvik 1983). The
relationship between puff volume and interpuff interval is much
more variable (Adams et ah 1983; Gust, Pickens, Pechacek 1983b),
and puffs per cigarette and puff duration have been found to be
inversely related (Lichtenstein and Antonuccio 1981).
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TABLE ].--Behavioral measures of cigarette smoking
Puffing behavior
POf fs/cigarptte
In~tpuff interval
Puff duration
Sutt length 1weight}
Puff volume
Puff sha~
Puff now rate <puff intensity}
Peak Sow rate (pressure/
I~tency to peak Now rate <pre~ure}
Perccr=t puMng time
Inhalation behavior
Ir~halvtiorL volume
Inhalation duration
S~tbho]d duration
Lung exposure d~r~tion
Penni of puff inh~ed
When the smoking of individual cigarettes is studied, the mea-
sures of cigarette smoking behavior and the resulting levels of
biochemical markers have also been found to be highly correlated.
For example, four studies found positive correlations between one or
more of the behavioral measures and plasma nicotine levels (Pomer-
leau, Pomerleau, Majehrzak 1987; Sutton et ah 1982; Bridges et al.
1986; Herning et al. 1983). Using another approach, Zacny and
associates (1987) independently varied three aspects of smoking-puff
volume, inhalation volume, and lung exposure duration. They found
that increases in puff volume (from 15 to 60 mL) produced
proportional increases in plasma nicotine level, whereas increases in
inhalation volume (from 10 or 20 to 60 percent of vital capacity) or
lung exposure duration (from 5 to 21 sec) had no such effect.
CO intake (measured either from expired air or blood samples) also
tends to be positively related to measures of smoking behavior,
including total puff volume (Gust and Pickens 1982; Guillerm and
Radziszewski 1978; Nil, Buzzi, B~ittig 1984; Woodman et ah 1986) and
mean puff volume (Zacny et al. 1987; Zecny and Stitzer 1986).
McBride and coworkers (1984) found moderate correlations (r--0.36
to 0.45) between CO boost and other measures of ventilation (tidal
volume, minute ventilation, and prepuff expiratory volume). These
studies illustrate some of the ways that specific aspects of cigarette
smoking can affect absorption of smoke constituents. These mea-
sures have been used to scientifically describe many features of
cigarette smoking. A summary of findings that have emerged from
such studies is presented in the next Section.
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Patterns of Puffing and Inhaling
Several studies have characterized the behavior of cigarette
smoking in and outside the laboratory. The values of the most
frequently measured variables are shown in Table 2. Despite a wide
range of variations among studies, including differences in subject
population (age, gender, smoking history, type of cigarette smoked),
experimental setting, method used to collect the measurements,
apparatus calibration procedures, and operational definitions of the
measured variables, the findings among studies are strikingly
consistent.
Over the course of smoking each cigarette there are striking
consistencies from cigarette to cigarette, both within and between
• individuals. For example, during the smoking of a single cigarette,
the duration of each puff tends to decrease and/or the time between
each puff (interpuff interval) tends to increase (Graham et al. 1963;
Griffiths and Henningfield 1982; Nemeth-Coslett and Griffiths 1985;
Herning et al. 1981; Gust, Pickens, Pechaesk 1983b~ Woodman et al.
1986; Buzzi, Nil, B/ittig 1985; Adams et al. 1988; McBride et al. 1984;
Chalt and Griffiths 1982a). These trends were also found in
nonlaboratory observations by Sehulz and Seehofer (1978).
Although these observations reflect a tendency to decrease overall
intensity of smoking over the course of the cigarette, the specific
factors which produce such effects remain to be fully elucidated. The
pattern has been hypothesized to be related to the nicotine dose per
puff (Riokert et al. 1983; Russell et al. 1975; Chamberlain and
Higenbottam 1985), because the nicotine concentration of smoke
increases as the cigarette is smoked (Kozlowski 1981). However,
experimental studies suggest that within-cigarette changes in puff
intensity are not a simple function of the nicotine dose per puff
(Nemeth-Coslett and Oriffitbs 1984a,b, 1985). Furthermore, puff
volume may not be controlled by the same factors as puff duration
(Nemeth-Coslett and Griffiths 1985). Thus, the orderliness of the
behavior may be due to a variety of factors.
Various other aspects of puffing and inhaling during the smoking
of single cigarettes have been studied and provide further informa-
tion that helps to characterize this complex behavioral process. For
example, puff shape (puff intensity over time) (McBride et al. 1984),
latency to peak puff pressure (Buzzi, Nil, B~ittig 1985), and inhala-
tion volume and duration (Adams et al. 1983) did not change over the
course of smoking single cigarettes. The volume expired from puff to
puff during and immediately after puffing (before inhalation) was
lower for early puffs than for later puffs (Adams et al. 1983).
Woodman and colleagues (1988) reported that the amount of smoke
actually inhaled (range, 46 to 88 percent of puff volume) decreased
proportionately with puffvolume as cigarettes were smoked. Finally,
significant changes from cigarette to cigarette in puff volume and
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TABLE 2.--Published values of common measures of smoking
I~terp~ff Cigarette Puff Puff
Peak Inhalation
Number Puffsf
in.oval duration duration volume
flow ~[ume
Study of subjects cigarette t t~c) tseo
Isec) ~mL~ ImL/~ecl ~mL~
Rawbc~e et al fl~CqS)
Rawbone et al. fl9789
Woodman et aL (1986p
Nemeth~e~,ett et aL 11986a)
Nerneth~osletl et al~ ~1956"bl
Nil, Wccd~qn, BatIig I19851
Jarvlk eta[. 11978~
Runnel[ et al. (19~Ob~
Ashton, Stepney, Thompson (19781
Schu[z and Seehofer (1978b
Schulz and Seehofer 11978~
Henning~teld and GrilTiths (1981)
Stepney t1981)
Battig, Buzzi, Nil ~1982~
Epstein et al. (19~32)
Rtt~ell et aL (1982)
Gritz. R~e, Javclk (19~,)
(~zsip-Kleln, Martin et ol (1983)
O,~*ip-Klein. Martin eta]. I19~31
Guillerm and Rad:vszewski tl978)
Gust. Pickens. Pechacek 11983b)
12 10 41
9 10 35
9 13 18 254
8 8 64 414
8 8 47 362
132 13 28
9 10
10 11 35
14 24
IC~ 11 50
218 12 42
8 10 3~ 3,51
19 13 400
llO 13 26
63 13
12 15 26 324
8 9 47
9 8 , 3-51
9 12 339
8 12 41 390
8 9 48 393
L8
2.1 43
1.9 49 413
1.8
1.4
22 30 L~ 5,5~
15
14
13
10
2,4
23
22
14
1.9
1.9
1.6
40
21
66
39
44
35 915

Interpufl" Cigarette Pu/l" Pu/l" Pe~k
InhalaOon
Number Puffs/
interval du~tlon durati<~ volume
flow volume
Study of sub~'t s cigarette (~c) (~)
(see) (mLJ ImL/~l ImLl
Adams et al. (19~3) I0
26 1.9 44
614
Mood)" (19~4) 517 9 26 ~
21 44
Nil, Buzzl. Battlg I1964) 20 15 ~
1.6 40 4O
McBride et al. II~4~ 9 16 25 352
2.1 42
Me~icl, Unger, Rt~gger (198.5) 17 14 19
2-2 43 3]
Burllng eL a]. I19~51 24 12 28 330
1.7
Nil, Bull. B~ttlg (1966) 117 J3 22
2.1 42 36 4~0
Hugh~ et aL {19~I 46 I! •
1 6
Bridges et eLL (19861 1~ II
. 56
~N~ttstlnen et al (I~) 11 13
22 2,3 44
Hildlng (I~o6~ 27 10
Mean i] 34
346 1-8 43 36 59!
Median 11 28 351 1.9
4~5 35~5 560
:~,m~e 8-16 18-64 232-414 1.0-2.4
21~6 ~ 413-918
~nd in some ~ ,~ere ~l~ted f~lx~ rst her ,~ris~ or e~tlrm~ted f~ dm~ pr~'~ted in F~'ui'e~ mi~in~
value; iedlmt e that the ,mrlable was nat ree~r~l or wa~ eo~ F~.~n ted in lhe pub~i~
study.
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inhalation volume, as well as their ratio, were reported for indlvldu-
a] subjects over the course of a 4-hr smoking seselon (Hernlng, Hunt,
Jones 1988).
Dose-Related Determinants of Tobacco Intake
As the preceding material shows, cigarette smoking is a complex
but orderly behavior; it may be qualitatively and quantitatively
described. Furthermore, the behavioral process of tobacco smoke
self.administration substantially determines the amount of smoke
that is actually consumed. Similarly, the behavior of smoking may
change in response to factors related to the delivered smoke and/or
nicotine dose. These interactions are described in the present section.
Much of this research has addressed issues concerning the manipula-
tion of some aspect of cigarette and/or nicotine dose level. Such data
are relevant to comparing this form of drug self-administration with
,other forms of drug self-administration, because one of the basic
findings in studies of drug-seeking behavior is that the dose may
affect the behavior. For example, when the dose (quantity) of a
psychoactive drug is high, fewer doses are generally taken compared
to when the dose is very low (Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield 1980;
Chapter V).
With regard to cigarette smoking, the control and measurement of
cigarette dose level is more complex than is the ease with most other
' forms of drug delivery. For example, in opioid and alcohol studies,
~he amount of the morphine injected and volume of alcohol
consumed can be precisely measured, but cigarette snmke can vary
in levels of CO, tar, nicotine, and many other potentially important
constituents (see Figure 2). The total smoke dose is positively related
to the number of puffs taken per cigarette, However. total smoke
dose might be changed by diluting the smoke with air or changing
the number of available cigarettes. Alternatively, the smoke concen-
trations can be kept constant while changes are made in the
concentration of nicotine delivered. This Section reviews these and
several other strategies used to investigate some form of tebac-
co/nicotine dose manipulation and the resultant effects on cigarette
smoking.
Control of Nicotine Intake
Among the most robust findings in research on cigarette smoking
is the stability of nicotine intake that occurs from day to day within
cigarette smokers. Several studies have collected blood samples from
cigarette smokers while they are smoking their own cigarettes
(Russell, Jarvls et aL 1980; Benowitz et al. 1983; Gori and Lynch
1985). This research has shown that blood levels of nicotine and
cotinine among different cigarette smokers are stable and are
relatively independent of the machine-estimated nicotine yield of the
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cigarettes. Similarly. there are generally only modest correlations
between the number of cigarettes smoked per day and resultant
blood nicotine levels. This finding occurs because smokers consume
different amounts of nicotine from their cigarettes, according to how
the cigarettes are smoked. Figure 2 presents data from one of these
studies.
To explain why nicotine intake is not simply determined by the
machine-estimated nicotine yield of the cigarettes or the number of
cigarettes smoked, many other aspects of smoking have been
measured. This research is described in the remainder of this
Section.
Smoke Concentrati~)n
T.he concentration of tobacco smoke delivered to the lung can be
changed by dilution with air. Such dilution is an important means by
which the low smoking-machino-estimated ratings (e.g., Federal
Trade Commission ratings) of tar and nicotine are achieved in the so-
called "light" or "ultra light" cigarettes (Kozloweki 1981, 1982, 1986,
1987). One way to study the possible effects of smoke dilution is to
use the ventilated cigarette holders which have been marketed for
persons who are trying to quit smoking. In principle, the smoker
gradually reduces his or her level of dependence to nicotine by using
holders of gradually increasing ventilation level. Three laboratory
studies have evaluated the effects of such holders on cigarette
smoking behavior (Henningfleld and Griffiths 1980; Sutton et al.
1978; Martin et al. 1980). The results of all three were consistent:
smoking was more intense at lower smoke concentrations and less
intense at the highest concentration. In fact, in one of the studies,
expired air CO levels were similar at all four concentration levels,
indicating that the changes in smoking intensity were suffieient to
defeat the holders' intended purpose of reducing the dose taken
(Henningfield and Griffiths 1980). Using a somewhat different
strategy, Zacny, Stitesr, and Yingling (1986) studied cigarette
smoking with commercially available ventilated cigarettes. When
the experimenter systematieally blocked the filter vents of "ultra"
low-yield cigarettes, there were decreases in puffs per cigarette, puff
volume, and puff flow rate, and increases in interpuff interval.
These laboratory findings are consistent with findings obtained
outside the laboratory when the cigarette butts of vented cigarettes
are examined following smoking. Koslowski, Riekert, Pope, and
Robinson (1982) found that the eigarette butts taken from people
who blocked the ventilation holes (often inadvertently) were more
stained by tar and nicotine, reflecting loss effective dilution and
hence greater amounts of smoke delivery to the smoker. Data from a
laboratory study suggest that 40 percent or more of smokers may
inadvertently block the holes (Kozlowski, Rickert, Pope, Robinson,
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1000
..J
800
.o_
6O0
8
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20(]
o- 1 observation
• - 2 observations
• -3 observations
a.4 observations
O • o •
::o Oo = <o.ot
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t
00 0,~ 0,4 0.6 0,B 101,2 1.4 1,b 18 2,0
FTC nicotine yield (mg)
FIGURE 2.--Afternoon blood cotinine concentrations,
c.ompared by regression analysis with number
of cigarettes smoked/day (A) and with U.S.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC).determined
nicotine yield (B)
NOTE: The grouped imokers' values (observatioas 2-41 were r,o ~imiLar l• individual value~ Khat
plots
overlapped Tolal humor of subj~ in B is Lower because da~a for a few ~ubjeets were ln~omplete
Mot~i~g blo.~
¢otinine ¢~ocent ration~ (~ot I~how~) w~re on I=ver~ ~li~htly lower, but had similar ¢orrelation~
with number of
eigaretce~ (r.0451 and FTC yield (r=O.061.
SOURCE: BenowLlz et ELI, {198ai
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Frecker 1982). These findings imply that there is much greater .
exposure to cigarette smoke in the general population than one
would expect based solely on the market share of ventilated
cigarettes (US DHHS 1981; Kozlowski 1987).
Cigarette Length
When cigarettes are shorter, people smoke more of them (Ashten,
Stepney, Thompson 1978; Goldfarb and Jarvik 1972; Grits, Baer-
Weiss, Jarvik 1976; Jarvik et al. 1978; Chait and Griffiths 1982b).
Cigarette length may also affect how people smoke each cigarette.
Asbton, Stepney, and Thompson (1978) found that smokers short-
ened their intervals between puffs and spent a greater proportion of
time' puffing on two-thirds-length cigarettes compared with fullo
length cigarettes, Russell, Sutton, and associates (1980) reported that
smokers took relatively more puffs and left shorter butts when
smoking shortened cigarettes. In another study, subjects smoking
half-length cigarettes shortened the interval between puffs, but did
not spend more time puffing on these cigarettes relative to full-
length cigarettes (Chait and Griffiths 1982b). Puff duration and puff
volume were inversely proportional to the length of the tobacco rod,
even for the first puff of the cigarette (Chait and Griffiths 1982a;
Nemeth-Co~lett and Griffiths 1984a,b, 1985).
Cigarette Brand
Numerous studies have examined the effects of cigarette brand
manipulations on cigarette smoking, and several reviews are avail-
able (Gritz 1980; Moss and Prue 1982; McMorrow and Foxx 1983).
Such studies are of practical importance because smokers often
switch to lower tar/nicotine yielding cigarette brands in an effort to
reduce this exposure to toxins and to reduce their level of nicotine
dependence (see Chapter VII). One finding of these studies is that the
number of cigarettes smoked per day is only slightly increased when
lower nicotine-yield brands are used. For this reason, it has been
suggested that smokers switch to lower yield cigarette brands (1) to
reduce exposure to smoke constituents and (2) to help them
gradually reduce their dependence on nicotine (see discussion of
these issues in US DHHS 1981 and in Chapter VII (nicotine fading)).
However, as discussed earlier, several other studies indicate that
there is little correlation between the nicotine rating of a cigarette
and the plasma nicotine level of the smoker (Russell, Jarvis et al.
1980; Benowlts et al. 1983; Gori and Lynch 1985). Kozlowski (1981,
1982) has observed that increases of only one or two puffs per
cigarette and possibly other more subtle changes in cigarette
smoking (e.g., blocking ventilation holes and taking deeper inhala-
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tions) may defeat the intended purpose of the brand-switching
procedure.
Laboratory studies have provided information on the specific
changes in smoking behavior that may reduce the intended impact of
switching to lower yield brands of cigarettes. One confounding factor
in such studies is that machine-estimated nicotine, tar, and CO yields
do not necessarily change to the same degree or even in the same
direction from one cigarette brand to the next (Tobacco Reporter
1985); thus. no definitive conclusions can be drawn about which
specific smoke component was responsible for observed changes in
smoking behavior. Nonetheless, some orderly and consistent findings
emerge from a review of this literature. Several measures suggest
that when tobacco smoke constituent ratings decline, smoking is
more intense so that more smoke is delivered per cigarette;
conversely, when tobacco smoke constituent ratings are higher,
cigarette smoking becomes less intense (Frith 1971; Ashton, Stepney,
Thompson 1979; Stepney 1981; Guillerm and Radziszewski 1978;
Rawbene et al. 1978; Adams 1978; Creighton and Lewis 1978a; Ossip-
Klein, Epstein et al. 1983; Russell et al. 1982; Ashten and Watson
1970; Epstein et al. 1981; Russell, Epstein, Dickson 1983; Tobin and
Sackner 1982; Fagerstr6m and Bates 1981; Woodman et al. 1987).
The consensus of the foregoing studies is that smokers tend to
smoke in ways that minimize the effect of attempted reductions in
nicotine intake; however, brand preferences can modulate nicotine
intake. One study employing biochemical measures of smoke intake
illustratedboth of these phenomena (Benowitz and Jacob 1984).
Subjects were permitted to smoke under each of three cigarette
conditions: using their regular cigarette, using a higher nicotine-
yield brand, and using a lower nicotine-yield brand. Subjects
maintained significant nicotine intake under all three conditions,
but the highest intakes of nicotine were with the subject's preferred
brand. Nicotine intake from the lower nicotine-yield brands was
somewhat lower than intake from the higher yield brands. Taken
together, these studies indicate that brand switching may result in
somewhat decreased levels of intake of nicotine and other constitu-
ents of tobacco smoke. However, because of compensatory changes in
how cigarettes are smoked and in the number of cigarettes smoked,
the decreases are substantially less than would have been predicted
on the basis of the machine-estimated yield of the cigarettes.
Cigarette Yield of Nicotine
Research cigarettes which vary mainly in machine-estimated
nicotine yield ratings but little in the yield of other constituents (e.g.,
tar, CO) have also been used in laboratory and nonlaberatory studies
of cigarette smoking. This literature has been extensively reviewed
(Russell 1971, 1976; Gritz 1980; Henningfield 1984; US DHEW 1979;
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US DHHS 1981}. The consensus of the literature indicates that as
nicotine yield increases, the number of cigarettes smoked per day
tends to decrease, although the converse relationship is not as robust
(Russell 1979). Because few of these studies employed measures of
smoking other than number of cigarettes smoked per day, the degree
to which overall cigarette smoking behavior actually varied as a
function of such manipulations may have been underestimated
(Henningfield 1984).
Laboratory studies in which multiple behavioral measures of
cigarette smoking were employed indicate that smoking is sensitive
to nicotine dose manipulations. When cigarettes with higher nicotine
yield ratings are smoked, there are decreases in measures such as
puffs per cigarette, puff duration and puff volume, number of
cigarettes, and expired air CO; and increases in interpuff and
intercigaretto interval (the specific measures were not identical for
the three studies summarized) (Herning et al. 1981; Gust and
Pickens 1982; McBride et al. 1984). These changes in smoking are
consistent with the interpretation that intensity of smoking is
inversely related to nicotine dose, indicating that compensatory
changes in smoking could be affected by nicotine itself.
Urine pH
Because some nicotine is normally eliminated in the urine,
manipulations of the rate of nicotine excretion might be expected to
change cigarette smoking behavior (see Chapter II). Rate of renal
excretion is partially determinedby the acidity of the urine: lower
pH values (higher acidity) increase the rate of nicotine excretion.
One study showed that acidification of the urine of cigarette smokers
resulted in small increases in cigarettes smoked per day, and
alkalinization of urine was accompanied by only very small de-
creases in smoking (Schachter, Kozlowski, Silverstein 1977). A
subsequent study in which urine pH was varied showed no change in
cigarette smoking measures (Cherek, Mauroner, Brauchi 1982);
another showed small but significant effects on nicotine intake in
the expected direction (Benowitz and Jacob 1985).
The fact that there is a direct albeit weak relationship between
rate of nicotine excretion and cigarette smoking has suggested to
some that alkaline diets might be useful for persons trying to
decrease their cigarette smoking (Fix and Daughton 1981; Fix et al.
1983; Grunberg and Kozlowski 1986). However, the relatively small
amount of systemic nicotine which is eliminated by this route
(approximately 2 percent in alkaline urine, 10 percent in urine
without controlled pH) (Rosanberg et al. 1980; Benowitz and Jacob
1985; Chapter II) weakens its practical significance as a determinant
of cigarette smoking behavior. The results of clinical studies suggest
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that such therapies are not useful in the cessation of smoking (see
also Grunberg and Kozlowski 1986; Schwartz 1987).
Tobacco Administration and Deprivation
When tobacco smoke itself is given or withheld, the tendency to
smoke, as well as the way cigarettes are smoked, may be affected.
Kumar and colleagues (1977) reported that pretreating smokers with
a varying number of uniform puffs of tobacco smoke produced dose-
related reductions in the subsequent number of puffs taken, volume
per puff, and total puff volume during a 40-rain period of smoking ad
libitum. In a study of similar design, Chair, Russ, and Griffiths (1988)
found that an increasing number of uniform pretreatment puffs
decreased subsequent puffs per cigarette, cigarette duration, and
total puff duration. Analogously, when the number of puffs available
during any period of smoking (smoking "bout") during a given day
was varied by the experimenter from 1 to 12 while the smokers were
free to vary the interbout interval, the intervals between each
smoking bout were directly related to the number of puffs that had
been given (Oriffiths, Henningfield, Bigelow 1982). These studies
show that cigarette smoke intake is a function of time since the last
cigarette or the smoke dose given at any smoking opportunity.
Whereas smoke pretreatment decreases several measures of
cigarette smoke intake, other studies have found that deprivation for
just :~ hr increases the tendency to smoke and elevates several
measures of tobacco smoke intake (Henningfield and Griffiths 1979);
furthermore, these effects were not due to "anticipation" by the
subjects of the periods of smoke deprivation (Griffiths and Henaing-
field 1982). Several additional studies have confirmed that smoke
deprivation increases one or more measures of cigarette smoking
(Karanci 1985; Grifflths and Hennlngfield 1982; Zacny and Stitzer
1985; Epstein et al. 1981). Sutton and coworkers (1982) found a small,
but statistically significant, positive correlation between time since
the last cigarette and total puff volume on the subsequent cigarette.
Simi]arily, when the interval between each smeking opportunity was
varied from 7.5 to 120 rain and subjects were free to take as many
puffs per smoking bout as they pleased, the number of puffs per bout
was directly related to the duration of the preceding interbout
interval (Griffiths, Henningfield, Bigelow 1982). Restricting the
number of cigarettes that may be smoked is another way to study
tobacco deprivation. When smokers who on average smoked 37
clgarettes/day were permitted to smoke only 5 cigarettes/day, they
consumed three times as much nicotine per cigarette compared with
unrestricted smoking (Benowitz et al. 1986).
The results of studies of the effects of tobacco administration and
deprivation on subsequent rates and patterns of cigarette smoking
show that tobacco smoke can function as do other primary reinforc-
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ers such as food, water, and dependence-producing drugs (Thompson
and Schuster 1964). Such studies in themselves, however, do not
reveal which of the many tobacco smoke constituents are critical.
The next two sections will examine evidence that specific manipula-
tions of nicotine and nicotine antagonists can produce analogous
changes in cigarette smoking.
Nicotine Pretreatments
One of the basic ways to demonstrate that a psychoactive drug is
serving as a reinforcer is to determine if pretreatment with the drug
leads to decreases in the amount subsequently taken. Such findings
have been obtained with. a variety of dependence-producing drugs
(e.g., Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfisld 1980; Chapter V), and .the
strategy has been used to study the role of nicotine in cigarette
smoking. These studies have shown that nicotine pretreatment by a
variety of routes decreases the amount and/or intensity of subse-
quent cigarette smoking although the specific measures that have
been reportedly affected vary across studies. It is possible that
differences across studies reflect variations in sensitivity of measure-
ment techniques and in the measures used.
Cigarette smokers may be pretreated with nicotine by giving them
nicotine polaerilex gum to chew. The gum is available in similar
tasting nicotine dose levels of 2 or 4 mg/piece. A similar tasting
placebo preparation with no nicotine is also available. (In the United
States, the placebo and d-rag dose are only available for research.)
With various combinations of nicotine gum doses it is possible to
provide a wide range of dose levels. In one study, the chewing of
nicotine polacrilex gum produced a dose-related (dose range -- O to 8
mg nicotine) decrease in cigarette consumption during subsequent
90-rain cigarette smoking sessions: Total puffs, total cigarettes, and
expired-air CO levels were inversely related to nicotine dose; desire
to smoke was also inversely related to dose btit this effect varied
considerably and was not statistically reliable (Nemeth-Coslett etal.
1987). Comparable findings have been obtained in several other
studies, although dose manipulations were not as extensive as in the
former study (Kozlowski, Jarvik, Grits 1975; Nemeth-Coslett and
Henningfield 1986; Brantmark, Ohlin, Westling 1973; Russell et al.
1976; Herning, Jones, Fischman 1985). Another study showed that
nicotine given in capsule form also reduced subsequent cigarette
smoking (Jarvik, Gllck, Nakamura 1970), although the low dose and
poor systemic absorption of nicotine given by this route (see Chapter
IID required that much higher dose levels be given (1O mg).
Two studies have also demonstrated that intravenous (i.e.) admin-
istration of nicotine decreases cigarette smoking (Lucchesi, Schuster,
Emley 1967; Henningfield, Miyasato, Jasinski 1983). Another study
found no change in smoking following i.e. nicotine infusions (Kumar
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eta]. 1977); however, the dose (equivalent to about 1.7 rag, given in
10 divided doses over 10 rain) was probably inadequate, as suggested
by results of other studies (Nemeth-Coslett et al. 1987). The finding
that even i,v.-delivered nicotine can reduce subsequent cigarette
smoking confirms that neither the tobacco vehicle nor the
oral/respiratory route are necessary for nicotine to control behavior.
The overall consistency of findings using a variety of forms of
nicotine pretreatment is evidence for a specific effect of nicotine as a
determinant of cigarette smoking.
Nicotine Antagonist Pretreatments
Another way to evaluate the specific role of nicotine as a
determinant of rate and pattern of cigarette smoking is to adminis-
ter drugs that block the effects of nicotine on the nervous system.
Nicotine antagonists (gengllbnie biockers) are available as drugs
(e.g., pentelinium and bexamethonium) that do not readily enter the
brain but are active in the peripheral nervous system, and as drugs
(e.g., meeamylamine) that do enter the brain and thus work in both
the peripheral and central nervous system (CNS) (Taylor et el.
1985b). In theory, such drug administration should produce effects
that are analogous to those that would be expected if the nicotine
dose of cigarettes was decreased: that is, smoke intake should
increase. Moreover, if smoke intake increases, but only when the
centrally acting antagonist is given, such data would suggest the
critical involvement of the effects of nicotine in the brain.
Three studies showed that pretreatmont of smokers with meeamy-
lamine produced increases in cigarette smoking that resembled those
expected if the nicotine dose of the cigarettes had been decreased
(Stelerman et el. 1973; Nemeth-Coslett et al. 1986a; Pomerleau,
Pomerleau, M~jchrzak 1987). In each of these studies, the short-term
effect of the nicotine antagonists was studied. Similarly, mecamyla-
mine pretreatment increased the preference for high nicotine-yield
cigarette smoke (apparently by reducing its nicotinic effects) when
subjects were tested with n device which blends smoke from high and
low nicotine-yield cigarettes (Rose, Sampson, Henningfield 1985).
The role of nicotine action in the brain was demonstrated in the
study by Stelerman and colleagues (~973) in which n nicotine blocker
(pentolinium) that does not readily enter the bruin produced no
effects on cigarette smoking.
Effects of Nonnieotinie Drugs on Cigarette Smoking
In addition to nicotine and nicotine antagonists, the effects of
other psychoactive drugs on cigarette smoking have been studied in
the laboratory. Such studies are important insofar as they constitute
drug-interaction studies whereby it may be determined if the
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behavioral and physiological actions of nicotine are altered as a
function of pretreatment with other drugs. In addition, studies of
int~racticas of nicotine with other dependence-producing drugs are
important because tobacco use generally precedes and accompanies
use of many other dependence-producing drugs (Chapter V). Several
classes of psychoactive drugs have been administered in studies in
which cigarette smoking was specifically measured. In general, the
results permit a categorization of these drugs into two groups: (1)
those drugs that produce increases in smoking under standard test
conditions, and (2) those drugs that produce little reliable effect on
cigarette smoking under standard test conditions.
Sedatives, opioid agonists, and psychomotor stimulants have been
shown capable of producing robust and dose-related increases in
cigarette smoking. Specifically, alcohol (ethanol) has been shown to
increase cigarette smoke intake (Griffiths, Bigelow, Liebsen 1976;
Henningfield, Chait, Griffltks 1984; Nil, Buzzi, B~ttig 1984; Mintz st
al. 1985; Mello et al. 1980b). In a study in which alcohol was found to
increase smoking in all of five alcoholic subjects tested, pentobarbitel
(a depressant) was found to increase smoking in the two subjects
with extensive histories of barbiturate use (Henningfield, Chait,
Griffiths 1984). The effects of alcohol and pentebarbital were most
robust in heavier drinkers and alcoholics (Henningfield, Chait,
Griffiths 1983, 1984). The opioid agonists, heroin and methadone,
-increase cigarette smoking in opioid users (Mello et al. 1980a; Chait
and Griffiths 1984). Methadone produced dose-related increases in
number of cigarettes and puffs, and in puff duration in methadone-
maintained smokers (Chnit and Griffiths 1984). Analogously, num-
ber of cigarettes smoked per day gradually decreased as methadone-
maintained clients had their daily methadone doses decreased over
several weeks (Bigelow et al. 1981). Finally, the psychomotor
stimulant d-amphetamine increases a variety of measures of ciga-
rette smoking (Henningfield and Oriffiths 1981; Chait and Griffitks
1983).
Three other drugs have been studied and found to produce little
reliable effect on cigarette smoking. Caffeine is of interest because it
might be predicted to either increase smoking by its general
stimulant (amphetamine-like) effects (Rall 1985) or to decrease
smoking by serving as a substitute for some of nicotine's stimulant
effects (Kozlowski 1976). Laboratory studies, however, have found
the effects of caffeine administration on cigarette smoking to be
weak and inconsistent: two studies showed no reliable effect (Chair
and Grlffiths 1983; Nil, Buzzi, B~ttig 1984), another showed weak
decreases in smoking (Kozlowski 1976), and a fourth showed weak
increases in smoking following caffeine administration (Ossip and
Epstein 1981).
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The opioid antagonist naloxone (naloxone blocks effects of heroin-
llke opioids) is another drug of interest because of the possible role of
endogenous opioids as mediators of some of the effects of nicotine
(Chapter ]II; Pomerleau and Pomerleau 1984). In a test paradigm in
which several drugs have been shown to produce orderly effects on
cigarette smoking (Griffiths and Henningfield 1982), naloxone
produced no consistent changes in cigarette smoking over a wide
range of dose levels (Nemeth-Coslett and Griffiths 1986). Another
study of the effect of naloxone which employed a single dose found a
reduction in smoking (Karras and Kane 1980). No clear reconcilia-
tion of these disparate findings is evident. Finally, marijuana
pretreatment was found to produce no reliable effect an tobacco
intake (Mello et al. 1980b; Nemeth-Coslett et al. 1986b) or on the way
cigarettes were smoked (Nemeth-Coslett et el. 1986b).
Effects of Nonninotine Constituents of Tobacco Smoke and
Citric Acid Aerosol
Chemicals presumed to act primarily in the respiratory tract and
not in the central nervous system may also affect smoking. The
region of the trachea just below the larynx is assumed to be a site of
some cigarette smoke related sensations (Cain 1980). This site
corresponds to the region 2 cm below the narrow opening of the
larynx where particles entering the trachea change direction (Chan
and Sohreck 1980).
The components of cigarette tar and volatile .gases in smoke
contribute to the taste, olfactory, and tracheobronchial sensations
elicited by cigarette smoke. In fact, minimal levels of tar are held by
tobacco manufacturers to be important to maintain product satisfac-
tion in smokers (Tobacco Reporter 1985; Gori 1980). Besides its
causal role in lung cancer and other diseases (US DHHS 1982, 1983,
1984), tar may function to mask the harshness and irritation of
nicotine (Herskovic, Rose, Jarvik 1986). Consistent with this hypoth-
esis, nicotine aerosols delivering doses of nicotine similar to those in
mainstream cigarette smoke are rated as extremely harsh and
irritating by cigarette smokers (Russell 1986). Similarly, some
gaseous components of smoke, such as acrolein and formaldehyde,
are irritating and could also contribute to the tracheobronchial
sensations elicited by smoke (Lundberg et al. 1983).
Levels of tar and other constituents may also contribute to brand
preferenceand, conversely, to the difficulty in finding readily
acceptable substitutes for the cigarettes normally smoked by individ-
uals. For example, a nonmentholated cigarette may not be a
desirable substitute for a mentholated one. Moreover, when given
cigarettes made of lettuce or cocoa leaves, smokers complain about
the unpleasant smell and taste (Goldfarb, Jarvik, Glick 1970;
Herskovio, Rose, darvik 1986). Tobacco research cigarettes are often
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found to be less palatable than commercial brands (Benowitz, Kuyt,
Jacob 1982), indicating the importance of specific tobacco blends
and/or additives in determining taste and brand preferences.
The precise nature of the sensations critical to smoking satisfac-
tion has not been elucidated, and the relative roles of taste, olfaction,
and tracheobronchial sensations are not clear. One way to assess the
importance of local respiratory sensations in the subjective response
to cigarette smoke is to block these sensations with a short-actlng
topical anesthetic. Two studies have used inhalation of a 4-percent
lidocaine aerosol and mouth rinses and gargling with lidocaine
solutions to assess the importance of airway sensations to cigarette
smokers (Rose et al. 1984, 1985). In both studies, the desirability of
puffs was decreased by local anesthesia of the respiratory tract.
Additionally, the decline in reported craving for cigarettes that
usually occurs after smoking was diminished by local anesthesia.
A study was also conducted in which smokers inhaled a refined
tobacco smoke condensate (Rose and Behm, in press). The condensate
produced a low overall nicotine yield (about 0.2 rag/10 puffs), while
maintaining a higher ratio of nicotine to tar and a larger particle
size than that of conventional cigarette smoke. Smoke generated in
this fashion was rated as stronger and harsher than smoke of
equivalent nicotine content delivered by smoking a conventional
low-tar and low-nicotine cigarette (Rose and Behm 1987). The
subjects also reported significantly greater satisfaction and dimin-
ished desire to smoke additional cigarettes after inhaling puffs of
refined smoke compared with conventional low-nicotine cigarette
smoke (Rose and Behm 1987). These studies demonstrate that local
sensory effects of smoke may influence the short-term subjective
responses to smoking.
The inhalation of aerosols containing citric acid is a standard
method of eliciting coughing in human subjects (Pounsford and
Saunders 1985). One study found that smokers inhaling puffs of a
nebulized 15 percent aqueous solution of citric acid reported
sensations of strength and harshness comparable to those produced
by their own cigarette brand and considerably stronger than those
elicited by an "ultra" low-tar, low-nicotine cigarette (Rose and
Hickman 1987). Moreover, some pleasure was reported to be
associated with these sensations, and desire for c!garettes was
decreased, suggesting that mild irritation of the respiratory airways
may be involved in satiation of smoking behavior and may have a
role in smoking cessation efforts (Hennlngfield 1987c; Chapter VID.
Nicotine: Psychoactlvlty, Reinforcing and Related Behavioral
Mechanisms of Nicotine Dependence
As the preceding sections have shown, cigarette smoking is an
orderly behavioral and pharmacologic process clearly involving
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maintenance of the desired levels of nicotine in the body. These data
are sufficient to label tobacco use as a form of drug self-administra-
tion in which the role of nicotine in controlling tobacco self-
administration functions as do morphine, ethanol, and cocaine in
the use of opium-derived products, alcoholic beverages, an([ eoca-
derived products, respectively. However, the question may he asked
whether the behavior-controlling pharmacologic properties of nic-
otine are similar to those of prototypic dependence-preducing drugs
when evaluated in standard laboratory tests. More specifically, the
scientific question is whether nicotine itself shares critical depen-
dence-producing properties with drugs such as morphine, cocaine,
and alcohol. Standardized testing procedures can be used in both
animal and human studies to obJectively determine if a drug is
dependence producing: These procedures, as well as a review of how
addicting drugs control behavior, is presented in Chapter V. Chapter
V also presents data obtained when drugs such as morphine, cocaine,
and alcohol are tested by identical procedures.
In brief, four general kinds of behavior-modifying drug effects can
be differentiated on the basis of the test procedure used. These drug
effects are discussed in Chapter V and include the following: (l)
Drugs may produce intereceptice stimulus effects; that is, they can
produce effects that a person or animal can distinguish from the
nondrug state. Although not identical in meaning, the following
terms are often used to designate interoceptive drug effects: "psy-
choactive," "discriminative," "subjective," "self-reported." (2) Drugs
may serve as positive reinforcers or rewards, the presentation of
which produces repetition and strengthening of the behaviors which
led to their presentation, i.e., "drug self-administration" or "drug
seeking." (3) Drugs can serve as unconditioned stimuli, in which case
they may directly elicit various responses; these responses may
subsequently be elicited by stimuli which are associated with the
drug (i.e., conditioned stimuli), including the presence of environ-
mental, or even internal, cues. (4) Drug administration or abstinence
can also function as "punishers" or aesreive stimuli.
This Section will present data from studies of nicotine with each of
the four testing procedures mentioned above. The convergence of
findings from several distinct approaches provides compelling evi-
dence that nicotine is a drug that can effectively control behavior,
including behavior leading to its own ingestion (i.e., dependence or
addiction).
Interoceptive, Discriminative, and Subjective Effects of
Nicotine
Ingested chemicals can serve as stimuli by actions on either
peripheral or centrally located receptors or by indlrect affects
mediated through the release of various blochemicals or neurohor-
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rashes. In general, the term "psychoactive" is reserved for those
drugs whose discriminative effects are known to result from their
actions in the brain. As described by Lewin (1931) and others
(T1~mpson and Unna 1977) it is, in part, the nature of the
disdriminative stimulus effects of a drug within the body that set the
dependence-producing drugs apart from other non-nutritive sub-
stances. As shown in Chapter If, all commonly used forms of tobacco
are effective means of delivering nicotine to the blood from which it
is rapidly transported to the brain. Research with animals has shown
that nicotine produces distinct effects in the central nervous system
(CNS). In addition, nicotine has diverse peripheral and hormonal
actions that could serve to intensify its CNS stimulus properties. The
biochemical mechanisms of these effects are discussed in Chapter Ill,
Three procedurally distinct methods have been used to character-
ize the stimulu§ properties of nicotine and will be discussed in the
following sequence: (1) discrimination testing in animals and hu-
mans, (2) assessing subjective effects in humans, and (3) testing for
state-dependent learning effects in humans. Each method has been
used to help characterize the stimulus properties of a variety of
drugs including nicotine (Chapter V).
Drug Discrimination Testing in Animals
Animal studies of nicotine discrimination show that nicotine
produces reliable effects that are readily identified by the subjects.
Such studies indicate that fundamental biobehavioral mechanisms
mediate the psychoactive properties of nicotine in humans, and that
such effects are not unique to human psychological processes. These
date also have implications for understanding and treating tobacco
dependence and are summarized below,
Specificity of the Nicotit~e Stimulus
Although dependence-producing drugs may overlap, to some
degree, in the nature of their effects on mood and feeling, each drug
class and sometimes drugs within a class produce unique effects. As
this Section shows, nicotine also produces some effects that permit it
to be distinguished from most other psychoactive drugs. These
studies are also useful for testing new drugs that are thought to
produce nicetine-like effects.
Rats can learn to accurately discriminate nicotine from placebo
regardless of the route of administration as long as the nicotine
reaches the brain. Most researchers have utilized the subcutaneous
(s.c.) route of administration (Rosecrans and Mcltser 1981); however,
more recent studies have incorporated other routes of nicotine
administration and have found that rats could learn to discriminate
nicotine when given nicotine by gavage (oral tube) in a dose of 0.5
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mg/kg (Howard and Craft 1987). Oral nicotine-trained rats general-
ized to nicotine administered via either the s,c. or transdermal
routes (nicotine solution was applied to a 1.5-cm circular area on the
shaved back of the rat). There was little difference in dose potency
between the oral and s.c. routes; however, the transdermal route was
much less potent and required eight times the oral dose to establish
equivalent response patterns. Taken together, the results of these
studies showed that nicotine given by a variety of routes produces
time- and dose-related discriminative effects.
Several studies have compared nicotine with a variety of drugs by
these drug discrimination testing procedures (Rosecrans and Meltser
1981; Stolerman et al. 1987). Early research involved testing a wide
variety of chemicals. These studies showed that nlcotine-trained rats
did not generalize to drugs of other classes such as the opioids,
barbiturates, or hallucinogens (Rosecrans and Meltzer 1981). Of
special interest was the protetypieal stimulant d-amphetamine,
because nicotine also has a variety of stimulant-like actions (Rail
1985}. When nicotine-trained rats were tested with amphetamine,
however, they only partially generalized to nicotine. In another
study, Schechter (1981) observed higher levels of amphetamine
generalization to nicotine in a group of rats trained to discriminate
amphetamine from pentebarbital. Thus, nicotine may have some
amphetamlne-like effects which are unmasked under certain condi-
tions.
Oxotremorine and arecoline are agonists of the cholinergic ner-
vous system, but these drugs activate muscarinic, and not nicotinic,
cholinergic receptors (Rail et al. 1985). Consistent with the mechan-
isms of action of these cholinergic drugs are the findings that neither
oxotremorine nor arecoline generalized to nicotine in nicotine-
trained animals (Rosecrans and Meltzer 1981).
Nicotine analogs and metabolites have also been studied with the
discrimination paradigm (Rosecrans and Chance 1977; Stelerman et
al, 1987). Such research can help reveal the extent, if any, of the role
of these nicotine-related or nicotine-derived chemicals in determin-
ing the nature of the discriminative effects that follow nicotine
administration. In rats trained to discriminate 100 p,g/kg of nicotine,
the analogs cytisine and anabasine generalized to nicotine. The
alkaloid nornicotine generalized partially to nicotine. Cotinine, the
major metabolite of nicotine, was observed to generalize to nicotine
only when the cotinine was given intraventricularly in relatively
high doses to rats trained to discriminate relatively low dose levels
(10O ~tg/kg) of nicotine. These data show that although metabolites of
nicotine may share some stimulus properties with nicotine, the
degree of generalization is weak, suggesting that the discriminative
stimulus effects of nicotine are mainly due to nicotine itself and not
to the metabolites.
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Synthetic analogs of nicotine have also been evaluated for their
possible nicotine-like properties in discrimination studies (Rose-
crans, Kallman, Glennon 1978; Roseeraas et al. 1978). Of the several
compounds tested, only one, 3.methyl-pyridylpyrollidine, a chemical
isomer of nicotine, was observed to generalize to the nicotine
stimulus in nicotine-trained rats. This compound was observed to be
8 to 10 times less potent than nicotine. Its effects were significantly
antagonized (reduced or blocked) by mecamylamine, which also
antagonizes the stimulus generated by both S- and R-nicotine; the
naturally occurring tobacco constituent, S-nicotine, is also 8 to l0
times more potent as a stimulus than R-nicotine. The results of
these investigations indicate that the stimulus properties of nicotine
am highly specific.
A finding reich, ant to pharmacologic treatment efforts (see Chap-
ter VII) involved discrimination studies with lobeline (a constituent
in several over-the-counter aids for quitting smoking). Lobeline is an
alkaloid with some nicotine-like ganglionic effects in the peripheral
nervous system (Rail et al. 1985). Rosocrans and Chance (1977) found
that lobeline was neither discriminated as nicotine nor did it block
nicotine discrimination in nicotine-trained rats. These results do not
support the use of lobeline-eontaining compounds as treatment aids
for cigarette smoking (see also Schwartz 1987; Chapter VII).
Peripheral Versus Central Discriminative Stimulus Effects of
Nicotine
The degree to which the stimulus is generated via peripheral
rather than central nervous system (CNS or brain) actions is also
important in understanding the nature of the nicotine stimulus. As
discussed in Chapter III, nicotine has many peripheral autonomic
nervous system (ANS) effects which might feed back to the CNS,
thereby indirectly generating or contributing to stimulus effects.
Thus, changes in blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, and
hormone release could be potential mediators of the effects. Several
approaches have been utilized to address the role of peripheral
actions of nicotine in the generation of the discriminative stimulus.
One approach is to attempt to block nicotine with an antagonist not
able to enter the CNS.
In one study, animals were trained to discriminate a dose of
nicotine (Rozecrans and Chance 1977). Then they were pretreated
with a series of nicotinic cholinergie antagonists and with muscarin-
iv cholinergie antagonists. ARer pretreatment with an antagonist,
the animals were retosted with the training dose of nicotine.
Meeamylamine, a centrally and peripherally acting nicotine antago-
nist, was the only drug observed to completely block the nicotine
stimulus. As the dose of this antagonist was increased, percent
correct responses on the nicotine-correct lever, after the injection of
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200 or 400 ~g/kg of nicotine, decreased to placebo response levels,
indicating a complete antagonism of the nicotine stimulus. In a
similar study, Stolerman, Pratt, and Garcha (1982) increased the
nicotine dose in an attempt to overcome the actions of mecamyla-
mine: the blockade was not overcome by any dose of nicotine. Thus,
these data suggest that mecamylamine is not a competitive antago-
nist (blocking at the receptor itself) but rather may functionally
antagonize nicotine's effects through another mechanism (Stolerman
etal. 1987).
In other studies, a 331 ~g/kg dose of mecamylamine antagonized
the stimulus effects of 200 }xg/kg of nicotine, while 835 ~g/kg was
required for similar antagonism of the 400 ttg/kg dose of nicotine
(Rosecrans and Meltzer 1981). All such studies found that the
peripherally acting nicotinic antagonist, hcxamethonium, did not
affect nicotine discriminations. The muscarinic antagonist, atropine,
was also without effect. The possible relationships of the nicotine
stimulus to brain norepinephrine and 5-hydroxytryptamine (sereto-
nin or 5-HT) systems were also investigated through the use of the
appropriate antagonists/agonists. Similarly, a quaternary analog of
nicotine, which does not enter the brain, was evaluated and found to
produce no evidence of generalization in nicotine-trained rats
(Rosecrans etal. 1978). Such studies do not support the involvement
of peripheral systems in the generation of the nicotine stimulus.
Another strategy used to investigate the central nature of the
nicotine stimulus compared concentrations of nicotine in the brain
with the resulting stimulus effects of nicotine (Rosecrans and Chance
1977). It was assumed that if nicotine's stimulus effects are mediated
in the brain, then such effects should he related to brain levels of
nicotine. This hypothesis was confirmed, In fact, it was found that
before nicotine functions as a stimulus, it must achieve a minimal
drug level in the brain. In addition to relating drug level in the brain
to the stimulus effect induced by nicotine, Rosecrane and Chance
(1977) showed that systemically administered nicotine generalized to
nicotine administered intraventricularly. Taken together, the fore-
going studies show that the nicotine-generated discriminative stimu-
lus is dependent on the actions of nicotine at central nicotine
receptors in the brain.
Drug discrimination research has also examined the stimulus
properties of the muscarinie cholinergic agonist, arecoline. Arecoline
is a constituent of the betel nut mixtures commonly chewed in the
East Indies (Taylor 1985a). Three approaches have been utilized to
investigate the stimulus properties of arecoline. In the first study,
areseline served as a discriminative stimulus and thereby assumed
control of behavior (Reseerans and Meltzer 1981). These effects of
arecoline were blocked by pretreatment with the muscarinie antago-
nist, atropine, while the quaternary compound, methyl atropine
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(which does not readily cross the blood-brain barrier), was ineffec-
tive. These results indicate that the stimulus can also be exerted via
muscarinic stimulation and confirm that the discriminative stimulus
properties of muscorinic agonists, like those of nicotinic agonists, are
centrally mediated. Additional studies indicated that mecamylamlne
was not able to antagonize the stimulus effects of arecoline (Rose-
crans and Meltser 1981). Finally, it was found that rats could be
trained to discriminate between the muecarinic and nicotinic
agonists, areceline and nicotine. Thus, there appear to be two
independent central cholinergic receptor systems (muscorinic and
nicotinic), each of which can exert stimulus control over behavior
when appropriately stimulated. These findings have been confirmed
by Stolerman and colleagues (1987).
Interactions with Noncholinergiv Neurvns
In a preliminary study (Takada et al., in press) two nicotine-
trained squirrel monkeys recognized beta-earboline as nicotine. Beta-
carboline induces symptoms resembling anxiety in animals; these
symptoms can be reduced by administration of the anxiolytic,
diazepam (Shepherd 1986). In addition to this observation, Colpaert
(1977) reported that nicotine can antagonize the diasepam cue, and
Heath, Porter, and Rosecrans (1985) noted that nicotine a~tagonized
the effects of diazepam on punished responding in rats. Mecamyla-
mine was also found to attenuate the nicetine-induced antagonism of
diazepam's antlanxiety effect~ Harris and coworkera (1986) found
that metrazol (a convulsant) partially generalized (35 percent) to
nicotine when tested in the discrimination paradigm in nicotine-
trained animals. A greater degree of generalization of the metrasol
cue to nicotine (50 percent) was observed 48 hr after the cessation of
a 21-day chronic nicotine regimen in rats trained to discriminate
metrazol (5 mg/kg) from saline; these generalizations were not
antagonized by mecamylamine. Harris and colleagues (1986) suggest-
ed that the generalization of metrazol to nicotine was a function of a
nicotine abstinence-induced withdrawal syndrome resembling anxie-
ty. These studies suggest that nicotine may act at central receptors
capable of eliciting a stimulus cluster which induces anxiety
(Chapter III).
Subjective Effects of Nicotine in Humans
The extensive amount of nicotine discrimination research using a
variety of animal species and several routes of administration
confirms that nicotine is a potent drug that can induce alterations in
nervous system function that are distinct and readily identifiable. In
addition, the similar findings observed in studies using different
routes of nicotine administration are consistent with the hypothesis
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that the tobacco vehicle is not necessary to produce nicotine-assocl-
ated changes of mood and feeling. The next Section examines date
from analogous studies in which humans served as research subjects.
Psychoactivity of Nicotine
The animal research described above indicates that nicotine's
psychoactivity is a result of basic biological actions. Human research
on nicotine corroborates the validity of the animal research. Results
from studies of the interoceptive effects of nicotine, in humans are
analogous to those obtained in animal studies described above.
One of the first human studies that used drug discrimination
procedures, as had been developed with animal subjects, was a study
of nicotine discrimination, The study involved the systematic
n~anipulation of nicotine dose levels with research cigarettes which
varied primarily in the amount of nicotine delivered (Kanman et al.
1982). This study demonstrated that nicotine, as delivered by the
inhalation of tobacco smoke, produces discriminative stimulus
effects. The degree and rate of acquisition of the discrimination
appeared to be dose dependent. The ability of the subjects to make
the discriminations did not appear to be related to either autonomic
(e.g., heart rate) effects of nicotine or to nicotine's effects on other
self-reported measures (e.g, taste of the cigarette).
The data from Kallman and associates (1982) are consistent with
those of several other studies which have found that human
volunteers can differentiate among cigarettes which vary mainly in
the amount of nicotine which they deliver (Goldfarb, Jarvik, Glick
1970; Goldfarb et al, 1976; Herskovic, Rose, Jarvik 1986; Rose 1984;
Oriffiths. Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Henningfield, Miyasato, John-
son, Jasinski 1985). Furthermore, the conclusion that centrally
mediated effects of nicotine are important in such responsivity is
supported by findings that pretreatment with mecamylamine re-
duced responsivity to nicotine dose levels of the cigarette (Stolerman
et al. 1973; Nemeth-Coslett et al. 1986a; Pomerleau et al. 1987). The
study by Stolerman and associates (1973) also showed that such
antagonism of nicotine's effects was not obtained when peripherally
acting pentolinium was given.
Other research has confirmed that the tobacco vehicle is not
necessary to enable the interoceptive effects of nicotine, Several
studies involving i.v. administration of nicotine in human subjects
have found that humans readily differentiate among nicotine dose
levels given intravenously. In the earliest of these studies, i.v.
injections of nicotine were given to 35 volunteers, most of whom
were cigarette smokers (Johnston 1942), The conclusions of Johnston
that are especially relevant to characterization of the psychoactivity
of nicotine are shown in Table 3.
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TABLE 3.---Summary of early observations regarding
psychoactivity of intravenously delivered
nicotine in humans
1 "Psychic" effects are directly related to nicotine dose; nonsmokerw are
much more $enaitive to b~xic symptoms (d.S~ natlsea) than smoker~
2 Effect of nicotine is ~'specific and readily distinguished from that of
cocaine or codeine"'
Nicotine injections are ~'plee~ant" to smokers, and are preferred by some
over cigarette ~rnoking
Orally given nicotine (dissolved in water) sluo had "psychi:" action, but
ttppeared much ler~ potent than ir4ravermusly adm~nis~red nlcotir~e:
delayed onset of affect
~ 1-3 mg doses aSpeare~ tolerable and equivMent to B~noktng single
¢igarette~ ~ 0.11 rag doses appeared Lo produce "subjectlve sensation""
equivalent to one 'tdeep" cigarette smoke lnhaletlen
• Mo~ recent research indicates that h~gher d~ levell of nlCOtln~ Oa~ produce cocaine.like elfec~s
fae~ninglield, Mix~Lgato~ JasLnskl 1985~ •
Johnston's findings (Table 3) have been generally confirmed.
Jones, Farrell, and Herning (1978) and Rceenberg and colleagues
(1980) also found that human volunteers could differentiate i.e.
nicotine at dose levels similar to those obtained by smoking
• cigarettes. In another study which extended the findings of Johnsten
(1942)~ both i.e. nicotine and nicotine inhaled from research ciga-
rettes across a range of doses were administered to human volun-
tcers with histories of using a variety of dependence-preduciug drugs
(Henningfield, Miyasato, Jasinski 1985). Subjects clearly distin-
guished nicotine from a placebo, and the dose strength estimates
were directly related to the nicotine dose level. A subsequent study
showed that the immediate subjective effects of nicotine were
diminished by pretreatment of subjects with mecamylarnine (Hen-
ningfield et el. 1983).
In a study by Hemingfield, Miyasato, Jasiaski (1985), measures
used to qualitatively describe the nature of the drug stimulus
indicated that nicotine met criteria as a euphoriant. At higher doses
nicotine was sometimes identified as a stimulant (cocaine or
amphetamine); it elevated scores on the Morphine Benzedrine Group
("Euphoria" or "MBG") scale of the Addiction Research Center
Inventory (ARCI) (Haertzen and Hiekey 1987); and it produced dose-
related increases in scores on a drug-llking scale. The high-dese
cocaine/amphetamine identifications found in the study by Hen-
ningfield, Miyasate, and Jasinski (1985) were not observed by
Johnston, but such similarities between nicotine and cocaine may
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only be clearly identifiable by subjects experienced with both cocaine
and nicotine.
Nicotine given in the polecrilex gum form has been evaluated with
similar measures as described above. These studies involved giving
various combinations of 2-rag- and 4-rag-nicotine pieces of
polacrilex gum and placebo to cigarette smokers. Human volunteers
were given the polacrilex gum to chew in doses ranging from 0 to 4
mg in one study (Nemeth-Ccslett and HenningFleld 1986) and 0 to 8
mg in another study (Nemeth-Coslett et al. 1987). Both studies
showed that subject ratings of several effects (including "dose
strength") were directly related to the total dose of nicotine that was
given. In addition, similarity of the stimulus effects to those
produced by cigarettes was a direct function of dose level. In these
studies "liking" or "positive" effect scores were inversely related to
dose level, suggesting that this nicotine delivery system has low
potential for causing dependence when compared with that of
cigarettes (Chapter VII]. The role of centrally mediated nicotinic
actions in the ability of humans to differentiate among polacrilex
gum-delivered nicotine doses was confirmed in a study by Pickworth,
Herning, and Henningfield (in press). These researchers found that
mecamylamino pretreatment of human volunteers reduced both the
EEG and subjective effects of nicotine polacrilex gum administra-
tion.
Like many other psychoactive drugs (Chapter V), nicotine can also
produce unpleasant or dysphoric subjective effects that are related to
the dose given and the route of administration. Such effects can be
quantified by a psychological scale of the ARCI that is sometimes
referred to as the "dysphoria" scale (Jasinski, Johnson, Henningfieid
1984) or the "LSD" scale because it was constructed from items
found to be elevated when lysergic acid disthylamide (LSD) was
given to volunteers (Haertzen 1966, 1974).
In one study, Henningfield, Miyasato, and Jasinski (1985) found
that beth inhaled (research cigarette smoke) and i.v. nicotine
produced dose-related increases in LSD scale scores. In two other
studies, nicotine polacrilex gum was tested (Nemeth-Coslett and
Henningfield 1986; Nemeth-Ceslett et al. 1987). LSD scale scores
were at least slightly increased in both studies and were significantly
increased in the study by Nemeth-Coslett and Henningfield (1986).
These results with nicotine polacrilex gum, combined with no
increases in MBG scale scores, are consistent with the observations
described earlier suggesting a low overall dependence potential for
this formulation.
Sensory Effects of Nicotine
As discussed earlier in this Chapter, nonnicotine constituents of
tobacco smoke can produce functional sensory effects. Nicotine, too,
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can produce peripherally mediated sensory effects which could
contribute to the taste of the cigarette. Although not generally
termed "psychoactive" drug effects, such effects could contribute to
the control over behavior as they provide discrete cues which may be
associated with centrally mediated nicotinic effects. For example,
nicotine has a bitter taste, elicits burning sensations when placed on
the tongue, and is irritating to the oral and respiratory musosa
(Windholz et al. 1976). Increasing the nicotine delivery of cigarettes
while holding tar delivery constant leads to an increase in perceived
strength and harshness. The possible effects of nicotine in the upper
respiratory tract on subject ratings cannot be excluded in these
studies. Nicotine also stimulates mechanoreceptors sensitive to
pressure and stretch (Taylor 1985b), and this local action of nicotine
may also contribute to the sensory characteristics of inhaled
cigarette smoke.
Hexamethonium (the nicotine receptor antagonist that only acts
peripherally} has been shown to block cigarette smoke-induced
edema in the tracheobronehial mucesa of rats (Lundberg, Saria,
Martling 1982). Another study showed that mseamylamine produced
dose-related decreases in harshness ratings of individual puffs of
cigarette smoke (Rose, Sampson, Henningfield 1985). In this study,
subjects were asked to rate their preference at different nicotine
concentrations of the smoke: mecamylamino pretreatmcnt shifted
preferences to higher smoke concentrations for individual puffs.
Another method of producing at least some of the nicotine-related
sensations of cigarette smoke is to present nicotine in vapor or
aerosol form without any components of tar. Nicotine vapor is likely
to be deposited mainly in the mouth and pharynx (Russell 1986);
thus it would be difficult to administer a pharmacologically effective
dose of nicotine without producing excessive local irritation and bad
taste. However, a low dose of nicotine delivered in this fashion might
simulate the sensory effects of smoking, even if the pharmacologic
effects are minimal. A low-dose nicotine aerosol delivering droplets 1
to 5 ttm in size would be expected to provide respiratory sensations
even more similar to cigarette smoking, as particles of this size
would impact mainly in the tracheobronehial region.
Three studies have evaluated the effects of a commercially
marketed nicotine vapor delivery system in human subjects. The
delivery system was a version of that originally described by
Jacobsen, Jacobsen, and Ray (1979); it was marketed as a "tobacco
product" through February 1987, when the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration (FDA) required verification of "safety and efficacy" for
continued marketing as a "nicotine delivery system" (see Chapter
VII). It consisted of a cigarette-size plastic tube with a nicotine-
containing polymer in the end distal from the user's mouth. It was
used by sucking air through the tube and inhaling in a manner
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similar to that when smoking cigarettes. When the system was used
in this fashion, two studies found that plasma nicotine levels were
not significantly elevated (Sepkovic et al. 1986; Henningfield 1986b),
A third study found significant elevations in plasma nicotine
following use of the nicotine tube (Russell et al. 1987). However, in
the latter study subjects used what may be described as a heroic
puffing procedure: they were instructed to puff 1 nicotine tube 10
times, at intervals of 40 sec; after a 4-rain pause, subjects then
"puffed and inhaled as hard and as frequently as possible, continous-
ly for the next 20 rain, with changes every 5 min to fresh cigarette
[nicotine tube]." Symptoms typical of those associated with higher
levels of nicotine administration were observed, i.e., dizziness,
lightbeadedness, and in a few subjects, nausea (Russell et al. 1987).
In another study of the nicotine vapor inhaler, four tubes in which
none, one, two, or four contained nicotine (the others being denico-
tinized) were simultaneously puffed on by volunteers through a
specially designed cigarette holder (Henningfield 1986b, 1987a). In
this study, despite the fact that measurable changes in plasma
nicotine levels did not occur, several responses often associated with
nicotine delivery were observed: (1) subject ratings of "harshness"
were directly related to dose (number of nicotine-containing tubes);
(2) post-puffing increases in heart rate occurred as a function of dose;
(3) subjective effects were directly related to dose; and (4) desire to
smoke tobacco cigarettes was inversely related to nicotine dose level.
Taken together, these results show than even with negligible
systemic levels, nicotine can induce feelings of satisfaction and can
reduce urges to smoke when it produces tobacco-like sensations of
throat burn and harshness (Chapter VII).
Some of the short-term satisfaction det:ivcd from inhaling nicotine
may explain the apparent short-term efficacy of the vapor inhaler in
reducing desire to smoke despite negligible plasma nicotine levels.
This is in contrast to findings obtained when nicotine is given either
intravenously or in the polacrilex gum (Henningfield, Miyasato,
Jasinski 1983; Nemeth-Coslett et al. 1987). Whether the effects of the
nicotine vapor inhaler are conditioned responses, peripheral nicotin-
ic actions, or both, it remains to be determined if such effects would
provide long-term efficacy as tobacco replacement in the nicotine-
dependent tobacco user (Chapter VII). Such effects may not be
satisfactory for long-term treatment (i.e., they may not satisfactorily
alleviate tobacco withdrawal), although they may prove important in
providing sources of pleasure and reduction of urges in people trying
to quit smoking (Henningfield 1987b).
State-Dependent Learning
The potential of nicotine to induce state-dependent learning
effects as well as how such effects are studied are discussed in
i
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Chapter VL In the present Section, findings are summarized in so far
as they are relevant to assessing the dependence potential of
nicotine. In brief, state-dependent learning refers to the phenome-
non whereby behavior learned in one set of cues or stimulus
conditions (context) is mast reliably performed when subsequently
attempted in the same context and/or is adversely affected when
attempted in a novel context (Chapter VI). Psychoactive drugs can
produce state-dependent learning effects, apparently by providing a
recognizable context based on the interoceptive stimulus cues
provided by the drug (see also Chapter V). Several studies have
shown that nicotine exposure can lead to state-dependent learning
effects. For example, a series of studies conducted by Andersson and
colleagues (Andersson 1975; Andersson and Hockey 1977; Andersson
and Post 1974) and by others (Peters and McGee 1982; Warburten et
al. 1986) showed that nicotine exposure in the form of tobacco smoke
could induce state-dependent learning effects in humans. In a study
by Lowe (1985), nicotine's part in the state complex produced by
alcohol and nicotine together was also evaluated.
There are two implications of the above findings regarding the
dependence potential of nicotine. The first is that state-dependent
learning could contribute to the dependence potential of cigarettes,
in that optimal cognitive/behavioral performance may come to
depend upon the continued self-administration of tobacco. These
actions might also contribute to the strength of the reinforcing
effects of nicotine by producing effects on learning and/or peffor-
rnanee (see also Chapter VI).
Nicotine as a Positive Reinforcer
The primary biobehavioral mechanism by which dependence-pro-
ducing drugs maintain drug seeking is by functioning as positive
reinforcers (Thompson and Unna 1977; Thompson and Schuster
1968). That is, drugs can serve as stimuli that strengthen behavior
leading to their own presentation (Skinner 1953; Thompson and
Schuster 1968). As discussed in Chapter V, studios in the 1960s used
the drug self.administration techniques developed to study morphine
and other dependence-preducing drugs in animals (Weeks 1962;
Thompson and Schuster 1964; Chapter V). In the first such study
with nicotine, Deneau and Inoki (1967) found that monkeys would
also self-administer nicotine intravenously. However, some investi-
gators considered these findings equivocal (Russell 1979; Griffiths,
Brady, Bradford 1979). In 1981, Goldberg, Spealman, and Goldberg
showed conclusively that nicotine itself could function as an
efficacious positive reinforcer for animals, although the range of
conditions under which it was effective was somewhat more limited
than for drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine. Analagous studies
with humans in the 1980s (e.g., Henningfield, Miyasato, Jasinski
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1983) demonstrated that intravenously administered nicotine is a
reinforcer. The results leading to the foregoing conclusions arc
summarized in the present Section.
Animal Studies of Nicotine as a Reinforcer
Whether a drug functions as a reinforcer can depend critically on
the dose of drug, the previous exposure of the subject to that or other
drugs, the behavioral history of the subject, and perhaps most
importantly, the immediate contingencies relating responses and
subsequent injections of drug (contingencies are often referred to as
schedules of reinforcement) (Barrett and Witkin 1986; Chapter V).
Nicotine differs from some dependence.prcducing drags (e.g., co-
caine) (Griffitbe, Brady, Bradford 1979) in that for animals, the
conditions under which it maintains high rates of self-administration
behavior appear to be more limited; however, there are other
dependence-producing drugs which also serve as reinforcers under a
fairly limited range of conditions (e.g., alcohol) (Mello 1973; Meisch
1977).
Table 4 (modified from Henniugfield and Goldberg 1983b) is a
summary of the early studies that found i.v. nicotine injection to be
ineffective or marginally effective as a reinforcer as well as more
recent studies that conclusively demonstrated the capacity of
nicotine to function as a positive reinforcer. The studies listed in this
Table employed a variety of species (ranging from rats to human
volunteers), different types and parameters of drug injection sched-
ules, a variety of training histories, and a wide range of nicotine
doses. Much of the research has been reviewed in greater detail
elsewhere (Goldberg and Henningfield, in press; Swedberg, Henning-
field, Goldberg, in press). The present Section only reviews some of
the more recent studies that have experimentally evaluated nic-
otine's reinforcing effects.
Until 1981, most experiments of nicotine self-edministration
involved continuous reinforcement schedules in which each response
by an individual subject resulted in the i.v, injection of nicotine
(Table 4). Under these continuous reinforcement schedules, (1) rates
of responding were very low, ranging from about 0.008 to 0.0005
rasponses/sec in different studies; (2) changes in nicotine dose
produced only small and inconsistent changes in rates of responding;
(3) the differences in rates of responding maintained by nicotine
compared with saline were generally small; and (4) marked intersub-
jset differences in self-administration of nicotine were often report-
ed. In one series of studies (Lang et al. 1977; Singer, Simpson, Lang
1978; Latiff, Smith, Long 1930; Smith and Long 1980) a concurrent
schedule of periodic deliveries of food pellets to food-deprived rats
was found to increase rates of nicotine self-administration respond-
ing (Chapter V). The concurrent food reinforcement schedule ap
Q
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TABLE 4c--Summary of reports in which nicotine was available under intravenous drug self-
administration (S-A) procedures
Study Species Reinforcement
~hedt~la Main fiedin~
Comment~
Dene~u and lnoki Rhesus monkey FR 1: ~eral nicotine
doses Two monkeys initiated S-A;
Currently accepted reinforcing
q19671 tested others required priming
olTieacy ~.~e~mem criteria ,ol
procedure
achie~-ed
Clark Hooded rat FR l: ~erol nicotine
doses and Nicotine a reinforcer relative to No
quantitative data
(19~1 saline tested salla*.
Lfvom study ab~racu
Yanagita Rhesus monkey Experlment 1: F]~ 1: severn]
Nicotine and caffeine not (pre]iminary report. Yanaglta et
119771 nicotine, caffeine, and soline reinforcers, com][xired wilh
al LI9741 studle.I
deles substituted for
SPA ~line or SPA
E~tperlr~nt 2: FR |;
several Nicotine SA tatt~ stabla in No
d~rect reinforcing effica¢)
nicotine deses
o~ntlnu~ly most subject& but net clearly
test
availabla
dose related
Experiment 3: PR
~ure~ 0~2 mg/kg nicotine and lowest
two nic~lae doses,
sa~i~, and cocaine dose I00~ mg~tg) •
thr~ cccalne doses
tested maintaiaed similar response
rate~ which slightly exceeded
rates maln~ined by ~line
Nicotine marginally reinforcing
c~m~red with ~aline and higher
~ine dc~
L~ng, Latiff. McQ~e~n. Hooded rat FR I; nicotine and
~aline tatd In foed~leptlved Inet food~ttedl
Singer in f~ted and food-deprived ra~s, nicotine a
relnfor~er,
~1977~ rats compared with solid.
Singer, Simpson. l~ng Hooded rat CONC [(FR I:r&,otinexFT 1
Food ~tlatiev decreased nkotln* Results ~milar to ethanol
(197~1 min:foed p~]latlI ~n fccd-deprlved S-A t~e. bet nicotine a
testing r~u[ts
~at~ rats subsequently
f~ted relafcrcer in'beth ¢ondltlovs

" TABLE 4.~ntinued
Study Species Reinforcement
~hedule ~,lain findings
('ovnment~
Griffiths Brady P.abc~n FR ]60 followecl by
.~hr " Number Qf nicc~line
('~lrf~ine. ephedrine. ~lnd ~ari~lu~
Hrud[ord timeout; several nlcollr~e d~¢~ injections/day did not exc~l
olhel ~imil~lrly l~ted ,tlmu]~llll~
(]979~ and ~.~]in~ ~ub~it~ed [or ~]ine
w~re rein~rc~er~ rel~liv~ lo
cocalne
~]ine
l~r~en~ Ivc~tc~ ~'ioreton Albino, ra~ F~ I: ~veral nlcc41ne
d~e~ ~nd ~,~my[amlne q~en~ral]y ~¢ling
Gl~u~ d~tI~ ~ugge~l nl~Iine ~
i]9791 ~.rt]irte ~e~ted ant~oni~II, nol ~nto]iniunl
:~ r~nf~lrce~ no cl~r ~.t~.[]et'~
tperip~raltv aclin~ an~agcni~ ! c~rve
altered S-A behavior
l~ti~L Smith, I~ng H~eded rat CONC [IFR l:injec~ion~
] NiCOtine ~ relnforce~ re~ali~e 1o ~A
r~le i~verse[y dc~e rel~led
I]9~}1 mln:food pellel~]; several niCOtine sa~ine; miLc~ effect~ of urine p~t
during inili~l nlc~tine ~-A
d~ ~z~d ~llne ~e~te~
m~nipll]atlol~ o~ S-~ ~'al(. only
behavior ~cqui~iliiin n~t ~l~*r
duri~¢ inltla] nlc~ine exposure
~tablishrnenl
Smith and L~ng Hooded rat FR h one nlcoti~e d~e
aed Ni¢ollne a r~in~er wilh and
119~01 ~[ive reded wlthout CONC food
delivery
s~hedule in ~oed~epri~L~, bul
not food~.~ted. ~ats
Go]dberg, Spea]mvn, Squirrel monkey Second-order scheduk. FI 1 or 2
~icotlne m~inl,~ined high rvles Demon~raled impor~an~ o1"
C, oldber~ rain (FR 10:~tlmulus~. I'ollowed of r~ponding: ral~ ~ievrea~
anci]L~ envi~nmen~:d ~inm]i
119811 by 3-mln timec~t one nlcvClne n'~rked~y when I~J svllne
in n~in~ainin~ high n~l~ ¢1¸
clc~e and ~lir~ t~ted
replaced n~tine, ~2) briel¸
responding
~imu~i omitted, q~l ~u~F~ct~
mecamv[arnlne pret re~te~
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TABLE 4.--Continued
Study Species
I~ugherty, Milfer, To~d, Rhesus monkey
K~enbeuder
(I~D
Reinforcement schedule
F1 16 and sevond~Mer F] I rain
~FR 4~imulusr. severat nleotine
deles and saline ~s~d
Main findings Comments
Nicotine maintained higher ~A
rat~s than saline under FI ond
~t'td-t:cder schedule, but only
a rr.~ginal[y effective reinfcccer
wh~ c0etinuo~ly available
Estabhshing nicotine as
reinforcer ,'~it~d ~¢vera[
months, using procedures that
~stablish cocaine or codeine as
reinforcers in few days
Goldberg Bnd Spealman SqulrreJ monkey FI 5 rain follewed by
lrain Nicotine and cosine
Showed mco6ne can be
(19~2) t[mc~u~ several nicotine and quEdit~tively siv~ilar
reinfercers, punisher, similar to efectnc
o~aine doses and s~line
~ compared with salin~ cvcai~e shock
maintained higher rates of"
responding in I of 2 monkeyS;
mec~rnylamlne pret reatlylent
r~uced nicotine S-A rates
Si~[~er. Wa[tace, Hall L~ng-Evans rat CONC [~FR lmwotir, e~r 1
L~y~er nicotine S-A rates in rat Range
~( b~iowinhihited
11982~ rain:food pe~let~ one nicotine group with 6OHDA lesfens in
schede[ed.i~duced behaviors
tested
n~fet~ ~t~.umbem; th~n in
e~lende~
sh~m Jesloos group
Spealma~ aod Gobtberg S~mrrel r~key Second-order FI L 2, or 5 rain
Niec~ne ~ cocaine rv~int~ined Under beth scb~ules. ~e
{15~2) (FR 10:stimt~l~l and FI ~-mln similar rates of ~pondlng ~nd
and cocaine reinforcing efficacy
schedules tesL~i;
several nicotine patterr~ nicotine, not c~ai.e,
comparable
and cocaine dries and
~aline S-A decre~ to saline-like
t~sted
rates when mecamy[amlne
pretreated
Oo

o~ TABLE 4.-~Continued
Study Species
~iafo~m schedute
Main flnding~
CommeN~
Ater and Grifflth~ Baboon
c19~3~
Expenre~nt 1: FR 2 follow~t by
15~e~ timeout; ~ve~l utcotine
doses, cocaine, and saline tested
Experiment ~ FI 5 mln followed
by l~n ti~ut; ~veral
nin~ive and cc~line ~ and
saline tested; FI duratlo~ varied
1-11 rain
Nieotiae marginally reinforcing.
¢ompare~ with ~allne acr~
narrow dose range
Nicotine maintained higher
rates of rasponding than saline,
but milch lower than cocaine Or
f~
in,~r~ed U-~bup~l init~l
response c~rve; fiat tina~ curve
~earlier ai~tracL Ator and
Griffiths ~1~1;~
Nicotine aad il~;ectlonst¢~ion
responding rat~ little chaagt~
with varied FI duration
Goldbe~ mad Human and FR lO followed by
l-rain Monkey and httr~mtt pattorns of
In both hun~qu~ and monkeys.
HenningF~ld Squirrel monkey timeou~ sevtral nicotine dt:6~
t~ponding qualitatively similar: evidence of nicotine having both
tlg@3a, bl and saline t~tocl nicotine injectloi~ number
r~inforclng and punishing efft~ts
exceeded ~line i~F.etina number tfrom
study abstracts1
in 3 of 4 of both human~ arm
monkey~
Hvn~ingt'~eld, Miy~ato. Hum:m FR 10 followed by l-rain
Niemme injection n~mbur Nicotine and intravtaous
Ja~inskl timormt; several nicotine doses generally ezceeded saline
cocaine su~;eetlw effect~ similar:
(1983) ancl saline tested injectinn number., uinatln¢.,
t~ieotine ha~ both r~inforcing
ir~j~'tioa n~mber inversely
effects arm punishing effects
related to nin0tiw dose: rfieotlne
suporessed pcstsession cigarette
smoking
• • @ • • • • •
@ @ •

TABLE 4.~ntinued
Study Species Reinforcevaent
~hudule Main findings
Comments
Ri~,~er and Coldberg ]~z~le dog FR 15 followed by
4-rain N~c41ne and cocaine maintained
Substantially greater response
~1983~ time.t; ~veral nio~in¢, qulltatively similar patterns of
tales maintained with c'acaine
cocaine, and ~Hne des~
t~'~'~; responding and were ~laforeers than
nio~tine
PR schedule also ttsed
relative to ~aline; meeamylamine
pretreatment reduced nicotine,
not oacalae, S-A
Cox. Goldsteln. Nelson Wistar rat FR 1; several nicotine
doses and Nicotine S-A rates higher than
Active lever responding rates
{I9841 saline tr~tad; a seeaud inactive saline, but result in part of
low ~±40 re~pan~/12 hrsk only
lever available ~
as~ss aonspeclfu" activity increases
about twice as high ~ inactive
~lF~:il-~
activlty-mc~ng
lever rates
nicotine effects
Prada and Goldberg Squirrel monkey FR 30 followed by
4rain or 10- At 4-mla tlme~t, ~rall
Nicotine iv inj~ti~ and food
{195.51 see tim~ut; one nicotine d~e nR.~tir~-main~laud response
!~ll~ ~1i~1~' maintained
tested
rate range 0..~2.4 r,~seslser;
similar high respoa~- rates
at lOsec tiraeo~ r~pc~ding (from
study abstraetl
poorly maintained
Slifer and Ralster Rhesus menkey Experiment 1: FR I
and CONC At CONC condition, nicotine S-A
At some doses, nicotine
{19~51 [~FR l:nlcotlne}(FT 5-min~foud at rate higher than saline; at
maintained higher S-A rates
pelk~D]; se~ral
nicotine doses FR I condition, nicotine S-A
than at FR 1 couditlon saline
and saliav tested
wlthoat CONC foud
(preliminary report, Slifer q1983pp
~x~erlm~nt 2: FR 1~
saline and Nicotine a reinforcer relative ~
Nicotine dose changes produced
several nleotine
dese~ saline, but response rates low
only ~ll r~pon~ rate
~ubsthutud for co~lae
relative ~ single vaoine dose
changes
tested
.4

TABLE 4.~Continued
GO
O~
Study Species Reinforcement
~:hedule Main I~ndings
('~mlment~
Goldberg and Htlm:t~ ~nd Mo;tkey~: ~ l(~;,~f~3,
with 1.. 2.. ~icollne n~llnlained aboul
~l~onl lexl ~f I~lkp
Hennlng;-t~d s(~uirre[ monkey or 4-rain limeoui~
l~/s~" overall r~ate ~ FR
~l~b ltuma~: FR I~X}. wilh 1.5-. rt~c~ond~ng al high
FR ~nd timcc~i.
1(~. o~- 20-mln
tlmeout$ in both ht]mat~ and nlc~tk~,
Naruse~ A~arni~ I~eda, Rat FR L FR 4. FR 8: ~!ve~[
Higher nicotine inj~cli~n dries Ni~tine a relatively weak
Ohmu~ ni¢oline du-~e~ ~nd ~l[ine feted Ilo ~nd 30 it~ikg~ rnaint~[ne~
relnl~rcer after l~ly
I1~ responding above saline ~nt~[
avai[ubi[ity
{evel~
De I~ Garza and Rhesus monkey~ FR IC~ ~.~li~e ~nd
~e~rer~l Ni~'~ine a reinforcer re~tlve I~
F~i deprlw~ion ~ni~ican!l~
J~han~3n nlcotlne~ d~rnphet~mine, ~tllrt~ but s'e'~potl~e rale~
~ery i~cre:~-,ed response r~e ~*r I~
119~71 dlazep~m, and perph~na~i~ I~' telatlve to cocaine and (~.
nicotine d~ in only I o~¸ :l
dc~s ~ubs~itu~vd for
cocaine ~mphetamine
monkeys
~(Y~: FR. fixed ~tio: S{~A. ].~ d~ph~ [ ] <lin~lh yl a nlilu:et bane {~CI: ~)R prog~.~lvt. ~lio:
~'~ tixe~ t in~.~ FI. [iv.err nuvr ~al~ (X~(' ~n~t~rrerll .

peared to hasten acquisition of the nicotine self-administration
(Smith and Lang 1980).
Since 1981, methodology for studying the reinforcing effects of
nicotine has shifted away from continuous reinforcement schedules
and toward schedules of self-administration in which responses are
only intermittently reinforced by nicotine injection (Goldberg et al.
1988). Such intermittent schedules appear to more closely approxi-
mate the patterns of human cigarette smoking behavior in which
nicotine is taken in intermittent small doses (puffs) and with even
greater intervals between dosing resulting from periods of time
between cigarettes (Henningfield 1984). On a variety of intermittent
schedules, i.v. nicotine was shown to function as an effective
reinforcer, maintaining overall rates of responding ranging from 0.I
to more than 1 response/sec (Tab!e 4). These increases in behavioral
responses maintained by nicotine were obtained without the use of
food deprivation or concurrent inducing schedules of food delivery.
In one series of experiments with squirrel monkeys, Goldberg and
Spealmnn (1982) and Speaiman and Goldberg (1982) utilized a fixed-
interval schedule in which the first response to occur after a 5-rain
interval elapsed produced an i.v. injection of nicotine followed by a l-
rain period of drug nonavailability Ctimeout"). Responses during the
5-rain intervals had no specified consequences, and daily sessions
ended after 10 intervals or 2 hr. Under these conditions, nicotine
functioned as an effective reinforcer: (1) peak rates of responding
maintained by nicotine ranged from 0.1 to 0.8 respense/sec and were
similar to those maintained by cocaine; (2) as nicotine dose per
injection was increased from 3 to 300 mg/kg, rates of responding first
increased and then decreased; (3) rates of responding maintained by
nicotine were about fourfold to eightfold higher than those main-
tainod during saline substitution; and (4) daily intramuscular
treatment with I mg/kg of mecamylamine reduced rates of respond-
ing maintained by nicotine to saline-control levels but had no effect
on responding maintained by cocaine. Thus, nicotine satisfied all the
criteria discussed in Chapter V as an effective reinforcer. Particular-
ly striking was the finding that although injection doses of nicotine
above 30 mg/kg produced vomiting during the session, one or more
of these higher doses continued to be maintained near maximal rates
of responding in four of the six monkeys studied.
The results of Goldberg, Spealman, and Goldberg (1981) showing
nicotine to be an effective reinforcer have been extended in
subsequent studies. For example, high rates of responding were
maintained on reinforcement schedules of nicotine injection in
which the number of responses per injection was fixed at some
intermediate level (e.g., 1 injection/15 responses; such contingencies
are termed fLxed-ratio schedules). Risner and Goldberg (1983) used a
15-response fixed-ratio schedule of nicotine injection with 4-rain
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timeout periods following each injection in beagle dog~. Nicotine was
an effective reinforcer in all dogs: (1) peak rates of responding were
about 0.3 response/see, but higher rates of responding were main-
tained by cocaine; (2) as the injection dose of nicotine increased from
10 to 100 mg/kg, response rates first increased and then decreased at
the highest dose; (3) peak rates of responding maintained by nicotine
were about fifteenfold greater than those maintained by saline; and
(4) rates of responding maintained by nicotine but not by cocaine
were reduced to saline levels by presession treatment with mecamy-
lamine. Although cocaine maintained higher rates of responding
than nicotine in the dog, fixed-ratio patterns of responding main-
tained by nicotine and cocaine were similar: a pause in responding at
the start of each fixed ratio was followed by a change to steady
• responding at. a high rate until nicotine or cocaine was injected.
In other studies Goldherg and Henningfield (1983a,b, 1986) used
10- to 30-response fixed-ratio schedules of i.v. nicotine injection in
squirrel monkeys. When a l-rain timeout followed each injection,
nicotine maintained rates of responding higher than did saline,
although overall rates of responding were very low. When the
timeout value was increased to 4 min (Prada and Goldberg 1985;
Goldberg and Henningfield 1986) making maximum frequency of
nicotine injection comparable to that of earlier studies by Goldberg
and colleagues, nicotine maintained high rates of responding that
ranged from 0.3 to 2.4 responess/sec in different monkeys.
Differences between nicotine and cocaine in their overall efficacy
as intravenously delivered reinforcers have been found when the
drugs are compared on progressive-ratio schedules. Risner and
Goidberg (1983) studied beagles under a schedule in which the fixed-
ratio requirement was increased daily until responding was no
longer maintained. Cocaine maintained higher fixed-ratio values
than did nicotine on this progressive-ratio schedule, although
maximal fixed-ratio values for nicotine were well above those for
saline. Yanagita (1977) obtained similar findings on a progressive-
ratio schedule of i.v. nicotine or cocaine injection in rhesus monkeys
(Chapter V).
Nicotine was also studied in the baboon using an intermittant
schedule of reinforcement and was found to be a weak reinforcer.
Ater and Griffiths (1983) used a 5-min fixed-interval schedule of i.v.
nicotine injection in baboons with l-rain timcout periods. Peak rates
of responding were higher than rates maintained during saline
substitution. However, rates of responding maintained by nicotine
were much lower than those maintained by i.v. injection of cocaine.
In addition, as the injection dose of nicotine was increased from 10 to
560 mg/kg, rates of responding first increased and then decreased at
the highest doses in one baboon. With the other two baboons, rates of
responding either showed little change or decreased as injection dose
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was increased. Those variable dose-response data were consistent
with the conclusion that nicotine was only a weak reinforcer in the
baboons.
When cigarettes are smoked, a variety of environmental stimuli
arc intermittently associated with the pharmacologic actions of
nicotine (e.g., pleasure and relief from withdrawal). These stimuli
themselves appear important in controlling and strengthening
repetitive cigarette smoking (e.g., removal of the sight and smell of
cigarette smoking) ((}ritz 1978). An experimental model for investi-
gating the role of drug-associated stimuli is the second-order
schedule of drug reinforcement. Second-order schedules of reinforce-
ment involve the intermittent pairing Or association of an environ-
mental stimulus with the primary reinforcer; these stimuli are used
as "secondary" or "conditioned" reinforcers to maintain chains of
behavior leading eventually to the delivery of the primary reinforcer
(Goldberg, Kelleher, Morse 1975; Katz and Goldberg, in press). These
schedules add an additional component of relevance to the study of
cigarette smoking: cigarette smoking involves the pairing of many
such environmental stimuli (visual, olfactory, taste, and tactile) with
the effects of nicotine Administration.
Studies of i.v. nicotine on second-order schedules of reinforcement
have shown that (1) nicotine can establish previously neutral stimuli
(e.g., colored lights) as conditioned reinforcers when injections are
paired with light presentations, (2) such schedules can result in high
and persistent rates of drng.seeking behavior, and (3) the presenta-
tion of the stimuli themselves (in the absence of nicotine injections)
could sustain substantial amounts of drug.seeking behavior. Gold-
berg, Spoalman, and Goldborg (1981) and Spealmun and Goldborg
(1982) used n second-order schedule of nicotine injection in which
completion of each 10-response fixed ratio during a 2-, 3-, or 5-rain
interval produced a brief visual stimulus; the first fixed ratio
completed after the specified fixed interval elapsed produced both
the visual stimulus and i.v. injection of drug. In these studies,
nicotine functioned as n powerful reinforcer: (1) peak rates of
responding maintained by nicotine ranged from 0.8 to 1.7 respons-
es/see and were similar to those maintained by cocaine; (2) as
nicotine dose increased from 3 to 1OO mg/kg, rates of responding first
increased and then decreased; (3) rates of responding maintained by
nicotine were twofold to eightfold greater than those maintained
during saline substitution; and (4) rates of responding maintained by
nicotine, but not by cocaine, were reduced to saline control levels by
presession administration of i mg/k~ of mecamylamine; (5) the brief
visual stimuli functioned as conditioned reinforcers, as demonstrated
by the finding that rates of responding fell markedly when they were
omitted during the intervals.
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Taken together, the results of the studies described in this Section
confirm that nicotine is self-adminlstered in several animal species
and in the absence of either tobacco or unique human cultural
factors. It appears to be most effective as a reinforcer when
intermittently available and when environmental stimuli are paired
with nicotine delivery. Under these conditions, nicotine injections
functioned to motivate behavior as did cocaine injections; however,
cocaine injections maintained more total work output than did
nicotine. Finally, studies wit~ nicotine antugonlsts further con-
firmed that effects of nicotine in the brain were necessary to
maintain its reinforcing actions.
Human Studies of Nicotine as a Reinforcer
The methods developed in animal studies have also been used to
demonstrate the reinforcing effects of i.v. nicotine injections in
human volunteers (Henningfield, Miyasato, Jasinski 1983; Henning-
field and Goldberg 1983a; Goldberg and Henningfield 1983a,b, 1986).
In these studies all subjects had histories of tobacco use and subjects
were not allowed to smoke 1 hr before or during 3-hr sessions:
During test sessions every 10th lever press produced an i.v. injection
of either nicotine or saline followed by a 1-min timeont. In one study
• (Honningfleld, Miyasato, Jasiaski 1983), nicotine was available on
some days, while saline was available on ether days. In other studies
(Henningfield and Goldberg 1983a; Goldberg and Henningfield
1983a,b), nicotine and saline were concurrently available for re-
sponding on alternate levers. With both approaches, all of the
subjects initiated self-administratlon of nicotine. Nicotine injections
were regularly spaced throughout each session, and the rate of self-
administration was inversely related to dose. When saline was
substituted for nicotine, rates of responding usually decreased;
responding that did occur for saline occurred predominantly at the
start of each session and was erratic in temporal patterns.
In another study, the fixed-ratio value was then increased to 100;
following each injection, subjects then had to wait 20 mJ~ before
another injection could be obtained (Swedburg, Henningfield, Gold-
berg, in press). Under these conditions rates of responding increased
and ranged from 0.4 to 2 respanses/sec, similar to those seen with
squirrel monkeys and dogs in the studies previously described. These
studies of i.v. nicotine self-administratlon demonstrated conclusively
that nicotine itself can serve as an effective reinforcer in humans.
Nicotine as an Aversive Stimulus
Even dependence-preducing drugs do not have invariant positive
reinforcing effects; they may be aversive under some conditions (see
Chapter V). Furthermore, averslve effects are an additional mechan-
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ism by which drugs can modify behavior and may be important in
gradually increasing the total amount of control which is exerted by
the drug over the individual. Such effects of nicotine could be
important in limiting the total amount of cigarette smoking or even
in determining when the cigarette is discarded.
The potential effects of nicotine to produce severe discomfort and
thereby limit further intake have been part of the history of nicotine
which has developed over the centuries (Lewin 1931; Dixon and Lee
1912). Two types of laboratory studios have [men conducted to assess
possible aversive effects of nicotine. The studies, involving animals
and/or humans, showed that nicotine (at high levels) can serve as a
punisher to suppress behavior leading to the delivery of another
• reinforcer, and as an aversive stimulus or negative reinforcer to
maintain behavior that either terminates or prevents injections of
nicotine.
In one series of studies (Goldbsrg and Spealman 1982, 1983),
squirrel monkeys responded on a two-component fixed-ratio schedule
of food presentation. In both components, every 3Oth lever press
produced a food pellet. In the punishment component, which was
signaled by a red light, the first response in each fixed ratio produced
an i.e. injection of nicotine. When responding produced 10- or 30-
mg/kg injections of nicotine during the punishment component,
responding was selectively suppressed in that component in a dose-
related manner. When saline was injected, however, rates of
responding for food were no longer suppressed. Similar findings were
obtained when electric shock was compared with nicotine in the
same studies. Administration of mocamylamine, but not hexatrietho-
nium, reduced the punishing effects of the nicotine, showing that the
effects were centrally mediated. Futhermoro, these antagonists did
not reduce the aversivo effects of the electric shock, confirming that
the effects of nicotine were due to nicotine actions at nicotinic
receptors and not to more general possible effects of nicotine.
The potential aversive effects of nicotine have been experimental-
ly demonstrated in human subjects in a preliminary experiment by
Hsnningfield and Goldberg (1983a). Human volunteers who had
been recruited for studies of i.e. nicotine self-administration and who
did not self-administer nicotine during initial sessions were tested
under a concurrent schedule of nicotine avoidance and nicotine self-
administration. Two levers were present, and injections of nicotine
were programmed to occur every 15 or 30 rain. Pressing the left lever
10 times avoided the impending injection, while pressing the right
lever 10 times produced an injection. Higher doses of nicotine (1.5 to
4 rag/injection given over 10 sec) resulted in increased rates of
pressing on the left lever, and fewer injections occurred. Subjects
never completed the 10 responses on the alternate lever required to
produce an injection. When saline was substituted for nicotine,
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responding desreascd and the number of injections received marked-
ly increased. Analogously, in these same subjects scores on a visual
line analog scale for rating "negative or undesirable" effects were
directly related to nicotine dose, and declined to zero when saline
was substituted for nicotine.
Nicotine as an Unconditioned Stimulus
The preceding studies have largely evaluated the effects of
nicotine administration on some behavior which was associated with
the drug by a specific behavioral contingency. But drugs can also
directly elicit responses which then might become conditioned to
occur in the presence of whatever stimuli were associated with those
effects. The effects may be seen as positive or negative and may be
s~sociated with either increasing or declining drug levels in the body
(i.e., drug taking or drug withdrawal).
Two general conditioning paradigms are used to evaluate the
unconditioned stimulus effects of drugs and have been used to test
nicotine: the conditioned place preference and aversion paradigm,
and the conditioned taste aversion paradigm. In addition to a
discussion of these paradigms, data obtained from the practical
application of such findings in the treatment of tobacco dependence
will be summarized.
Conditioned Place Preference and Aversion
The place preference and aversion paradigm has been increasingly
used to evaluate the potential of drugs to produce dependence
(Bozarth 1983). It may be used to assess the positive and negative
subjective states induced by drugs and other chemicals. In the place-
conditioning procedure, an animal is exposed to the effects of a drug
in a novel, distinctive environment. Another environment is paired
with the administration of the drug vehicle (e.g., saline). Subsequent-
ly, the subject is given a free choice of both environments while not
under the influence of the drug. It is currently hypothesized that the
formation of place preferences or place aversions depends on the
association of the interoceptive drug effect with an external stimulus
(e.g., the particular environmental context of the place-conditioning
apparatus). Nicotine has been shown to condition both positive and
negative effects in this paradigm.
The first published study of the place-conditioning effects of
nicotine (Fudala, Teoh, lwamoto 1985) indicated that nicotine, at
doses from 0.1 to 1.2 mg/kg administered s.c. to rats, produced beth a
place preference and place aversion depending upon the dose. As
discussed in Chapter V, the ability to condition both place prefer-
ences as well as place aversions is characteristic of several depen-
dence-producing drugs. A dose of 0.8 mg/k~ was found to condition a
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pi~ce preference for previously nlcotine-paired environmental cues
in the greatest proportion of animals. At the lowest effective place-
conditioning dose of nicotine, 0.1 mg/kg, an almost equal proportion
of animals exhibited place preferences and place aversions. This
investigation also indicated that mecamylamine, but not hexametho-
nium, blocked the place preference-producing effects of nicotine,
suggesting that this nicotine-induced effect was centrally mediated.
Subsequent studies have extended the findings of Fudala, Teoh,
and lwamoto (1985) discussed above. Using a more conservative
classification method in categorizing their subjects, Fudala and
lwamoto (1986) observed that nicotine produced a conditioned place
preference only within the dose range previously tested. Further-
more, nicotine conditioned a place preference when the drug was
administered immediately prior to conditioning sessions, but not
when administered from 20 to 120 rain prior to conditioning.
Depending on the timing of nicotine administration, either place
preferences or place aversions may be produced. For example, at
doses between 0.2 and 0.8 mg/kg, a dose-dependent place aversion
was induced when nicotine was administered 5 rain or less following
an animal's exposure to the conditioning environment (Fudala and
lwamoto 1987). One other group of investigators, Clarke and Fibiger
(1987), using the same dose range of nicotine as in the two
aforementioned studios, found no nicotine-inducod conditioned place
preference in rats. However, the two investigative groups used
experimental methods that differed considerably, including differ-
ences in apparatus design, olfactory cues, number of conditioning
trials performed, and time of conditioning relative to nicotine
administration. The finding that nicotine administration can lead to
conditioned responses in animals provides additional evidence of
nicotine's potential to control behavior by this basic learning process
(i.e., Pavlovian or classical conditioning, see Chapter V).
Conditioned Taste Aversion and Rapid Smoking
During conditioned taste aversion experiments, the presentation
of an aversive stimulus after the consumption of a distinctively
flavored solution causes rejection of the solution when it is presented
at a later time (Palmerino, Rusiniak, Gareia 1980; Chapter V). A
variety of dependence-producing drugs have been found to be
effective at inducing taste aversions (for example, Wise, Yokel,
DeWit 1976; Suzuki et al. 1983; Hunt and Amit 1987; Chapter V).
Findings specific to nicotine are presented here.
Etscorn (1980) reported that a large intraperitoneal (i.p.) close of
nicotine, 2 mg/kg, conditioned taste aversions to 20 percent (weight
per volume) sucrose in Swiss-Webster mice with the tw~bottle choice
test paradigm. Etscorn and colleagues (1986) also reported that i.p.
injections of 1, 3, and 9 mg/kg of nicotine in golden Syrian hamsters
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induced dose-related conditioned taste aversions to 0.1 percent
sodium saccharin solutions with a single.bottle choice paradigm.
Kumar, Pratt, and Stelerman (1983) reported that s.c. injections of
nicotine bitartrate could condition taste aversions to either 0.1
percent sodium saccharin or 0.9 percent sodium chloride solutions at
doses as low as 0.08 mg/kg in Lister hooded rats with a two-bottle
choice paradigm. The conditioned taste aversion was induced by
nicotine in a dose-related manner; stronger taste aversions were
induced by nicotine after four conditioning trials than after one or
two trials. The S-nicotine (the nicotine form normally delivered in
cigarette smoke) was approximately five times as potent as its
stereoisomer in conditioning taste aversions. Mecamylamine, 0.I to 2
mg/kg administered before each conditioning trial, blocked the
' development of taste aversions produced by 0.4 mg/kg of nicotine;
hexamethonium, 1 to 10 mg/kg, had no effect.
Other studies have confirmed the pharmacologic specificity of
nicotine-induced taste aversions; that is, Iwamoto and Williamson
(1984) also found that the development of nicotine-conditioned taste
aversions could be prevented in rats by pretreatment with mecamy-
lamina, 3 mg/kg, but not wlth 1 mg/kg of hexamethonium. In an
analogous study, the pharmacologic specificity of apomorphine-
(dopamine agonist chemically derived from morphine) conditioned
taste aversions was investigated in rats by establishing the response
• to both apomorphine and nicotine following pretreatment of the
animals with pimozide (Kumar, Pratt, Stolerman 1983). Pimozide is
a dopnmlne antagonist that blocks many of the effects of apomor-
phine. Pimozide pcetreatment reduced the strength of the condi-
tioned test aversions to apomorphine but not to nicotine, confirming
a certain degree of pharmacologic specificity of the conditioning
effects of these two chemicals. Finally, an intraventricular microin-
jetties of 5 mg/kg of the quaternary nicotinic eholinergic ganglionic
antagonist, ehlorisondamine, in hooded Lister rats blocked the
development of conditioned taste aversions to 0,1 percent sodium
saccharin or 0.9 percent sodium chloride induced by nicotine injected
9 to 16 days after the chlerisondamine (Reavill et al. 1986).
These data indicate that nicotine, like some other drugs, is capable
of conditioning taste aversions in a dose-related manner in rodents
(see Chapter V). Because mecamylamine, but not hexamethonium,
blocks nicotine-conditioned taste aversions, the mechanism by which
nicotine conditions taste.aversions appears to be centrally mediated.
Conditioned taste aversion studies in which various combinations of
nicotinic agonists and antagonists are given have also been useful in
helping to identify specific brain mechanisms of nicotine's behavior
modifying properties (see review by Stolerman, in press; also see
Chapters HI and V).
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The fact that nicotine can be used to elicit aversive effects has
been put to practical application in the treatment of cigarette
smoking (Chapter V), generally to associate aversive effects of high
doses of nicotine with the taste, smell, and inhalation of cigarette
smoke. Variations on this procedure have been termed "rapid"
smoking or "aversive" smoking procedures; the clinical results of
these procedures have been mixed (see Chapter VII).
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Nicotine: Withdrawal Reactions (Physical Dependence)
The preceding Sections have shown that cigarette smoking is an
orderly form of drug self-administration. The role of nicotine in
controlling this behavior is similar to the role of other psychoactive
drugs in the determination of other forms of drug dependence (see
Chapter V). Nicotine can serve as a highly effective positive
reinforcer, and deprivation of cigarette smoking and presumably of
nicotine itself can increase the reinforcing efficacy of cigarettes
(Henningfield and Griffiths 1979). If longer periods of deprivation
are associated with a discomforting withdrawal syndrome, this
would constitute an additional mechanism by which the reinforcing
efficacy of nicotine would be further increased. The drug effect
which enables such discomforting withdrawal is physical depen-
dence. Physical dependence refers to physiological and behavioral
alterations that become increasingly manifest after repeated expo-
sure to a pharmacologic agent. The primary indication of physical
dependence is an abstlnence-associated withdrawal syndrome, al-
though tolerance is a frequent concomitant (Kalant 1978; Cochin
1970; Kalant, LeBlane, Gibbons 1971; Eddy 1973; Clouet and
lwatsubo 1975; Yanagita 1977). Physical dependence and tolerance
are discussed in greater detail in Chapter V.
Tolerance to nicotine has been studied since the 19th century and
is well documented (Langley 1905; Dixon and Lee 1912; Gfllman et
al. 1985). As reviewed in Chapters II and V, nicotine produces
tolerance to a variety of behavioral and physiological responses.
Until the 1970si however, physical dependence on tobacco was not
rigorously studied, although there was evidence for a syndrome of
withdrawal that could accompany abstinence from chronic cigarette
smoking (Lewin 1931; Weybrew and Stark 1967) and that was
significantly involved in attempts to quit smoking (Dorsey 1936). The
clinical significance of the tobacco withdrawal syndrome has also
been formally recognized by professional organizations such as the
American Psychiatric Association (APA) (1980, 1987) and the
American College of Physicians (1986). These observations, along
with the evidence that nicotine produces tolerance (Chapter II), led
to the conclusion that nicotine exposure produced physical depen-
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dence {Jaffe 1985; Jaffe and Jarvik 1978; US DHHS 1986b; APA
1980).
Conclusions that nicotine exposure produced physical dependence
were also consistent with early data which suggested that i.e.
nicotine delivery seemed to relieve withdrawal from cigarettes and
may have produced physical dependence in a nonsmoker (Johnston
1942). Other supporting observations included the finding that
abrupt reduction of the nicotine in cigarettes (i.e., low nicotine.yield
cigarettes) resulted in behavioral and physiological withdrawal signs
including discomfort and the seeking of regular cigarettes (Finnegan.
Larson, Hang 1946; Knapp, Bliss, Wells 1963). However, the rigorous
scientific methods of the kind that were developed to evaluate
withdrawal from opioids and sedatives (Himmelsbach 1942; Isbell
1948; Isbell et ah 1955; Chapter V) were not applied to the study of
the tobacco withdrawal syndrome until the late 1970s. Therefore, the
data available at the time of the 1964 Report of the Surgeon
General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health were not
considered conclusive (US DHEW 1964). The present Section reviews
characteristics of physical dependence on nicotine, including the
relationship of nicotine intake to withdrawal magnitude and the role
of both environmental and pharmacologic factors which influence
the course of withdrawal.
Criteria for Physical Dependence on Nicotine and Clinical
Characteristics of the Withdrawal Syndrome
Similar kinds of phenomena characterize withdrawal syndromes
from all drugs that produce physical dependence. If physical
dependence on nicotine occurs, these same phenomena should be
observed (see Chapter V; Martin 1977; Thompson and Unna 1977;
Woods, Katz, Winger 1987). Based on these phenomena, criteria for
establishing that physical dependence on nicotine occurs include the
following: (1) Termination of cigarette smoking should be accompa-
nied by changes in mood, behavior, and physical functioning. (2)
Some of these changes should be in a direction which is opposite to
those produced by cigarette smoking and should return to the
baseline levels observed during chronic tobacco administration
("rebound effects"). (3) Physiological withdrawal effects should be
reversible by nicotine administration.
The tobacco withdrawal syndrome as described by the APA in the
revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM III-R) (APA 1987),
provides a clinical description (Table 5). Several of the symptoms of
the nicotine withdrawal syndrome carrespond to effects of
nicotine that are either known or suspected to promote tobacco
dependence as discussed in Chapter VI. It should be noted that the
sequelae of tobacco abstinence include a range of responses which do
not share the same underlying mechanisms. For example, some
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sFmptoms are transient responses which are opposite those produced
when nicotine is given and which subside within a few days or weeks
of nicotine abstinence; such responses are presumed to reflect a
physiologic rebound occurring in the absence of chronic drug
exposure. Other responses are also opposite those produced by
nicotine administration but appear to primarily reflect the removal
of nicotine exposure, and which may occur whether or not sufficient
nicotine had been taken to produce physical dependence. An
example of the latter type of response is body weight. Nicotine can
directly suppress appetite and body weight, often below the value at
which it would have been had nicotine not been taken; removal of
nicotine is then accompanied by a stable increase in body weight.
Various lines of scientific evidence are available to characterize
physical dependence on tobacco and to evaluate the specific role of
nicotine. These data include surveys, treatment studies, and experi-
mental laboratory studies and are briefly reviewed in this Section.
Retrospective Survey Data
Retrospective studies have been conducted with ex-smokers who
were participating in major surveys (Wynder, Knufman, Lesser 1967;
Hughes, Gust, Pechacek 1987) or who were patients with chronic
r~piratory problems (Bums 1969; Mausner 1970). Other studies
were conducted using subjects who responded to advertisements in
newspapers (Pedersen and Lefcoe 1976) or were contacted by word of
mouth (Trahir 1967). The subjects in these studies had either quit
smoking recently, had quit smoking for more than 1 year, or had at
least one episode of remaining abstinent for 24 hr. Although the
reliability of these data are limited because they are from retrospec-
tive self-reports, they provide information on the prevalence and
nature of symptoms which may be experienced by smoke-deprived
persons and acutely abstinent smokers.
Symptoms reported by significant numbers of ex-smokers includ-
ed: ~'crnviug" for tobacco (Hughes, Gust, Pechncek 1987; Trahir 1987;
Burns 1989; Mausner 1970; Pederson and Lefcoe 1976); restlessness,
nervousness, or irritability (Trahir 1967; Wynder, Knufman, Lesser
1967; Burns 1989; Mausner 1970; Hughes, Gust, Pechacek 1987);
anxiety (Hughes, Gust, Pechacok 1987); impatience (Hughes, Gust,
Pechacek 1987); difficulty concentrating (Trahir 1967; Wynder,
Kuufman, Lesser 1967; Hughes, Gust, Pechacok 1987); somatic or
physical complaints (Hughes, Gust, Pechacek 1987; Pederson and
Lefcoe 1976); increased appetite (Wynder, Kaufman, Lesser 1967;
Hughes, Gust, Pechacek 1987); increased food intake C~Vynder,
Kanfman, Lesser 1967); and weight gain (Trahir 1967; Wynder,
Kaufman, Lesser 1967; Mausner 1970; Pederson and Lefcoe 1976).
Measures of the incidence and magnitude of signs and symptoms
vary across studies, at least partly because of the diversity of the
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TABLE 5.--Diagnostic categorization and criteria for nicotine withdrawal
Nicotine-induced organic mentaL disorder
29200 Nicotine Withdrawal
The essential feature of this dis0~der is a characteristic withdrawal
syndrome ~ue to the ahrupl cessat~n of or redtlcti~il in (he Iase of nicot(he-
contvintog substances leg,, cigarettel, cigars, and pipes, chewlng tobacco, or
nicotine gum) that has been at least medera~e in dttration arid amount. The
eyndrome includes craving for nicotine; irritability, eustration, or anger:
anxle~y; difficuLty concetttrating; regtle~sness~ decreased heart rate; /~nd
increased appetite or weight gain.
In many heavy cigarette Jmokerll, chalages in mood and perfe~rmartce that
are related to withdrawal e~n he detected within 2 hours after the last tobacco
use. The ~nse of craving appears to reach u peak within the first 24 hours
after cessation of tobacco use, and Srndually declines thereafter over a few days
to several weeks¸ In s~y given case it is difflcu[t to* distinguish a withdrawal
effect from the emergence of psychological trMt~ that were st~ppressedl
controlled, or altered by the effects of nicotine or from s heh&vioral reaction
le~., frustration) tv the to~s of a reJbforeer~
MiLd symptoms of withdrawal may ot~tlr aeei" 6wftching to low tar/nicotine
cigarettes ned sfter stopping the use of smnhe]ess (chewJngl tobacco or ni¢otlne
gum
The dlasr~eLq d Nfeoti~e Withdrawal ia u~uaJJy se)f-ev$~em from the
person's history, and disappearance of the symptoms if smokJ~g Js resurned is
confirmatory. However, withdrawal acre other l~ycSoactive st~bgt~ne*s m~ly take
place simultaneously, and produce similar sympt~rnS.
Di~guc~tfo Criteria for Nicotine Withdrawal
A. Daily use of nicotine for at lealt *everaJ weel~
e Abrupt ¢e~d, ation of nicotine use, or redu~tlon in the amount of nicotine
used. followed w~thla 24 hours by at le~t fo~r of the following si~s:
(I) Craving for nicotine
(2) Irritability, frustration, or anger
Anxiety
(4) I~ffficuity concentrating
(5) Restiessness
(6) Decreased heart rate
(7) Increased ap~tit* or weight gain
SOURCe: Condense~ from the Ar~ericBn i~¥¢hlatric Ass~i~t~on (19~71
measuring instruments and techniques used, questions asked, and
populations examined. Collectively, the results of many such studies
suggest that most nicotme.deprlved cigarette smokers experience at
least one symptom of the tobacco withdrawal syndrome, that
between one-fourth and one-half show significant withdrawal, and
that about one-fourth report no withdrawal at all (Pederson and
Lefcoe 1976; Wynder, Kaufman, Lesser 1967; Hughes, Gust, Pecha-
cek 1987; Gritz 1980; Henningfield 1984). Of those persons who
retrospectively report experiencing no withdrawal symptoms, it is
unclear whether they were not physically dependent, whether the
assessment instruments were not sufficiently sensitive, or whether
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some persons are less impaired or discomforted by withdrawal
symptoms.
Prospective Data from Laboratory and Nonlaboratory
Studies
Cigarette smokers have been studied both in laboratory and
nonlaboratory settings using a variety of self- and observer.adminis.
tered tests measuring subjective, behavioral, and physiological signs
and symptoms that accompany tobacco deprivation. The studies have
examined changes in functioning resulting after periods of tobacco
deprivation ranging from 1 hr to 21 days. Most studies have obtained
both baseline and deprivation measures; a few studies have incorpo-
rated a control group of continuing smokers or nonsmokers; and a
few have obtained data after smokers resumed smoking or were
given nicotine pelacrilex gum. The studies included ones which were
conducted while the subjects were residing on a research ward, were
living in their usual environment, or were paying occasional visits to
a clinic for smoking cessation treatment. The symptoms reported in
these studies were similar to those obtained from the retrospective
studies, demonstrating generality across method and setting. These
symptoms included the following: "craving" for tobacco (Gritz and
Jarvik 1973; Hatsukami et al. 1984; Gilbert and Pope 1982; Shiffman
and Jarvik 1976; Cummings et al. 1985; Hughes and Hatsukami
1986), irritability or anger (Myrsten, Elgerot, Edgren 1977; Elgeret
1978; Weybrew and Stark 1967; Hughes and Hatsukami 1986),
anxiety and tension (Mrysten, Elgerot, Edgren 1977; Hughes and
Hatsukami 1986), restlessness (Hughes and Hatsukami 1986), impa-
tience (Hughes and Hatsukami 1986), depression (Hatsukami at al.
1984), problems with concentration (Hatsukami et el. 1984; Weybrew
and Stark 1967; Myrsten, Elgerot, Edgren 1977; Frankenhaeuser et
el. 1971; Hughes and Hatsukami 1986), drowsiness or fatigue
(Weybrew and Stark 1957), sleep disturbances (Hatsukami et al.
1984; Larson, Haag, Silvette 1981; Weybrew and Stark 1967;
Myrsten, Elgerot, Edgren 1977; Hughes and Hatsukami 1986), and
increased hunger or appetite (Myrsten, Elgeret, Edgren 1977;
Hughes and Hatsukami 1985).
In one study (Hughes and Hatsukami 1986), each subject had a
spouse, relative, or friend rate some of the symptoms of withdrawal
to verify self-report. These observer ratings of irritability, anxiety,
restlessness, drowsiness, fatigue, impatience, and somatic complaints
were all significantly related to their respective subject's ratings,
thus adding to the validity of reports of these symptoms. These
researchers found that the most common self-repert symptoms were
increased irritability (80 percent), anxiety (87 percent), difficulty
concentrating (73 percent), restlessness (71 percent), impatience (76
percent), insomnia (84 percent), and craving for tobacco (82 percent).
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Seventy-eight percent of the subjects reported four or more DSM-III
criteria. This degree of prevalence was higher than that found in a
retrospective study conducted by Hughes, Gust, and Pechacek (1987),
possibly reflecting differences in the measuring instruments or the
populations themselves.
The physiological changes which have been found to occur after
• cigarette deprivation include decreased heart rate (Knapp, Bliss,
Wells 1963; Murpbee and Schultz 1968; Parsons, Avery etal. 1975;
Benowitz, Kuyt, Jacob 1984; Hatsukami et al. 1984; Weybrcw and
Stark 1967; Gilbert and Pope 1982; Hughes and Hatsukami 1986;
West and Russell 1987; Elgerot 1978; West, Jarvis et al. 1984;
Henningfield 1987a) and decreased cortical arousal as evidenced by
decreases in peak alpha frequency and increases in low frequency
activity which appear to be associated with drowsiness and decreased
vigilance (Knott and Venables 1977, 1979; Ulett and Itil 1969;
Hernlng, Jones, Bachman 1988; Herning 1987). Knott and Venables
(1978) hsve also found that the visual evoked response in tobacco-
deprived smokers showed faster lateneies and larger amplitudes for
low-stimulus intensities than among nondeprived smokers and
nonsmokers. They concluded that deprived smokers experience CNS
hypersensitivity and, as a result, may experience visual stimulus
input more easily and strongly. Hall and colleagues (1973) reported
reduced auditory evoked response (AER) amplitudes during tobacco
withdrawal. Blood pressure (Benowitz, Kuyt, Jacob 1984; Murphee
and Sehultz 1968; Knapp, Bliss, Wells 1963) and respiratory rate
(Parsons etal. 1976) have also been found to decrease during
abstinence. Studies have also reported an increase in skin tempera-
ture among tobacco-deprived smokers (Gilbert and Pope 1982;
Myrsten, Elgerot, Edgcen 1977) or no change (West and Russell
1987), and either a decrease (FagerstrSm 1978) or no significant
change (Hateukami et al. 1984) in body temperature among those
who are classified as more dependent. Although some studies have
reported insomnia and sleep disturbance following tobacco depriva-
tion, tobacco.deprived smokers' total sleep time may be longer
during withdrawal (Soldatos et el. 1980). Reported changes in sleep
pattern include decreased latency to rapid-eye-movement (REM)
sleep (Kales etal. 1970), decreased latency to light (delta electroen-
cephalogram (EEG) wave) sleep onset (Parsons, Luttrell et al. 1975;
Parsons and Hamme 1976), and increased total REM sleep time
(Soldatos et al. 1980; Kales et al. 1970; Parsons, Avery et al. 1975).
Another physical change found among tebacco-deprived smokers is
an increase in weight (Grunberg 1986; see also Chapter VI). Weight
increase has also been found among those who quit smoking in a
number of longitudinal survey studies (Bosso, Garvey, Costa 1980).
This increase in weight has been attributed to increased calorie
intake (Hateukami et al. 1984; Grunberg 1982; Myrsten, Elgerot,
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F~dgren 1977; Bursa et al. 1975; Gilbert and Pope 1982; Wack and
Rodin 1982), decreased basal metabolism (Glanser et aL 1970; Wack
and Rodin 1982), decreased energy expenditure (Hofstetter et el.
1986), or increased activity of lipepretain lipase (Carney and
Goldberg 1984) (see also Chapter VI).
Several studies have examined the effects of cigarette deprivation
and administration on reaction time and psychomotor performance.
These are reviewed in detail in Chapter V! and are only briefly
summarized here. Two early studies each found considerable across-
subject variability, with some subjects showing distinct deprivation-
induced performance impairments which were reversed by tobacco
administration, and other subjects showing impairments under the
tobacco administration conditions (Bates 1922; Carver 1922). Since
the studies by Bates and Carver, investigators have developed
increasingly sophisticated methods of performance assessment
which have led to a clearer understanding of the performance-
related affects of nicotine administration and deprivation (see details
in Chapter VI). For example, Heimstra, Bancroft, end DeKock (1967)
used a simulated driving task and found that deprived smokers made
significantly more errors on tracking and vigilance tasks than did
nondeprived smokers or nonsmokers, who did not significantly differ
from each other. Other research has demonstrated that smokers who
were allowed to smoke cigarettes during the experimental session
exhibited either no decrease or an improvement in speed and
accuracy in reaction time, cognitive tests, and/or vigilance perfor-
mance tasks, whereas deprived smokers most frequently show some
impairment in performance tasks (Myrsten et aL 1972; Franken-
haeuser et el. 1971; Elgecet 1978; Kleinman, Vanghn, Christ 1978;
Anderssan 1975; Washes and Warburton 1984; Edwards et el. 1985;
Snyder and Henningfield, in press; Henningfield 1986a, 1987a).
A recent study using a computerized battery of such tasks found
clear impairments beginning within 8 hr of the last cigarette and
improving only somewhat across 10 consecutive days of tobacco
deprivation; resumption of smoking was accompanied by complete
restoration of performance (Henningfield 1987a). The specificity of
these performance effects of nicotine was confirmed by the findings
that administration of nicotine in the polasrilex gum form produced
a dose-relatad reversal of all performance impairments (Snyder and
Henningfield, in press; Henningfield 1987a); this effect was not
related to satisfaction or reduction of "craving" because the gum
produced dose-related decreases in "liking" scores and produced no
reliable decrease in "desire to smoke" (Henningfield 1987a).
Other changes occurring in tobacco-deprived cigarette smokers
include increases in aggression scores on the Buss aggression
machine (Schechtar and Rand 1974) and increases in frequency of
spontaneous jaw contractions (a putative analog of aggression)
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(Hutchinson and I~mley 1973). Analogously, monkeys withdrawn
from chronic oral nicotine exposure (nicotine was placed in their
drinking water) exhibited an increase in frequency of post-shcok
biting (Hutchinson and Emiey 1973),
The magnitude of tobacco withdrawal is related to the environ-
mental context (see Chapter V for a comparison to other dependence-
producing drugs). For example, Hatsukami, Hughes, and Pickens
(1985) reported that smokers who were deprived of cigarettes on an
outpatient basis experienced more withdrawal symptoms than those
who underwent withdrawal on a clinical research ward. These
findings are consistent with those of Suedfsld and Ikard (1974), who
found that deprivation of normal sensory stimulation reduced
• tobacco abstinence*asscoiated discomfort. It has also been observed
that the diurnal variation of withdrawal discomfort found among
abstinent smokers (greater discomfort in the evenings) appears to be
associated with diurnal variation in the social environment (e.g.,
meals, departure from work, or social contact) (Shiffman 1979).
Time Course of Responses to Nicotine Abstinence
Drug withdrawal syndromes generally include some signs and
symptoms which are opposite those produced by administration of
the drug.and which then return to approximately the same values
observed when drug intake was stable (rebound phenomena). The
time course of different responses varies (Chapter V). The most
recent studies show that several signs and symptoms df withdrawal
appear to rebound within the first few days following cigarette
abstinence; these signs and symptoms include increases in the urge
to use tobacco, anxiety, problems with concentration, increased
calorie intake, sleep disturbance, performance impairment, and
general subjective distress (Hatsukami et al. 1984; Hughes and
Hatsukami 1986; Schneider and Jarvik 1984; Cummings et el. 1985;
Henningfield 1987a). Heart rate has been found to decrease to levels
found among nonsmokem (Weybrew and Stark 1967) and may
include some rebound, returning to stable ]~els between those
maintained during normal cigarette smoking and those recorded
during the first week of abstinence (Henningfield 1987al. The P300
response, a cognitive evoked potential component which is related to
the ability to evaluate auditory stimuli (i.e., differentiate one sound
from another by counting only certain sounds), showed n rebound
(decrease in amplitude), with values returning to preabstinence
(cigarette smoking) levels after about 3 to 5 days (Herning 1987).
West, Runnel, Jarvis, Pizzey, and Kadam (1984) reported that urinary
epinephrine concentrations rebounded with a significant decrease
during the first 3 days of abstinence followed by a significant
increase, Finally, in the squirrel monkey study of nicotine absti,
nence-asseeiated biting, Hutchinson and Emley (1973) found a
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distinct rebound pattern in some subjects with biting levels sharply
increasing and then returning to the levels observed during chronic
oral nicotine administration.
Other signs and symptoms associated with tobacco abstinence do
not return to levels observed during cigarette smoking. For example,
weight gain has persisted for long periods of time (Blltzer, Rimm,
Giefer 1977) and has also been reported to approach levels of
nonsmokers (Khosla and Lowe 1971; Lincoln 1969; Chapter VI), In
addition, some levels of performance impairment and associated
reduction of a cognitive evoked cortical potential (N10O), which is
related to attention, persists at least l0 days and may last longer
(Henningfield 1987a; Herning 1987).
As the preceding studies suggest, the duration of withdrawal
varies among studies and as a function of the measure (Shiffman
1978; West 1984). Urges to smoke cigarettes among ex-smokers has
been reported to occur intermittently, although sometimes with
great intensity, for up to 9 years after cessation of cigarette smoking.
These reported symptoms may represent conditioned responses to
environmental stimuli associated with either cigarette smoking or
deprivation, may represent a protracted physiological phase of
withdrawal, or both (e.g., Wikler 1965; Jasinski 1981; Chapter V).
Alleviation of Withdrawal Symptoms by Cigarette Smoking
Several studies have demonstrated that the signs and symptoms
resulting from cigarette deprivation are alleviated by the resump-
tion of cigarette smoking. These signs and symptoms include heart
rate OVIarpboe and Schultz 1968; Weybrew and Stark 1967; Henning-
field lg87a), blood pressure (Murphee and Sehultz 1968), skin
temperature (Myrsten, Elgerot, Edgren 1977), epinephrine and
norepinephrine levels (Myrsten, Elgerot, Edgren 1977), EEG changes
(Ulett and Itil 1969; Herning 1987), weight (Noppa and Bengtsson
1986), desire for food (Bursa et al. 1975), hand tremor (Myrsten,
Elgerot, Edgren 1977), desire to smoke (Gritz and Jarvik 1973), and
fatigue, irritation, sleeplessness, problems with alertness and con-
centration (Weybrew and Stark 1967), and performance (Henning-
field 1987a).
Hughes, Hatsukami, Pickens, and Svikis (1984) examined the
consistency of tobacco withdrawal signs and symptoms using an
experimental design in which periods of cigarette smoking and
abstinence were alternated in the same subjects. This study demon-
strated both the consistency of the withdrawal symptomology within
subjects as well as the efficacy of resumed smoking in reversing it,
The most consistent withdrawal effects across subjects were supine
heart rate changes, insomnia, caloric intake, irritability, rest-
lessness, drowsiness, general mood disturbance (measured by the
Profile of Mood States), and withdrawal discomfort. Furthermore,
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the intensities of the withdrawal discomfort of subjects during the
two deprivation periods were similar. Similarly, a study at the
Addiction Research Center (Baltimore, Maryland) showed that
resumption ef cigarette smoking after 10 days of tobacco abstinence
was accompanied by a return to preabstinence levels of all measures
including EEG, evoked cortical electrical potentials, heart rate,
behavioral performance, and measures of meed (Henningfield 1987a;
Herning 1987).
Relationship Between Preabstlnence Nicotine Intake and
Magnitude of Withdrawal Syndrome
The observation that the magnitude of tobacco withdrawal reac-
tions is directly related te preabstinenee levels of nicotine intake
prbvides specific evidence that nicotine is the pharmacologic cause of
the physical dependence. The clinical significance of these relation-
ships is that both the magnitude efthe tobacco withdrawal syndreme
and difficulty in quitting smoking are directly related to the daily
levels of nicotine that were being ingested. The relatienship has not
always been observed, however, when only crude indices of nicotine
desing were used. For example, correlations between number of
cigarettes smeked per day (a poor marker ef nicotine intake)
(Benowitz 1983; Abrams et ah 1987; Chapter II) and withdrawal
severity are mixed across studios. Some investigators have ebserved
a positive correlation between the number of cigarettes smoked per
day and Withdrawal severity (Wynder, Kaufman, Lesser 1967;
Shiffman 1979; Burns 1969; Hall, Ginsburg, Jones 1986). Others have
reported ne differences in severity of craving or other measures of
withdrawal between light and heavy smokers er as a function of
number of cigarettes smoked (Grits and Jarvik 1973; Shiffman and
Jarvik 1976; Myrsten, Elgerot, Edgren 1977; Mausner 1970). Cum-
mings and coworkers (i985) reported that although heavy smokers
reported more withdrawal symptoms than light smokers, differences
between heavy and light smokers were statistically significant only
with respect to irritability,
The most reliable measure of day-to-day nicotine exposure appears
to be cotinine in biological specimens or nicotine itself (Benowitz
1983; Chapter II). Recent studies using such measures haw found
significant relationships between either nicotine or cotinine levels
and severity of withdrawal. Pomerleau, Fertig, and Shanhan (1983)
divided subjects by their baseline plasma cotinlne levels (high or low
quartiles). They found that subjects in the low-cotinine quartile
exhibited less withdrawal change en the Shiffman Craving and
Perception of Physlcal Signs subscales compared with subjects in the
high-cotinine quartile. They also found a significant correlation
between preabstinence baseline plasma cotinine levels and absti-
nenco.asseclated cravlng for cigarettes, Hatsukami, Hughes, and
e
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Q
Plckens (1985) established a similar significant correlation between
craving for tobacco and plasma nicotine level, as well as nicotine
boost. Zeldenberg and associates (1977) found that preabstinense
serum cotinine was correlated significantly with the degree of
difficulty in smoking cessation among males but not females.
Finally, West and Russell (1985b) determined that whereas preabsti-
nonce plasma nicotine levels significantly predicted craving, hunger,
restlessness, inability to concentrate, and overall withdrawal severi-
ty, preabstinence rates of daily cigarette consumption did not
significantly predict any withdrawal effects.
Smokeless Tobacco Withdrawal Syndrome
A study of withdrawal reactions accompanying abstinence from
smokeless tobacco products helped to determine .that the syndrome
did not require inhalation of smoke and its constituents, 'which are
not present in smokeless tobacco (e,g., tar and CO.), This study
showed that signs and symptoms of smokeless tobacco deprivation
are similar to those occurring Jn smokers after cigarette deprivation
(Hatsukami, Gust, Keenan 1987). In persons who had been using a
high nicotine containing brand of chewing tobacco, Hatsukami, Gust,
and Keenan (1987) measured a number of potential withdrawal signs
and symptoms over a 6*day period. Baseline data were collected
during 3 days of regular smokeless tobaco use. The significant
changes which occurred during smokeless tobacco deprivation rela-
tive to the baseline included decreased heart rate and an increase in
craving for tobacco, confusion, eating, number of awakenings, and
total scores on a withdrawal symptom checklist for beth self-rated
and observer-rated measures, These changes were simi]ar to those
found among cigarette smokers who underwent a similar experimen-
tal protocol, although smokeless tobacco withdrawal appeared to be
less severe than cigarette withdrawal (Hatsukami, Gust, Keanan
1987).
Nicotine Polacrilex Gum: Treatment and Physical
Dependence
Nicotine pelaerilex gum has been used to evaluate the specific role
of nicotine in tobacco dependence. Experimental research and
clinical observations of the ability of nicotine in the polaorilex gum
form to alleviate tobacco withdrawal symptomatology provide Con-
clusive evidence that the tobacco withdrawal syndrome is pharmaco-
logically determined by physical dependence on nicotine. To the
extent that the tobacco withdrawal phenomena described above are
specific to nicotine and not characteristic of the delivery system (e.g.,
cigarette smoke), alternate forms of nicotine delivery should be able
to sustain the physical dependence. This would be evidenced by (i)
blockade of signs and symptoms of withdrawal by nicotine delivery
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and (2) subsequent emergence of a tobacco withdrawal-like syndrome
upon abrupt abstinence from nontobacco-delivered nicotine.
Treatment of Withdrawal Symptoms
Clinical trials and experimental studies in which nicotine polacri-
lex gum is evaluated as a means to alleviate signs and symptoms of
tobacco withdrawal are of relevance to the treatment of tobacco
dependence (Chapter VII). In addition, however, such data are
analogous to data from the classic "substitution" study methodology
used to help determine the pharmacologic specificity of withdrawal
reactions following use of opioids, sedatives, and alcohol (described in
Chapter V). In brief, however, the objective is to determine if the
withdrawal reaction from the primary substance upon which the
person is dependent can be alleviated by administration of a test.
drug.
Several studies have examined the effects of nicotine polacrilex
gum on tobacco withdrawal (Jarvis et al. 1982; Schneider, Jarvik,
Forsythe 1984; West, Jarvis et al. 1984; Hughes, Hatsukami,
Pickens, Krahn et al. 1984; Snyder and Henningfield, in press;
Henningfield 1987a). These studies have examined two groups of
cigarette smokers who were assigned in a double-blind fashion (with
the exception of West, Jarvis and colleagues (1984), who used a
single-blind design) to receive 2-rag polaerilex gum or placebo. The
duration of cigarette deprivation during which the polacrilex gum
(or. placebo) was used varied from 24 hr to 6 weeks. In general, the
results consistently showed an attenuation of withdrawal signs and
symptoms. For example, nicotine polacrilex gum significantly z;e"
duced irritability (Jarvis et al. 1982; Hughes, Hatsukami, Pickens,
Krahn et al. 1984; West, Jarvis et al. 1984), total withdrawal
discomfort (Schneider, Jarvik, Forsythe 1984; Hughes, Hatsukami,
Pickens, Krahn et al. 1984), somatic complaints (Hughes, Hatsuka-
mi, Pickens, Krahn et al. 1984), sleepiness (Jarvis et al. 1982),
unsociability (West, Jarvis et al. 1984), cognitive performance
deficits (Snyder and Henningfield, in press; Henningfield 1987a),
heart rate decreases (Schneider, Jarvik, Forsythe 1984; West, Jarvis
et al. 1984; Henningfield 1987a), and EEG effects including changes
in cortical evoked potentials (Herning 1987; Pickworth, Herning,
Henningfield, in press).
Other measures were less reliably alleviated; these included
depression (Jarvis et al. 1982; West, Jarvis et al. 1984), anxie-
ty/tension (Jarvis et al. 1982; Hughes, Hatsukami, Piekens, Krahn at
al. 1984), difficulty concentrating (Hughes, Hatsukami, Pickens,
Krahn et al. 1984; West, Jarvis et al. 1984), and restlessness (Hughes,
Hatsukami, Piekens, Krahn et al. 1984; West, Jarvis et al. 1984). The
urge to smoke cigarettes has not been found to be reliably alleviated
by nicotine polacrilex gum administration (West and Schneider
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1087; West 1984; Henningfleld 1987a; Hughes, Hatsukami. Pickens,
Svikis 1984) except possibly at high dose levels (Nemeth-Coslett,
Henningfield, O'Ksefe, Griffiths 1987). Interpretation of such data is
complicated by the diverse strategies used to measure the urge to
smoke or "craving" as discussed further in this Section.
Of these studies, two showed nonsignificant effects of nicotine
polacrilex gum on hunger (Hughes, Hatsukami, Pickens, Krahn et
el. 1984; West, Jarvis et at. 1984) and one showed significant effects
in decreasing hunger (Jarvis et el. 1982). More recent research shows
that the anorastic effect of nicotine polaerilex gum during tobacco
abstinence is directly related to the dose level (i.e., number of doses
taken per day) (Stitzer and Gross 1988; Fagerstrdm 1987; Chapter
VI). The dose-response relationship may explain the diversity in
results when studios are compared; in some of these studies, dosing
was. either poorly: controlled or not reported, or there was no
verification of subject compliance with a dose regimen:
As would be expected, depending on the dose administered, the
efficacy of nicotine polaerilex gum for most measures of withdrawal
ranges from complete reversal of withdrawal to no effect. In a study
in which periods of tobacco abstinence (3 days) were alternated with
periods of cigarette smoking (4 days), subjasts were given either 0", 2-,
or 4-rag-nicotine-containing pieces of the pelacrilex gum (Henning-
field 1987a). The subjects were given the polasrilex gum at 1 hr
intervals (for 12 hr), and they chewed under the direction of research
• staff. Blood nicotine and cotinine levels confirmed that this proce-
dure resulted in dose-related nicotine administration; plasma coti-
nine and nicotine levels at 4 mg were similar to those obtained
during cig'aret te smoking (ad libltum smoking); plasma levels at 2 mg
were between those at 4 and 0 rag. Measures included cognitive
performance, heart rate, EEG, and self-reported symptomology. At 4
rag, all signs and symptoms of withdrawal were reduced or complete-
ly reversed except the desire to smoke. The 2-rag dose produced
partial reversal of withdrawal effects.
Maintenance of Physical Dependence
Two studies have examined withdrawal effects after deprivation of
nicotine polacrilex gum. West and Russell (1985a) conducted a study
in which they examined withdrawal symptoms in six people who
used nicotine polacrilex gum for at least 1 year. Baseline measures of
possible withdrawal effects were collected during days that the
subjects were chewing 2-rag pieces of nicotine polasrilex gum. These
days were the first and third days of a 4-day experiment. On the
second and fourth days, subjects were given either 0.5 rng unbuffered
polaorilex gum (nicotine absorption is negligible in the unbuffered
formulation) to chew or no polacrilex gum. West and Russell (1985a)
found significant changes for measures of withdrawal including
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irritability, ability to concentrate, and heart rate and for composite
subjective withdrawal scores. Withdrawal magnitude was slightly,
but not significantly, less in the unbuffered gum than in the no gum
condition.
Hughes, Hatsukami, and Skoog (1986) extended the findings of
West and Russell (1985a) with a longer period of observation (1 week)
and a double-blind, placebo-controlled design. In the study by
Hughes, Hatsukami, and Skoog (1986), eight former smokers who
had been using nicotine polaerilex gum for at least 1 month
participated+ The m~dn finding was that when the maintenance dose
levels (2-rag polacrilex gum) were replaced with placebo, reliable
symptoms of withdrawal were produced. The effects included
"craving" for tobacco, irritability/hestility, anxiety, depression,
restlessness, impatience, difficulty concentrating, hunger, and total
withdrawal discomfort; reports from observers verified several of the
effects (i.e., observer estimates of irritability, anxiety, restlessness,
impatience, and total withdrawal discomfort). The scales used to
measure withdrawal discomfort in the study by Hughes and c01-
leagues were similar to those used in a previous study of cigarette
withdrawal conducted by the same investigators (Hughes and
Hatsukami 1986), thus enabling an across-study comparison between
abstinence from cigarettes and abstinence from nicotine in the
polacrilex gum form. Intensities and numbers of withdrawal symp-
toms, except heart rate and insomnia, were similar.
Taken together, the results of the abeve-deseribed studies with
nicotine pelaerilex gum have helped to confirm that tobacco
withdrawal is pharmacologically caused by physical dependence on
nicotine. Furthermore, the results of such work are of clinical
significance because they indicate that much of tobacco withdrawal
symptemology can be treated with nicotine polaerilex gum. Two
studies show that nicotine polaerilex gum can maintain physical
dependence; this emphasizes the importance of gradually giving up
use of the gum to minimize the abruptness and severity of
withdrawal symptoms (see Chapter VII).
Tobacco Craving
The measurement of self-reported craving for tobacco and inter-
pretation of resulting data are among the more complicated issues in
tobacco research. Findings discussed in this Chapter that nicotine
polacrilex gum administration can suppress cigarette smoking and
alleviate physical signs of tobacco withdrawal while having little
effect on the urge to smoke indicate that such urges are not solely
determined by nicotine deprivation. Similar observations regarding
urges to use other dependence-producing drugs are discussed in
Chapter V (see also Childress et ak, in press). The eticitation and
alleviation of the urge to use tobacco, as for other dependence-
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producing substances, can be effected by a variety of pharmacologic
and other environmental stimuli as well as changes in the physiolog-
ical and/or behavioral state of the person (Chapter V).
Conclusions regarding the measurement and treatment of urges to
use drugs are complicated because the questions about urges have
been worded differently among studies. For example, subjects are
semtimes asked to report their "craving." Unfortunately, subjects
very widely in their interpretations of the word"craving" and in their
answers to questions about it (Kozlowski and Wilkinson 1987;
Ludwig and Stark 1974). In addition, results concerning "craving"
are sometimes discussed when the word was not even used in study
questionnaires, and sometimes craving was inferred from other
observations (e.g., self-reported discomfort or drug abstinence) (Koz-
lowski and Wilkinson 1987). These and other problematic issues
have been discussed in several recent papers (Kozlowski and
Wilkinson 1987; Shiffman 1987; West 1987; Hughes 1987; Marlatt
1987; Steckwell 1987; Henalngfield 1987b; Henalngfield and Brown
1987; West and Schneider 1987). One consensus that seems to
emerge is that the term "craving" be replaced with "urge" or
"desire" to smoke, and that subjects be asked to report the
"strength" of such responses and not simply whether or not the
re,pease occurred (Kozlowski and Wilkinson 1987; Hennlngfield
1987b).
In consideration of the above reports and commentaries and the
data reviewed in the present Chapter, the following conclusions may
be drawn regarding the urge to smoke. Many means of measuring
urges are reliably associated with early abstinence from tobacco;
however, urges can also be elicited by a variety of other stimuli
including cigarette smoking itself, tebaoco-associated stimuli (e.g.,
sight, smell, advertisements), consumption of other psychoactive
drugs, food deprivation, and mood changes. Furthermore, although
urges are reliably associated with tobacco abstinence, the levels to
which plasma nicotine must fall to produce it are unclear; for
example, West, Russell, Jarvis, and Feyerbond (1984) found that
smokers who switched to a low-nicotins cigarette reported only slight
craving for their usual brand in spite of a drop in nicotine intake of
around 60 percent. In addition, as discussed earlier, some sensory
stimuli are effective at eliciting urges, whereas other sensory cues
accompanying the inhalation of cigarette smoke may be effective at
diminishing such urges (Rose et al. 1985). Chapter V provides a
discussion of these issues in the context of analogous observations
which have been made with other dependence-producing drugs and
Chapter VII discusses the implications for replacement therapy used
in treating tobacco dependence.
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Alternate NicoUne Delivery Systems
Certain effects of nicotine depend little upon the specific type of
delivery system that is used (see also Chapters, II, III, and VI). For
instance, it appears likely that all forms of nicotine delivery
resulting in systemic absorption are capable of producing tolerance
and maintaining physical dependence (see also Chapter II). Similar-
ly, it follows that a variety of nicotine delivery systems have
potential utility in the treatment of cigarette smoking by the
alleviation of withdrawal symptoms. However, the safety, including
the potential to produce dependence, may vary considerably as a
function of characteristics of the nicotine delivery system itself.
Kinds of Nicotine Delivery Systems
Because nicotine is well absorbed through the common routes of
drug delivery and because the commonly used tobacco vehicle is not
necessary to efficaciously deliver nicotine, nicotine can potentially
be placed in a variety of vehicles and administered via a variety of
delivery systems (Chapter II; Benowitz 1986; Jarvik and Henning-
field, in press). The nicotine delivery systems thus far discussed in
this Chapter are tobacco smoke, nicotine polacrilex gum, i.v.
nicotine, transdermal nicotine, and a nicotine vapor inhaler. Other
potential therapeutic nicotine delivering systems under development
include a nasal spray (Perkins et al. 1986) and nasal nicotine
solutions given in droplet form (Russell, Jarvis, Feyerabend, Ferno
1983), both of which have been discussed by Russell (1988). Two other
nicotine delivery systems are a chewable food product (Tobacco
International 1987) and a "toothpaste" formulation which contains
ground tobacco. Other nicotine delivering systems (in which the
tobacco may be incidental and not necessary for nicotine delivery)
are under development or consideration for over-the-counter retail
marketing (R.J, Reynolds "Smokeless Cigarette" European Patent
Application 1985, 1986; Cleghorn 1987; Mints 1987).
As noted earlier, the nicotine vapor inhaler was removed from the
retail market in February of 1987 by the FDA because it was a
"nicotine delivery system intended to satisfy nicotine dependence"
which had not been tested for safety and efficacy (Slade and Connelly
1987). At least through the end of 1987, the toothpaste-like formula-
tion was available as an ever-the-oounter product but was under
review by the FDA (FDA letter to Congressman Waxman); this
formulation is distributed in Indian food stores. The chewable
nicotine delivering product marketed by Pinkerten Inc. was test-
marketed as a "tobacco product" for approximately 6 months during
1987. The FDA removed it from the market ruling that it was a "food
product" ["chewing gum"] which was "unlike traditional smokeless
tobacco products," and contained a "food additive [tobacco] deemed
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unsafe" for human consumption (FDA letter to Congressman
Waxman).
Safety of Alternate Nicotine Delivery Systems
Alternate nicotine delivery systems may be evaluated with respect
to at least three categories of safety issues. These are: (I) short- and
long-term toxic effects resulting from use of the system; (2) the ease
and convenience of using the system; and (3) the dependence potential
of the system. All of these factors can affect initiation and mainte-
nance of nicotine dependence.
The first safety issue is related to the direct behavioral and
physioiogica] toxicity of the preparation itself. In the moderate
nicotine doses that each of these and previously marketed systems
deliver, acute nicotine toxicity would not appear to be a significant
health risk. However, adverse health effects from chronic exposure
to nicotine may occur (see Appendix B), and other potentially
absorbed constituents of the system (e.g., tar) are markedly toxic.
Existing nicotine delivery systems vary widely in their potential
overall toxicity. One product was found to meet FDA criteria for
safety as well as efficacy (i.e., nicotine polaerilex gum). On the other
hand, cigarette smoking is a cause of lung cancer and other cancers,
emphysema, heart disease, and a variety of other diseases; smokeless
tobacco use causes oral cancer and other forms of gum and mouth
disease (US DHEW 1979; US DHHS 1982, 1983, 1984; US DHHS
1986b).
Traditional tobacco products have historically been considered by
the FDA to be outside its regulatory purview (Action on Smoking
and Health vs. Harris 1980). New products, which contain either
small amounts of tobacco (e.g., tobaeeo-containing food products) or
which appear to contain possibly nonessential amounts of tobacco
(e.g., possibly the case with the R.J. Reynolds smokeless cigarette
(European Patent Application 1985, 1986)) and which are not
regarded as traditional tobacco products, may not be exempt from
such review.
The second safety issue is the potential for the product to actually
sustain tobacco use by alternating use of the substitute with use of
the traditional tobacco product. This is analogous to the nonmedicai-
ly approved use of methadone by opioid-depaudent individuals when
their drug of choice (e.g., heroin) is not available, and they are not
involved in treatment for opioid dependence. The use of non-tebaeeo
nicotine products to sustain tobacco use is, similarly, medically
contraindicated and hence a form of nicotine abuse (Slade 1986;
Richards 1987). While any alternative nicotine delivery system can
theoretically be used for this purpose, two commercial products (the
chewable nicotine-delivering "food" product and the nicotine vapor
inhaler) were marketed specifically as temporary substitutes for
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cigarettes when it was inconvenient to smoke (Bosy 1986; Tobacco
International 1987). In contrast, the instructions for use of nicotine
polacrilex gum clearly specify that this preparation should not be
used along with cigarettes {Physicians' Desk Reference 1988). In
addition to product design and formulation, factors such as labeling,
packaging, marketing, retail distribution, and regulatory oversight
might influence the degree to which any particular preparation is
associated with an individual's continued use of the nicotine delivery
system.
The third potential safety concern is related to the dependence
potential of the system. As shown in Chapter V, the potential of a
drug to addict users is associated with its effects on mood, feeling,
and behavior; such effects are related to the bioavailability of the
drug. Systems with a controlled rate of bloavailability or a lesser rate
of absorption than is obtained from conventional tobacco products
may have a 'lesser dependence potential than tobacco products.
Other factors related to availability of the preparation and cost (both
economic and behavioral) may also affect the likelihood that
dependence will develop in users. For example, nicotine polacrilex
gum is available by prescription only, and use of' the gum is
recommended as a temporary treatment aid. Active chewing is
required to extract the nicotine, and swallowing the nicotine too
quickly reduces the amount absorbed. These factors appear relevant
to the observation that less than 10 percent of all subjects entering
smoking'treatment trials continue to use nicotine polaerilex gum
after 1 year (Tonnesen et al. 1988; Jarvis et al. 1982). Among people
who have used the polacrilex gum to quit smoking and who have
maintained their tobacco abstinence for 1 year or more, a higher
percentage of polacrilex gum use has been reported (13 to 38
percent); however, it is not clear to what degree such use may be
necessary for some people to avoid relapse to tobacco use (see further
discussion of these issues in Hughes 1988; Jasinski and Henningfield
1988; Hall et al. 1985; Tonnseen et al. 1988; Chapter VII). In contrast
to nicotine pelacrilex gum, smokeless tobacco products (particularly
one in which finely ground snuff is placed in a small tea bag-like
pouch) readily lend themselves to initiating as well as to maintaining
nicotine dependence (US DHHS 1986b).
Table 6 compares nicotine pelacrilex gum and cigarettes on a
number of dimensions, most of which have been reviewed in either
Chapters II, V, or VII. As shown in the Table, there is considerable
disparity between these two delivery systems: the polacrilex gum
provides a generally safe and medically beneficial form of nicotine
delivery; cigarettes are a known cause of substantial amounts of
death and disease each year (Chapter I; US DHEW 1979; US DHHS
1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985). Such a disparity in potential safety
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TABLE 6.---Compartson of tobacco cigarettes and nicotine
polacrilex gum on indices related to safety,
including potential to cause dependence
CbarvcterisLic
Tobacco eigaret~$
Nicotine polaerilex gum
Proven carcinogen YeS
No
Availability Widely available consumer
Prescription only
product, including veodi~g
machine availability
Taste Carefully formulated with
Not formulated to provide
flavor enhancers
desirable ~ste
of nicotine extraction Readily arguable with little
Much effort required
effort
Nicotine kinetics Rapid uptake
Slow uptake
Initlation Of dependence Highly effective No reported problem
Psychoactivity Dec, e-related "liking" Dose-related "disliking"
Reinforcing effe¢~ Powerful Weak
Withdrawal symptoms Yes
Yes
a~o~iated with al:~tinence
So~ial factors
Used for specific
therapeutic benefit
Primary re~latory
U~. Food and Drug
oversight Adminlst ration
Olin u~ in ~lal
Bettingsa~ part Of6ocial
interactions
U,S, Bureau of Alcohol,
Toby, and Fi~rms
across systems would suggest that any new system be submitted to
evaluations of safety including dependence-potential testing.
Conclusions
1. Cigarettes and other forms of tobacco are addicting. Patterns of
tobacco use are regular and compulsive, and a withdrawal
syndrome usually accompanies tobacco abstinence.
2. Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. Specifi-
cally, nicotine is psychoactive ("mood altering") and can
provide pleasurable effects. Nicotine can serve as a reinforcer
to motivate tobacco-seeking and tobaccc~using behavior. Toler-
ance develops to actions of nicotine such that repeated use
results in diminished effects and can be accompanied by
increased intake. Nicotine also causes physical dependence
characterized by a withdrawal syndrome that usually accompa-
nies nicotine abstinence.
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3. The physical characteristics of nicotine delivery systems can
affect their toxicity and addictiveness. Therefore, new nicotine
delivery systems should be evaluated for their toxic and
addictive effects.
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CHAPTER V
TOBACCO USE COMPARED
TO OTHER DRUG DEPENDENCIES
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Clinical Characteristics of Drug Dependence Drug Dependence Defined
Diagnostic Criteria for Drug Dependence
Features of Drug Dependence
Highly Controlled or Compulsive Drug Use
Physical Dependence and Tolerance
Harmful Effects
Course of Drug Dependence
Polydrug Dependence and Multiple Psychiatric
Diagnosis
SpontE/neous Remission
Chemical Detection Measures
Patterns in the Development of Drug Dependence
Current Use of Cigarettes and Other Drugs
Epidemiological Studies of the Progression of.Drug
Use
Tobacco Use as a Predictor of Other Drug Use
Frequency of Use of Cigarettes and Other Drugs
Initiation of Drug Use
Vulnerability to Drug Dependence: Individual and
Environmental Factors
Pharmacologic Determinants of Drug Dependence
How Drugs Control Behavior
Dependence Potential Testing,: Psychoactive, Reinforc-
ing, and Related Effects
Effects of Drugs on Mood and Feeling (Psy-
ehoactivity)
Methods and Results '
Drug Discrimination Testing
Methods and Results
Drug Self-Administration
Initiation of Drug Self-Administration
Evaluation of Reinforcing Effects
Results from Drug Self-Administration Studies
Drug Dose as a Determinant of Drug Intake
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Cost of the Drug as a Determinant of Intake
Place Conditioning Studies
Constraints on Dependence Potential Testing
Dependence Potential Testing: Tolerance and Wii:h-
drawal
Tolerance
Cross-Tolerance
Mechanisms of Tolerance
Constitutional Tolerance
Withdrawal Syndromes
Spontaneous Withdrawal Syndromes
Precipitated Withdrawal Syndromes
Variability in Withdrawal Syndromes
Cravings or Urges
Constraints on Physical Dependence Potential
Testing
Therapeutic or Useful Effects of Dependence-Produc-
ing Drugs
Adverse and Toxic Drug Effects
Identification of Dependence-Producing Drugs
Comparisons Among Drugs
Environmental Determinants of Drug Dependence Includ-
ing Behavioral Conditioning '
Drug Taking as a Learned Behavior
Drug-Associated Stimuli Modulate Drug Seeking
Conditioned Withdrawal Symptoms May Precipitate
Drug Seeking
Relapse to Drug Dependence
Definition of Relapse
Measurement of Relapse
Rates of Relapse
Correlates of Relapse
Pretreatment Correlates of Relapse
Severity of Drug Dependence
Psychiatric Impairment
Demographic Factors
Treatment Correlates of Relapse
Posttreatment Correlates of Relapse
Family Support Factors
Drug Use Among Peers
Involvement in Work and Leisure Activities
Negative Emotional States
Treatment of Drug Dependence
O
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•

Goals of Treatment
Types of Treatment for Drug Dependence
Pharmacologic Treatment of Drug Dependence
Replacement Therapy
Blockade Therapy
Nonspecific Pharmaeotherapy or Symptomatic
Treatment
Pharmacologic Deterrents
Behavioral Treatment Strategies
Relapse Prevention Skills
Leisure Activity Skills
Stress Management Skills
Motivation Enhancing Treatments
Conclusions
References
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[ntroduntion
The present Chapter compares cigarette smoking end nicotine
with other forms of drug dependence and addicting drugs. Other
chapters in this Report describe the behavior of cigarette smoking,
the known biobehavioral mechanisms and modulators of nicotine's
actions, and techniques for achieving abstinence from smoking. As is
evident from this Report, cigarette smoking is most usefully ex-
plained and characterized as a drug dependence process in which
nicotine is the identified drug of dependence. It is also evident that
by either the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of "drug
addiction" that was issued in the 1950s (WHO 1952) or by the
definitions of "drug dependence" issued since the 1960s (WHO 1964,
1969, 1981), nicotine is appropriately catogorized as an addicting or
dependence-producing drug. Its designation as a drug is also consis-
tent with the definitions provided by the WHO (1981) and the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) (1987). Nicotine~lefivering tobacco
preparations (which include all currently marketed tobacco prepara-
tions) could, therefore, be appropriately categorized as addicting or
dependence-producing drugs. In addition to evaluating nicotine with
respect to definitions of dependence-producing drugs, it is also useful
to compare features of tobacco dependence and the pharmacologic
properties of nicotine to other drug addictions and addicting drugs,
respectively. This comparison is the purpose of the present Chapter.
Two of the most widely studied drug addictions provide standards
to which other addictions may be compared, They are the addictions
to {,he opium-derived or related substances ("opioids," e.g., morphine,
heroin, methadone, codeine) and to alcohol. For nearly a century, it
has been widely accepted that use of these substances could lead to
addictive behavior and to adverse effects. Moreover, such conse-
quences of use develop in a sufficient number of persons that there
have been recurrent regulatory efforts to restrict access and
conditions of use. Cocaine and related psychomotor stimulants (e.g.,
amphetamine) provide an additional important standard by which to
judge suspected and known addicting chemicals. These stimulants
have been accepted as standards by which to evaluate the addicting
potential of other stimulants since the 1950s.
It is beyond the scope of the present Chapter to review all aspects
of drug dependence in detail. Rather, this Chapter summarizes
primarily the pharmacologic aspects of drug dependence. In particu-
lar, the Chapter provides information that permits a comparison of
the pharmacologic basis of tobacco dependence, as described in the
other Chapters, with the pharmacologic basis of ether forms of drug
dependence. More extensive reviews of the topics to be discussed
have emerged from various review panels sponsored by the National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (Krasnegor 1978, 1979a,b,c; Thomp-
son and Johanson 1981; Grabowski, Stitzer, Henningfield 1984;
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Sharp 1984), the National Academy of Sciences (Levisen, Gerstein,
Maloff 1983); other reviews have been held under the auspices of
professional scientific societies (Goldberg and Hoffmeister 1973;
Thompson and Unna 1977; Balster and Harris 1982; Taylor and
Taylor 1984; Ssiden and Balster 1985). Other important determi-
nants and consequences of drug dependence are more thoroughly
described elsewhere (Blaine and Julius 1977; Manatt 1983; Tims and
Ludford 1984; Petersen 1978; Bell and Battjes 1985; Richards and
Blevens 1977; Levisen, Gerstein, Maloff 1983; Dupont, Goldstein,
O'Donnell, Brown 1979; Lettieri, Sayers, Pearson 1980; Crowley and
Rhine 1985).
Q
Clinical Characteristics of Drug Dependence
Drug Dependence Def'med
Before the 1960s it was fairly common to invoke factors such as
"criminality," "character deficit," "immorality," and "weakness of
will" in the clinical diagnosis of "drug addiction." In addition, these
factors often included various social connotations. In part, it was
because these attributes were not objective or scientifically based
that t~he WHO in 1964 recommended that the term "addiction" be
replaced with "drug dependence" in an effort to be more precise and
descriptive in definition (WHO 1964, 1981).
According to current conceptualizations, the central and common
element across all forms of drug dependence is that a psychoactive
drug has come to control behavior to an extent that is considered
detrimental to the individual or society (WHO 1981; APA 1987).
Although the precise wording varies, the central concept of drug-
dependence definitions refers to the behavior of the individual who
has come under the control of a psychoactive drug, and this concept
has provided the cornerstone of most definitions of depen-
dence/addiction for at least a century (Berridge 1985) and arguably
for several centuries (Murray et al. 1933; Austin 1979; Levine 1978).
The involvement of a psychoactive drug is the critical feature that
distinguishes drug addictions from other habitual behaviors.
In principle, the term "drug dependance" might be used to
characterize any form of drug ingestion; however, the term is
generally reserved for use when the chemical meets criteria as a
"psychoactive" drug. These criteria are based on drug-induced
changes in brain function; such changes may involve alterations in
mood, feeling, thinking, perception, and other behavior. In this
Chapter the term "drug dependence" or "drug addiction" refers to
self-administration of a psychoactive drug in a manner that demon-
strates that the drug controls or strongly influences behavior. In
other words, the individual is no longer entirely free to use or not use
the substance. Often times, this reduction in the degree to which use
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TABLE L--Diagnostic criteria for psychoactive substance
dependence
A At least three of the following:
(I) subs~nce often taken in larger amountll Or over a loilser PeriOd thtln the p~h
intended
{2) Persisteht desire or one or more uBsu~-'-~l efforts to cut down or control
~ltll~tanCe
use
{s) A great deal of time spent in activities nvce~ry to get the sul~tance {es., theft),
to
take the sut~lance (e~g.. chain smoking}, or to recover from its effe¢~
(41 F~Kluent intoxication or withdrawal symptoms when expected t¢ fulsll major role
obligations at work, Ilcho~], or home (e.g., (Ic~@ llqt go t~ work b~tlle of hahgover.
goes to sch¢¢l or work "high," Int~xlcated whilo taking care of ~wn children}, or when
lubstance ~ is physi~lly hazardous (e.g.. drlv~ when intoxicated)
Important Bovial, occupational, or recmBtiona] ~ctiviti~ givel~ up or reduced
because of
Continued ~u~t~n~e u~e d~pite knowledge of h~vi~g a persistent or recurrent s~cial.
psychol~gl¢~l, or physical problem that is ~u~ed or exacerbated by the use of the
substance (e.g.. ¢o~linuin~ he~in use despite family a;'guments ~bout it.
c~rine-ind~ced
depression, or ulcer made worse by drinking
{71 Marked tolera~: ~eed for nmrkvdly i,cre~ 8mo,nt~ of the 8,b~ta~ (i.¢.. it le~t
a 50 percent increase) to achieve i~toxic~tion or de$[r~i effect, or markedly dimini~h~
effect With continued use of the same ~mount
(Note: The f¢l~owln~ i~ms may ~ot ~pply to ~nn~bis. hall~ino@ns, or PCP)
(s) Characteristic withdrawal ~ympt~ms {~ee specific withdrawal ~ynd~mes under
Psychoactive substance-Induced Organic Mental Di~o~r~)
{9) Sul~tance of~n "t~ken to relieve or Bvo[d withdrawal lymptomu
Some symptoms of the disturbance persistant for ~t l~a~t 1 month, or occurl~nt repeatedly
over longer period of time
sOURCE~ American Psychiatric Ate.~ctation (1987).
is considered "voluntary" is described as "habitual" or "compulsive"
drug use.
Diagnostic Criteria for Drug Dependence
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III-R) of the Ameri-
can Psychiatric Association (APA 1987) provides a useful example of
the objective criteria currently used to define drug dependence. As
stated in DSM III-Revised: "The essential feature of this disorder is a
cluster of cognitive, behavioral, and physiological symptoms that
indicate that the person has impaired control of psychoactive
substance use and continues use of the substance despite adverse
consequences." Specific diagnostic criteria for psychoactive sub-
stance dependence are shown in Table 1.
The APA designated 10 classes of psychoactive substance for
which use may lead to dependence: alcohol; amphetamine or
similarly acting sympathomimeties; cannabis; cocaine; haUucino-
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gens; inhalants; nicotine; opioids; phencyclidine (PCP) or similarly
acting arylcyclohexylamines; and sedatives, hypnotics, or anxiolyt-
ics. The fact that dependence criteria are the same for all classes of
drug use highlights the assumption that dependence processes are
functionally similar across substances with different pharmacologic
profiles.
Features of Drug Dependence
Behavior that leads to drug ingestion, as well as the various
behavioral and physiological sequelae resulting from the ingestion,
are determined by both drug (pharmacologic or agent) and nondrug
(behavioral or environmental) factors which will be discussed in this
Chapter. The nondrug determinants include characteristics of the
individual ("host" characteristics) such as age, genotype, and person-
ality.
Highly Controlled or Compulsive Drug Use
Highly controlled or compulsive drug usa indicates that drug-
seeking and drug-taking behavior is driven by strong, often irresisti-
ble urges. It can persist despite a desire to quit or even repeated
attempts to quit. Compulsive drug use may take precedence over
other important priorities.
The extent to which compulsive bahavigr is apparent varies across
individuals and is most easily detected in extreme cases. For
example, to maintain daily drug intake laryngoctomized patients
may smoke cigarettes through their trachesstemy hole, cocaine
users may take cocaine at the risk of loss of family and job, and
prostitution has been observed to occur in exchange for a variety of
drag~ for which availability was low or price was high.
The drag-soekiag behavior itself ranges from the routine and licit
procurement of cigarettes or alcohol, to the possibly more extensive
behavioral repertoire necessary to obtain prescriptions for certain
drugs, to the highly intricate chains of behavior required to procure
many illicit drugs. Drug-seeking behavior is not determined entirely
by the specific pharmacologic properties of a particular drug,
however. For instance, when alcohol or tobacco has been prohibited,
procurement has at times involved as much risk and involvement as
the procurement of illicit drugs in the 1980s (Austin 1979; Brecher
1972).
A drug may be taken ~to avoid withdrawal symptoms and other
undesirable sequelae of drug abstinence. This factor may contribute
to the level of compulsivity which develops. Addicting drugs often
provide some therapeutic benefit or otherwise useful effect (Chapter
V]); these effects may also contribute to the compulsive nature of
drug use. Whether or not such benefits are considered to be more
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important than the adverse effects of drug taking, this factor is
important because it may have been prominent in initial exposure to
the drug, it may have strengthened the control of the drug over
behavior, and it may constitute a potential cause for relapse.
Physical Dependence and Tolenance
The observation of a withdrawal syndrome that accompanies
abstinence from chronic drug exposure is the primary index of
physical dependence induced by the drug (Martin 1965; Knlant
1978). Drug withdrawal syndromes are behavioral and physiological
sequelae of abstinence from chronic drug administration. Tolerance
refers to the diminished responsiveness to successive administration
of a drag; it may occur independently of physical dependence but is a
frequent concomitant (Kalant 1978). The magnitude of tolerance and
physical dependence is directly related to the frequency and
• magnitude of the drug-dosing regimen; thus, low or infrequent drug
dosing may not produce measurable levels of tolerance or physical
dependence. Tolerance may develop in the absence of physical
dependence; for example, infrequent dose administration may result
in decreased responsiveness even though no measurable withdrawal
reaction accompanies drug abstinence•
Whereas initial drug exposure may have caused marked behavior-
al and physiological disruption, the development of physical depen-
dence implies that a relatively normal appearing behavioral and
physiological functioning requires continued drug administration
and that disrtiption will occur when the drug is withdrawn. For
example, at certain doses, opioids, sedatives (including alcohol), and
nicotine can produce marked intoxication in nontelerant individuals.
As tolerance develops, these same dose levels may produce no readily
observable signs of intoxication, and in the case of opioids and
nicotine only extremely high doses or sudden abstinence are
accompanied by disruption of ongoing behavior.
The development of tolerance to repeated drug exposure and of the
onset of a withdrawal syndrome may be observed following a period
of repeated drug exposure and drug abstinence, respectively, but
these factors do not in themselves define a drug dependence
syndrome requiring intervention to prevent relapse to drug use. It is
possible to establish tolerance and physical dependence by repeated
drug administration even when the animal or human never actually
self-administered the drug. In animals, this is often done in
experimental studies; human patients requiring pain relief may
become tolerant to and physically dependent on opioid analgesics in
hospital settings. Such animals and humans do not necessarily
exhibit drug-seeking behavior when drug administration is terminat-
ed. Another such instance is the fetal opioid syndrome, in which
treatment of the withdrawal reaction might be indicated but no
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drug-seeking behavior would be present for which an intervention
would be needed (Weinberger et al. 1986~. Although not always
essential for the occurrence of addictive drug-seeking behavior,
tolerance and withdrawal phenomena are important in principle
because they can serve to strengthen the control of the drug over
behavior. Specifically, tolerance development can result in increased
drug intake in an attempt to maintain the desired drag effects, and
the onset of a drug withdrawal syndrome may constitute an aversive
state which is alleviated by drug taking.
Harmful Effects
The concept that some sort of harm or disadvantage to the
individual or society is a consequence of drug.use is another element
in most definitions of drug dependence. This concept is complex and
socially determined, however. For example, drag seeking may result
in illicit production and trafficking as currently ascurs,for illicit
drugs (Drug Abuse Policy Office 1984), and had occurred for tobacco
at various times when it was banned (Austin 1979; see also Warner
1982 for a discussion of recent cigarette-smuggling issues). Adminis-
tration of drugs, or abstinence in the physically dependent person,
may directly produce adverse behavioral and psychiatric effects
("psychotoxicity'). Finally, toxicity may also be a direct physiological
effect of the addicting drug. itself (e.g., liver damage caused by
alcohol) or to associated toxins (e.g., transmission of the human
immunodeficiency virus by needle sharing among i.v. drug users, or
carcinogens delivered by tobacco smoke).
These forms of drug-asseciated damage can result in a variety of
societal costs such as health care of drug users (including cigarette
smokers)~ lost productivity of the work force (including tobacco-use-
associated losses in productivity), and criminal justice system
burdens associated with illicit drug use. Such adverse effects of drug
use constitute the "liability" of drug use and may also be factors in
the determination that drug use constituted "drag abuse" (Yanagita
1987). These societal aspects of drug dependence frequently invoke
debates which pit the ~'right" to self-damage against the "right" of
society to protect itself from the direct damage or costs incurred as a
consequence of the individual's behavior. A historical appraisal of
psychoactive substance use reveals that societies have often moved
cautiously to restrict the use of drugs when there was little
assumption of drug-use-associated damage.
Course of Drug Dependence
The chronic nature of drug ingestion in the severely dependent
individual suggests that drug dependence processes themselves may
be long lasting and resistant to termination. In contrast, the direct
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effects of psychoactive drugs are generally limited to a few hours or
days at most. Peak physical withdrawal signs and symptoms from
opioids, sedatives, alcohol, and tobacco appear to last for about i to 2
weeks. However, at least for the opioids, a secondary stage of
withdrawal may last for I year or more', this has been termed
protracted withdrawal (Martin 1965; Jasinski 1981). As discussed in
Chapters Ill and VI, an analogous protracted abstinence syndrome
appears to exist in tobacco dependence and to be of importance for
treatment efforts. Therefore, despite the relatively short-term dura-
tion of the effects of drug administration or withdrawal, the
clinically relevant duration of drug dependence is much longer.
A major implication of post-1960s definitions of drug dependence is
that drug dependence is not an absolute phenomenon, but rather
may vary in degree (Jaffa 1965, 1985; Miller 1979). Often, within an
individual the level of severity increases over time ("progressive"
characteristic). The course may be quite variable, however. For
example, an initially rapidly developed high level of use may be
followed by long-term or transient remissions, while some individu-
als never progress at nll beyond levels of use of a given drug that are
sometimes considered safe and acceptable (Valllant 1970, 1982).
Such low or intermittent levels of drug use are sometimes referred to
as "occasional," "controlled," "recreational" or "social" drug use or
"chipping"; such use may still be problematic because there may be
acute adverse consequences (e.g., auto accidents following drinking),
as well as a' transition to chronic drug use (as is characteristic
followirig occasional tobacco use) end the possibility that any use
involves illicit behavior (e.g., procurement of alcohol and tobacco by
minors or possession of marijuana).
There are differences among drugs in the relative incidence of
occasional users compared to regular daily users who meet criteria
for dependence. For example, it is generally estimated that less than
15 percent of those who consume alcoholic beverages are dependent
(Miller 1979). Analysis of opioid data are more problematic (Zinberg
and Jacobsen 1976); however, observations such as those made of
Vietnam veterans show that opioid chipping is not only n well-
documented phenomenon but may also be common in some social
and environmental settings. Robins and colleagues found (1) that
opioid chipping was a common occurrence among enlisted men in
Vietnam, (2) that 88 percent of heroin-addicted Vietnam veterans
used heroin occasionally upon their return to the United States, and
(3) that most (approximately 90 percent) were able to avoid readdic-
tion (Robins et el. 1977; Robins and Helzer 1975; Robins, Helzer,
Davis 1975; Robins, Davis, Goodwin 1974; Robins, Davis, Nurco 1974;
see also Zinberg 1972, 1980). In contrast, however, chipping appears
relatively rare among tobacco users: the 1985 National Health
Interview Survey showed that 10.6 percent of current smokers
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smoke 5 or fewer cigarettes/day (unpublished data; Office on
Smoking and Health; see also Russell 1976 and US DHHS 1987).
Polydrug Dependence and Multiple Psychiatric Diagnosis
Another feature of drug dependence is the common use of multiple
substances, including tobacco, by dependent individuals. In fact, the
most consistent feature of such multiple drug use is the high rate of
co-occurrence of tobacco dependence along with dependence on
opioids, alcohol, stimulants, and even gambling (Taylor and Taylor
1984). In addition, drugs used by individuals may sometimes vary
end be interchanged as price and availability vary (e.g., cocaine is
preferred by many but individuals may use opioids, or even
sedatives, when cocaine is unavailable) (Kliner and Piokens 1982).
Several drugs may also be taken simultaneously; for irlstance, heavy
consumption of nicotine, alcohol, and marijuana is common. Finally,
most surveys indicate that use of drugs such as cocaine, alcohol,
epioids, and marijuana is accompanied (and usually preceded) by use
of nicotine (US DHHS 1987).
Tobacco use concurrent with other drug dependencies is so
prevalent that it is not generally considered to be of diagnostic
significance or considered as a basis of multiple drug dependence
diagnosis. Recently, the possible interactive nature of co<lependen.
cies to nicotine and other drugs has been given increosing attention
in drug treatment programs (Taylor and Taylor 1984; Koslowski et
al. 1984). These data are discussed later in this Chapter, as well as
the issue of whether nicotine serves as a "gateway" to the use of
illicit drugs.
Also of clinical significance is the concurrence of drug dependence
and some other p6ychiatrie disorder. This phenomenon is termed
multiple or dual diagnosis (Meyer 1986; McLellan, Woody, O'Brian
1979; Allen and Frances 1986; Rounsaville and Kleber 1986; Jaffe
and Cicaulo 1986). In general, dependence on epioids, alcohol,
cocaine, and nicotine is often associated with elevated rates and
levels of antisocial tendencies end extraversion, but such trends are
not generally regarded as multiple diagnoses (for a review of several
forms of multiple diagnosis, see Taylor and Taylor 1984). The
designation of multiple diagnosis is reserved for the concurrent
appearance of a clinically significant psychiatric disorder and drug
dependence; the most common of such disorders would appear to be
depression, anxiety, and antisocial personality (McLellan, Woody,
O'Brien 1979; Rounsaville et al. 1982; Woody, MeLellan, O'Brien
1984).
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Spontaneous Remission
It is characteristic of drug dependence that some persons discon-
tinue use of the drug while not engaged in a formal treatment
program (i.e., "on their own"/ although they may have participated
in a treatment program at some earlier point in time (Stall and
Biernacki 1986). Spontaneous remission refers to intentional and
unintentional cessation of drug use, variously referred to as "natural
recovery," "maturing out," "burning out," or "self-quitting," but
most frequently in current literature as "spontaneous remission."
Such quitting is sometimes reported to be due to "will power" or
"just deciding to quit." However, follow-up studies have revealed
that significant environmental events are often associated with such
quitting (for example, Vaillant 1970, 1982). Such data have suggested
to some that the terms such as "self-quitting," "self-help," and
"spontaneous remission" are misnomers (Fisher 1986; Fisher et al.
1988); nonetheless, because the term spontaneous remission is extant
in the scientific literature, it will be used here. This Section provides
a brief summary of available information comparing alcohol, opioids
and tobacco with regard to their rates of spontaneous remission and
of factors associated with remission from drug use.
In studies of spontaneous remission, a minimum criterion for
abstinence, such as 1 year, is often imposed. Although the recorded
history of drug dependence acknowledges that some people can
achieve abstinence with~)ut benefit of formal intervention programs,
there was little systematic study of spontaneous remission until the
1970s. Major motivations for the current interest in this pbenome-
non are to determine if the so-called spontaneous remitters differ in
behavioral or physiological parameters from other drug-dependent
persons, to identify factors which may be systematically applied in
treatment settings, and to better understand the process of drug
dependence itself.
The percentage of such spontaneous remitters reported in any
given study appears to vary more as a function of population and
study variables than as a function of drug class. For instance, data
averaged across 10 studies show that approximately 30 percent of
opioid-dependent persons spontaneously remit (Angiin, Brecht,
Bonett 1986) although estimates of remission rates vary from 2
percent to 65 percent (Harrington and Cox 1979; Winick 1962). On
the other hand, approximately 90 percent of.people who have quit
smoking report that they quit without the aid of formal treatment
programs or smoking cessation devices (Fiore et ai., in press; see
discussion of related issues in Fisher et al. 1988).
Deriving precise quantitative comparisons of rates of spontaneous
remission across the various drug dependencies is problematic due to
the differing criteria used to identify those who are spontaneous
remitters. For example, in tobacco surveys, rates of spontaneous
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remission are often estimated by retrospective self-reports from a
sample of former smokers, whereas surveys of opioid and alcohol
users generally include only those who were dependent enough to be
involved in formal treatment programs at some time.
The factors which are associated with spontaneous remission
appear to be similar across dependencies on alcohol, opioids, and
tobacco (Stall and Biernaeki 1986). Table 2 is a summary of findings
which have been reported on factors related to spontaneous remis-
sion. As shown in the Table, influences such as health problems
associated with use of the drug and social pressures are frequent
presipitants of spontaneous remission among persons who were
dependent on alcohol, opioids, or tobacco. Similarly, spontaneous
remitters have often learned to better manage their drug "cravings"
and to provide contingent reinforcement for quitting to themselves,
and may even undergo significant lifestyle changes (Stall and
Biernacki 1986).
These data regarding spontaneous remission support the conclu-
sion, discussed earlier, that it is somewhat misleading to infer that
spontaneous remitters are truly spontaneous or that they were not
"really dependent" as is sometimes assumed (Fisher 1986; Fisher et
a]. 1988; US DHHS 1982). Rather, it seems more plausible that
spontaneous remitters ere largely thee who have either learned to
deliver effeotive treatments to themselves or for whom environmen-
tal circumstances have fortuitously changed in such a way as to
provide a therapeutic situation (Fisher 1986; Stall and Biernacki
1986; VaiUant 1982, 1970). In addition, persons most likely to quit
use of tobacco and opioids without benefit of formal intervention do
tend to have shorter histories of use and/or be at lower levels of
dependence (US DHHS 1987). Such issues, relating specifically to
cigarette smoking, have been reviewed in considerable detail in a
previous report of the Surgeon General (US DHHS 1982).
Chemical Detection Measures
Although drug dependence is not reliably diagnosed simply on the
basis of amount of drug intake (Crowley and Rhine 1985; Jaffe 1985),
it can be useful to determine whether or not a person has ingested a
significant amount of a drug. For example, as is discussed later in
this Chapter, many treatment programs require objective verifica.
tion of drug-frse patient status.
A potentially useful adjunct for objectively assessing exposure to
drugs is to test for the presence of the drug in biological specimens
(Walsh and Yohay 1987; Hawks and Chiang 1986). For instance,
blood, urine, saliva, expired air, and other biological samples can be
assayed for residual drug or drug-specific markers (e.g., metabolites).
Such testing aids in determining that presumed drug-feinted effects
were nnt actually symptoms of some other organic or mental
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TABLE 2.---Studies Concerning spontaneous remission behavior, by drug and commonly mentioned
factors important to remission
Factor Alcohol
Tobacco Heroin
Health probIems Cahalan (1970~. Goodwin et al.
Hecaht 11978). ~ederson and I~fe~ Biernaekl (19~3D
[1971), Knupfer [l~e/2~. Lemere (1953),
{1978)
Saunders et al. ¢1979). Stall 11983).
Tuchfeld 1198D
Caha[an 11970k Edwards et aL (1977).
Goodwln et al. (1971k Knupfer
(1972). Stall 11983). Thorpe and
Pert.~ (1~). Tuchfeld (1~1}.
Vailhant (1983)
Edwards et al. (1977)* Goodwin et al
(197D. Knupfer 11972). Saunders et
aL (1979). Stall (1~. Tuchfetd
(l~lk Vaillant (19~3}
Cahalan (1970k Saenders et al.
q1979]. Stall (19~1~. Thorpe and
Ptrr~ (1%9}. Tuchfeld II~l)
Kn,pfer (1972}* Stall (1~ Tuchfeld
(19~11
to
Soc~I san~ion~
Significant ethe~
Financial ¢¢oblems
$~gnif'mant accidents
MBnagen~nt of ceavings
Stall (l~)
Perrl et al. {19771
DiClemente and Prochaslm (1979k
Hecht {1978}. 1~ and Lefcoe
{1976}. Perriet al. (19"/7)
Biernacki ~19831. Schasre q 19661
Vai]tant c1964. 1970J
Biern~ki tlS~3k Waldor~ and
Bieraacki {l~l. Vaillant 41~¢1.
1~70~
It¢~ht 0978) Bierna~ki ;i~3)
Perrl et al. (19771
Iker et el. 119"/7). I~nte and
Prochad~ (19791. Heeht (19781.
Pecle~ and Lefe~e (1976]. I[~¢d et
a[. 119771
Bieraaekl ( I~3~. Jorquez I I~3,.
Walde.cf and B~ernacki I19~II
Biernacki q9~3~. Jorqu~ 11983~

TABLE 2.---Continued
oo
Factor
Alcohol
Tobacco
Heroin
Poslti.~. ~in~oroer@t.o~
for quitting
Internal psychic
changel motlvaflon
Change in lifestyle
Edwards et aL 11977). Stall 11993~
Edwards et aL i1977L Knupfer
(1972t. Saunders et aL {1979L
Tuch feld (198D
Edwards et al. (1977L Knupfer
q1972~ Saunders et al. (1979k
Tuchfeld (ig~ll
B~er et al I1977L DiCleraente and
pr~chaska (19791. Pederson and
Lefcae 119761
Baer el al. i1977L Hecht t1978P
t~Clemente aM Prochaska ~19791,
Hecht (19781
Blernacki q 198,3 t
fhe~nacki tlS83L Schasre ~19¢~3L
Waldorf and Bierr~acki 119811
Biernackl ~19~1, Jorquez 119831,
Schasre t196G). Waldorf and
BiPrnacki q19~l)
SOURC~ Modified from Slat] and Biemaeki t1981;t
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disorder. One problem with such verification is that the drug level
measured reflects recency as well as amount of drug use and thus
may lead to either underestimation or overestimation of the typical
level of drug use. Furthermore, absolute level of use does not
necessarily determine whether use is pathological or detrimental.
Another problem is that biochemical drug tests vary widely in both
their specificity (correct drug identification) and sensitivity (mini-
mum amount of drug detected) (see Grabowski and Lasagna 1987
and Waish and Yohay 1987 for general reviews of such issues; and
Benowitz 1983 and Muranaka et al. 1983 for a tebacco-related
review; also see Chapter If).
Presently, verification of drug dependence is based largely on the
behavioral factors as described below. The most useful application of
testing for drug levels in the body remains the verification of
compliance with treatment regimens in which drug abstinence is the
goal. These and other issues regarding the methodologies and
applications of chemical detection measures have been reviewed by a
committee of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and
Therapeutics (1988).
Patterns In the Development of Drug Dependence
When the relationships among drug dependencies have been
studied in major epidemiological surveys (e.g., NIDA's National
Household Survey (NHS) (US DHHS 1987)), two findings consistent-
ly emerge: persons who use dependence-producing drugs are often
cigarette smokers, and cigarette smoking precedes and may be
predictive of illicit drug use. Some of the data which have led to
these conclusions are summarized in this Section.
Current Use of Cigarettes and Other Drugs
The association of current use of one drug with current use of
other drugs has been studied extensively. One such study is the NHS
conducted by NIDA (US DHHS 1987). The Eighth NHS, conducted in
1985, involved personal interviews with 8,038 persons 12 years of age
and older, representative of the household population of the conti-
nental United States. Questions were asked about the age of
respondents when they first tried a cigarette and age when they first
started smoking daily. This distinction may be important when
comparing cigarette use with the use of other drugs. Persons who do
not make the transition from trying cigarettes to daily use may be
less likely to use other drugs than those who do make this transition.
A similar format was used with alcohol (i.e., age at which respondent
first tried alcohol, not including childhood sips, and age of first using
alcohol once a month or more). Questions about age at the onset of
other drug use were limited to age at first use. In the NHS studies,
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TABLE 3.--Current use of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine
among "current" cigarette smokers and
nonsmokers by age group (percentages)
"Currci~" cigarette use
Age group,
current drug use No Yes
Alcohol
12-17 23.5 742
{~2,~ 647 82,6
26-34 62.5 81.0
~35 52,5 68.6
Marijuana
{2-17 ~8 47.3
18-25 137 35.4
26~4 10,6 260
~35 L7 3.5
12-17 04 88
18-25 3,9 139
~SS 0.4 0.6
NOTE: Current ume Im i~¥ u~e reported in zhe 30 days prior to the interview,
~URCE~ National HouJehold Sur~e¥ on Drug F.bume. 1~ (in prel~Ta~io~
current drug use is defined as any use of the drug during the 30 days
preceding the interview.
Based on data from the 1985 NHS on Drug Abuse, Table 3 shows
associations among use of various psychoactive substances. As shown
in the table, rates of current use (i.e., during the past 30 days) of
marijuana, alcohol, and cocaine are much higher among "current"
cigarette smokers than among others. For example, among 12- to 17-
year-olds, almost three-fourths of "current" smokers were current
alcohol users compared with less than one-fourth of the youths who
were not '~current" smokers. Approximately 47 percent of the
"current" cigarette smokers report being current marijuana users
compared with 5.8 percent of the youths who were not "current"
smokers.
Differences as large as these shown in Table 8 represent very
strong correlations between use of cigarettes and use of other drugs.
The strength of the correlation between use of cigarettes and use of
other drugs, licit and illicit, suggests the potential importance of
directing prevention efforts to the early gateway drugs: cigarettes
and alcohol (Kandel and Yamaguchi 1985; Clayton 1986; Clayton
and Bitter 1985).
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Epidemiological Studies of the Progression of Drug Use
Tobacco use has been found to play a pivotal role in the
development of other drug dependencies. The classic descriptive
model for initiation patterns of drug use was developed by Kandel
(1975), who first divided drugs into two groups of availability: licit
and illicit. Kandel concluded that virtually all persons who ever used
illicit drugs such as marijuana and cocaine had previously used licit
drugs such as cigarettes and alcohol. Kanders developmental stages
model is based on the assumption that there are relatively invariant
patterns of onset of use. The stages are:
(1) No Use of Any Drugs
(2) Use of Beer or Wine
(3) Use of Cigarettes and/or Hard Liquor
(4) Use of Marijuana
(5) Use of Other Illicit Drugs
Although Kandel's model addresses the initiation or onset of drug
use, it does not account for patterns of early use (e.g., frequencY of
occasions or quantity per occasion). Nonetheless, there is general
agreement that the model accurately characterizes the drug initia-
tion process in the United States as one that begins with use of licit
drugs (tobacco and alcohol) and, if progression occurs, involves
greater use of these substances (Kandol, Marguilies, Davies 1978;
Huba, Wingard, Bentler 1981; O'Donnell and Clayton 1982). This
pattern has also been obseri, ed in France and Israel (Adler and
Kandel 1981).
In a longitudinal study of the progression of drug use, Yamaguchi
and Handel (1984a) gathered baseline data in 1971 from subjects in
the 10th and llth grade in New York State. This representative
sample was followed up in 1981 when the average age was 24.7 years.
The order of onset identified by Yamaguchi and Kandel (1984a) was
alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, illicit use of psychoactive or prescrip-
tive drugs, and other illicit drugs. Among persons who had used both
alcohol and cigarettes 10 times or more, alcohol use preceded
cigarette use in 70 percent of the cases for males and 55 percent of
the cases for females. Among persons who had used cigarettes and
marijuana 10 or more times, 67 percent of the males and 72 percent
Of the females reported using cigarettes first.
Using a sophisticated statistical analysis, Yamaguchi and Kandel
(1984a) derived several additional conclusions including the follow-
ing:
(1) For men, the pattern of progression was one in which the use
of alcohol preceded marijuana; alcohol and marijuana preced-
ed other illicit drugs; and alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana
preceded the illicit use of other psychoactive drugs. Eighty-
seven percent of the men were characterized by this pattern.
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(2) For women, the pattern of progression was one in which either
alcohol or cigarettes preceded marijuana; alcohol, cigarettes,
and marijuana preceded other illicit drugs; and alcohol and
either cigarettes or marijuana preceded the illicit use of
psychoactive drugs. Eighty-six percent of women shared this
pattern.
Tobacco Use as n Predictor of Other Drug Use
In an analysis of nationwide data from the high school senior class
of 1980, Clayton and Ritter (1985) found that alcohol drinking and
cigarette smoking were the most powerful predictors of the extent of
marijuana use for both males and females. Cigarette use was a
stronger predictor of marijuana use among females, Moreover, this
role of cigarette smoking was especially pronounced when it had
been initiated at age 17 or earlier. Similarly, data from the
longitudinal study by Yamaguchi and Kandel (1984a,b) revealed
that, among persons with some history of alcohol use, cigarette
smoking was a powerful predictor of mari~uana use.
Consistent with the above described findings regarding cigarette
smoking, smokeless tobacco use has also been shown to be a predictor
of other drug use, including cigarette smoking (Ary, Lichtenstein,
Severson 1987). More then 3000 male adolescents were interviewed
twice, at an approximately 9-month interval, to determine their
rates and levels of use of various psychoactive substances. The main
findings were that (1) users of smokeless tobacco were significantly
more likely to use cigarettes, marijuana, or alcohol than nonusers;
(2) users of smokeless tobacco were significantly more likely to take
up use of cigarettes, marijuana, or alcohol than nonusers; (3)
smokeless tobacco users who were using these other substances st
the time of the first interview showed substantially greater increases
in levels of use of these other substances over the 6-month interval
than did nonusers of smokeless tobacco; and (4) 71 percent of thas~
who had been using smokeless tobacco at the first interview
remained users at the second interview.
Cigarette smoking is also a predictor of cocaine use. White and
colleagues (US DHHS 1987) began with a large sample of 12-, 15-,
end 18-year-old adolescents in New Jersey and reinterviewed them
at 3-year intervals. As reported in NIDA's Triennial Report to
Congress (US DHHS 1987), White and coworkers found that there
were several predictors of cocaine use in 18.ycar~ids who had been
interviewed 3 years earlier: prior use of cigarettes, alcohol, and
marijuana. Furthermore, at the time of the second interview (of the
18.year-olds), the ceca/ne users used cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana,
and other drugs more often than did nonusers of cocaine.
Although alcohol use frequently precedes tobacco use, the use of
alcohol only progresses to dependence (alcoholism in about 10 to 15
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percent of all drinkers (Miller 1979). Use of cigarettes, by contrast,
almost inevitably escalates to a level characterized as dependent use
(Russell 1976; US DHHS 1987). This is consistent with the observa-
tion that although some use of alcohol may precede tobacco use, it is
prior use of tobacco and not alcohol that emerges in the above-cited
studies as the stronger predictor of illict drug use.
The 1985 High School Senior Survey by NIDA (US DHHS 1987)
showed that the first dependence-producing drug tried among users
of alcohol and illicit drugs was often tobacco. For example, among all
respondents 12 years of age and older, first use of tobacco and alcohol
occurred in the same year for 18 percent of the sample; cigarettes
were used first by 62 percent of the sample, and alcohol was used
first by 20 percent. Among those who tried both cigarettes and
marijuana, 14 percent first tried these drugs in the same year, 75
percent tried cigarettes first, and 11 percent tried marijuana first.
Among those who tried both cigarettes and cocaine, 95 percent used
cigarettes first, 3 percent used them first the same year, and only 2
percent used cocaine before cigarettes. These observations show that
when cigarettes and another of these dependence-producing drugs
have been used by the same individual, cigarette use usually is the
first of the two drugs used. One difference between cigarette smoking
an~i the use of other common substances (e.g., milk, sugar, or aspirin)
that may also precede the use of illicit drugs is that nicotine itself is
a drug that produces the tolerance, physical dependence, and drug-
seeking behavior that meet the criteria of a drug-dependence
syndrome.'
Frequency of Use of Cigarettes and Other Drugs
Measures of frequency of drug use also yield important findings.
The data presented in Table 4 show the percentage of persons in
three groups (never smoked, tried cigarettes but never used them
daily, used cigarettes on a daily basis) who report use of alcohol,
marijuana, and cocaine. The criterion for alcohol usa is 5 or more
consecutive drinks during at least 1 day in the past 30 days; criteria
for marijuana and cocaine use involve previous usa of these drugs
more than 10 times during the respondent's lifetime. These criteria
were used to eliminate those who merely tried the drug on a few
occasions ("experimental" use). The percentages are presented
separately for four age groups.
The main finding shown in Table 4 is that those who become daily
cigarette smokers are considerably more likely than others to report
use of these other drugs, regardless of age group. For example,
among the 12- to 17-year-olds, less than 0.5 percent of the never
smokers report using marijuana more than 10 times compared with
3.3 percent of those who tried but never used cigarettes daily and
22.7 percent of those who have used cigarettes daily. These data
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TABLE 4.--Use of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine among
"never" cigarette smokers, "occasional"
cigarette smokers, and daily cigarette smokers,
by age group (percentages)
Cigarette use pat~rn
Age group. Never Tried. never Smoked
drug use smoked used daily daffy
Atcoho] '
12-17
g6~4
~35
Marijuana~
12-17
26-34
~35
Cocaine~
12-17
26-34
~35
2,7 15.9 38.6
12.3 31,9 49.6
9.8 23.0 41.3
5.6 9.2 20.1
0.2 3,3 22,7
3.3 8.3 37.4
2~ 12.9 30.3
0.6 Lg 3.8
0.2 0.8 6.4
1.3 4,5 14,2
0~ 0~ 1.9
'Drank five or more drinks in s row on at ]east I day in p~t 30 day~
JU/.~ maruuana more thsa IU time~.
• U~d cocaine more th~n I0 timeG
SOURCE: Natlonal Household Survey on Drug AbuSe, 1985¸ (in preparstion,
extend those presented in Table 3: associations exist between
cigarette smoking and other drug use when considering "current"
use (any use in the past 30 days) (Table 3) or measures of frequency
of drug use (Table 4). Similarly, a study of alcohol drinking and
cigarette smoking among student in grades 7 to 12 in New York
State showed a positive correlation between the frequency of
consuming alcoholic beverages and both the likelihood of smoking
cigarettes and daily cigarette consumption (Welte and Barnes 1987).
Initiation of Drug Use
Initiation of drug use often occurs through social contacts,
independent of the pharmacologic actions of the drug. Drug seeking
is then sustained and modulated through combined social and
pharmacologic factors. With the possible exception of the stimulants
such as cocaine and amphetamine, initial exposure to many psy-
choactive drugs (including opioids, alcohol, and nicotine) is often
associated with aversive consequences (Haertsen, Hooks, Ross 1981;
Hsertzen, Kochsr, Miyasato 1983). For example, opioids may pro-
duce nausea; alcohol and nicotine not only produce nausea but may
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produce initially aversive sensory effects in some preparations (e.g.,
high-concentration alcoholic beverages may taste "bad" and ciga-
rette smoke may be "harsh"). As a consequence, lengthy periods of
occassional ("experimental" or "sseial") drug use frequently precede
the development of daily drug use.
These observations imply that nondrug factors are important in
the initiation and maintenance of drug intake until dependence
upon the drug itself develops (Crowley and Rhine 1985; Vaillant
1970, 1983; Marlatt and Baer 1988; Brown and Mills 1987). As
discussed elsewhere in this Chapter, such factors can also modulate
level of drug use as well as influence the frequency of quitting
attempts and their likelihood of success (see also Chapters IV and
VII in this volume and earlier Reports of the Surgeon General). The
specific factors that have been identified and accepted as prominent
in helping to establish initial exposure to drugs (Crowley and Rhine
1985) include: availability of the drug, cost of the drug, social
acceptability of the drug, and other environmental sources of
pressure to use drugs.
The acceptability of the drug preparation itself can be manipulat-
ed by controlling the dose of the drug and increasing its sensory
palatability. For example, the utility of some of the newer smokeless
tobacco formulations as "starter" products for youth is held to be due
in part to the lower concentrations of nicotine, formulations that
facilitate use (e.g., snuff in pouches), as well as nontobacco flavorings
(e.g., mint or cinnamon) ~Henningfield and Nemeth-Coslett 1988; US
DHHS 1986, 1987; Connolly et al. 1986). Such strategies of "starter
product" manipulation are analogous to those used to initiate drug
seeking in laboratory animals, described later in this Chapter. Such
product acceptability factors, combined with the ready availability,
peer pressure to use, perceptions that the products were safe, and
marketing strategies aimed at increasing the social desirability of
smokeless tobacco use, appear to have been largely responsible for
the marked rise in use of smokeless tobacco by youth' in the 1970s
(Ary, Lichtenstein, Seversen 1987; Christen and Glover 1987; Con-
nelly et al. 1986; Connolly, Blum, Richards 1987; Olover et al. 1986;
Ouggenheimer et al. 1987; JAMA 1987; Kozlowski et al. 1982; Marty
et al. 1986; Negin 1985; Silvls and Perry 1987; US DHHS 1979).
Vulnerability to Drug Dependence: Individual and
Environmental Factors
Despite the complexity of the issues, it is useful to identify factors
that differentiate individuals who appear more susceptible to drug
dependence. These factors may collectively be termed vulnerability
factors. Vulnerability factors are diverse, varying among individuals
and within individuals at different times (Radoucc-Thomas et ai.1980;
Marlatt and Baer 1988; Brown and Mills 1987). Vulnerability may
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arise from genetic variation or from environmental sources includ-
ing learning (Jones and Battjes 1985). Vulnerability factors are such
that they do not necessarily compel a persen to use a drug; in fact,
they might be undetecLed in a person never exposed to a dependence-
producing drug. Nonetheless, the presence of several vulnerability
factors can increase the likelihood of the development of drug
dependence, including cigarette smoking.
The concept of a predisposition to drug dependence arose from the
observation that not all people are equally prone to becoming
behaviorally dependent upon drugs (Mann et el, 1985; Redouee-
Thomas et al. 1980; Jaffe 1985; M,N. Hesselbrock 1986; V.M.
Hesselbreck 1986; Mirin, Weiss, Michael 1986). The multiple sources
of differences in predisposition or vulnerability to drug dependence
are net mutually exclusive..One is a genetic predisposition, shared by
family members by virtue of their common biological heritage.
Another is an experiential predisposition, shared by family members
by virtue of their shared life experiences. For instance, children with
parents who are dependent on drugs are at elevated risk of becoming
dependent (Hawkins, Lisbner, Cata]ano 1986; Begletier et al, 1984;
Kumpfer 1987). For tobacco, the magnitude of the effect is greater
when both parents smoke than when only erie parent smokes
(Borland and Rudolf 1975; Green 1979). Other typos of vulnerability
factors are physiologic (e.g., pain, sleep deprivation) and psychiatric
(e.g., anxiety, depression) conditions that may constitute undesirable
states for which relief is sotlght by use of a drug (Crowley and Rhine
1985). Finally, as discussed earlier in this Chapter, a variety of
nonpharmaeologie factors are important in the initiation and
development of drug dependence (e.g., price, availability); such
factors may be considered vulnerability factor8 in their own right.
A recent area under active investigation is the identification of
specific vulnerability factors in youth (Brown and Mills 1987). For
example, cigarette smoking has long been associated with juvenile
behavior problems (Armstrong-Jones 1927; Welte and Barnes 1987;
Kumpfer 1987); more recently, scientific data have confirmed the
statistical association of increased rates of cigarette smoking among
juveniles with a conduct disorder diagnosis (i.e., adolescent deviance)
(Sutker 1984). A related observation is that children with conduct
disorders are at elevated risk of using opioids, cocaine, alcohol,
tobacco, and other psychoactive drugs (Baumrind 1985). In fact,
Kellam, Ensminger, and Simon (1980) found that certain indices of
mental health identified in first graders were highly predictive of
the use of various psychoactive drugs (including alcohol, opioids,
marijuana, and nicotine) when the children were restudied in their
teenage years. These studies do not directly address the degree to
which juvenile behavior problems are causes or consequences of drug
use. It is plausible that either drug use or other behavior problems
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can exacerbate each other, possibly alternately contributing to a
gradual escalation of drug use, behavior problems, or both. These
observations suggest that it is especially important to prevent
initiation of drug use among individuals who appear to be at
increased risk (vulnerability) to developing drug dependencies.
Pharmacolog{c Determinants of Drug Dependence
As discussed earlier in this Chapter and-in Chapter I, it is the
involvement of a dependence-producing drug that sets drug addic-
tions apart from the so-called "addictions" to other substances (e.g.,
food) and activities (e.g., gambling). There are scientific methods to
determine if use of a substance involves a dependence-producing
drug. These methods, how they are applied to study drugs such as
morphine, cocaine, and nicotine, and some of the main findings from
such work are reviewed in this Section.
A wide range of drugs can be used to modify behavior (e.g., as used
in psychiatric treatment); however, the term drug dependence is
generally reserved for dependencies which involve drugs that can'
sustain repetitive drug self-administtyation by virtue of their tran-
sient effects on mood, feeling, and behavior. Drugs that exert such
effects via alteration of functioning of the brain or central nervous
system (CNS) are generally termed "psychoactive" (WHO 1981).
When the psychoaetivity of a given drug is frequently pleasant, it is
referred to as a "euphoriant," as '~ceinforeing," or as an "abusable"
drug, although these terms are not precisely interchangeable. This
"framework is consistent with that described by Lewin (1931);
namely, that these drugs are chemicals which are "taken for the sole
purpose of producing for a certain time a feeling of contentment,
ease, and comfort." Drugs which produce such effects effectively
control the behavior of a wide range of species, including humans.
How Drugs Control Behavior
Drugs cause addiction by controlling the behavior of users; that is,
addicting dl:ugs come to influence behavior leading to their own
ingestion. The behavioral and pharmacologic mechanisms of such
control have been reviewed elsewhere (Thompson 1984) and will only
be briefly summarized in this Section. Behavior, including drug
taking, is biologically mediated by the electrical anfl chemical
stimuli which arise from the nervous system. These stimuli may
originate within the body and brain of the individual, but they may
also arise from environmental events and be detected by sensory
processes such as vision and audition. Dependence-producing drugs
control behavior by activating, inhibiting, or mimicking the existing
chemical circuits of the nervous system. Dependence-producing
drugs are those that readily exert control over behavior by virtue of
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their stimulus propertie~. It is useful to distinguish among four kinds
of stimulus effects produced by dependence-preducing drugs.
(1) Drugs can produce interoceptive or discriminative effects that a
person or animal can distinguish from the nondrug state. These
effects may set the occasion for the occurrence of particular
behaviors. For example, the taste of alcohol or the smell of tobacco
smoke can set the occasion for social interactions, and the "priming"
effects of a single dose of a drug can lead to subsequent drug seeking
and relapse in animals or humans with a history of use (Griffiths,
Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Colpaert 1986).
(2) Drugs may serve as positive reinforcers or rewards which
directly strengthen behavior leading to their administration. The
reinforcing efficacy may be related to effects termed either "stimu-
lating," "relaxing," "pleasant," "useful," "therapeutic," or "euphori-
ant" or may be related to providing relief of withdrawal symptoms or
other undesirable states.
(3) Drug administration or abstinence can also function as
"punishers" or aversive stimuli. For example, high dose levels of
most psychoactive drugs serve as an upper boundary level of intake;
analogously, decreasing drug levels can also function as aversive
stimuli contributing to the strength of drug taking as a means to
avoid such aversive effects (Downs and Woods 1974; Goldberg et al.
1971; Henningfield and Goldberg 1983b; Kozlowski and Herman
1984). Aversive stimuli may function as negative reinforcers by
strengthening behavior that removes the stimuli (Skinner 1953).
Thus, drug withdrawal symptoms are sometimes 'referred to as
negative reinforcers that increase drug seeking.
(4) Drug administration, or abstinence following a period of
chronic administration, can serve as unconditioned stimuli, in which
case they may directly elicit various responses, e.g., vomiting at high-
dose levels of opioid administration or during opioid withdrawal,
light-headedness produced by rapid smoking, and a strong urge to
use a drug. As will be discussed later in this Chapter, repetition of
such phenomena can lead to their elicitation by drug-esseciated
stimuli, e.g., the sight or smell of drug-associated stimuli (O'Brien,
Ehrman, Ternes 1986; Wikler 1965; Wikler and Pescor 1967).
All of these processes may occur whether or not the person has
correctly identified their source, i.e., is "aware" of how the drug led
to the behavior (Fisher 1986). Furthermore, the biologic power and
generality of these processes is evidenced by the findings that they
also occur in animals (Young and Herling 1986; Spealman and
Goldberg 1978; Johanson and Schuster 1981).
Drugs differ widely in their potential to control behavior via such
mechanisms. Depondence-preducing drugs usually readily control
behavior in all of the above capacities. Quantification of such
characteristics is the cornerstone of testing for the likelihood that
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use of a drug will lead to addiction. Observers in the ]gth and early
20tb centuries (e.g., Lowin 1931) had correctly determined that it
was the psychological (behavioral) effects (sometimes termed "psych-
ic" or "mental" effects) of substances that led to their habitual use.
Practical methods for evaluating the behavior-modifying properties
of drugs did not emerge until the behavioral sciences themselves had
become sufficiently sophisticated in the 1930s and 1940s. Prior to
this time, dependence-producing drugs were identified on the basis of
retrospective observations of their effects. Since the 1940s, however,
drug testing has grown increasingly reliable at identifying Csereen-
ing") drugs for their potential to produce dependence prior to
observations of dependence outside the laboratory. In fact, highly
reliable information can now be obtained on the basis of animal
testing alone (Martin 1971; Thompson and Unna 1977; Brady and
Lukas 1984; Bozarth 1987b).
Methods for evaluating the behavior-modifying properties of drugs
were largely developed beginning in the 1940s in studies with
morphine-like opioids, and cocaine-like stimulants, and have only
recently been systematically used to evaluate nicotine. The methods
will be described in the remainder of this Section, along with a
comparison between the behavioral-pharmacologic actions of nic-
otine and those of other drugs.
Dependence Potential Testing: Psychoactive, Reinforcing,
and Rete, ted Effects
To scientifically determine if a chemical is dependence
producing, a series of sclentifie tests may be done. These testsare
jointly termed dependence potential tests, In this Chapter, Depen-
dence Potential Testing refers to laboratory tests which measure the
behavioral and physiological responses of animals and humans to
drug administration and to termination of chronic drug administra-
tion, Taken together, the results of these tests can he used to
objectively predict whether a drug lends itself to self-administration
by persons who are exposed. The focus of the present Section is on
how the methods are applied to evaluate the potential of drugs to
control behavior and to produce transient alterations in mood or
feeling that are predictive of self-administration. Such effects have
essentially defined the dependence-produelng drugs and have set
them apart from other medielnals and food; drugs with such effects
are sometimes termed "psychotropic" or "behaviorally active" but
most commonly as "psychoactive" (President's Advisory Commission
1963; WHO 1981).
Not all psychoactive drugs lead to dependence; many drugs used to
treat behavioral and psychiatric disorders are considered to have
minimal dependence potential (for example, tricyclic antidepres-
sants) or may actually produce effects that substantially impair long-
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term compliance with therapeutic regimens (for example, major
tranquilizers). How dependance-producing drugs are distinguished
from other psychoactive drugs will be described in this Section. The
next Section will discuss methods used to measure test drugs for
their potential to produce tolerance and physical dependence,
In revle~ and proceedings from various expert committees, the
procedures to be described have been referred to as testing for
"Abuse Liability," "Psychic Dependence," "Abuse Potential," "Ad-
diction Liability," "Behavioral Dependence," and "Dependence Po-
tential" (Brady and Lukas 1984; Goldberg and Hoffmeister 1973;
Thompson and Unna 1977; Selden and Balster 1985; Thompson and
Johanson 1981; Bozarth 1987b; WHO 1981). Whereas there are
differences in focus that are evident when these methods are
compared, the general goals and strategies are consistent. These will
be briefly described in this Section. Detailed descriptions of these
methods have been provided by an expert subcommittee of the
Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence (Brady and Lukas 1984)
and in numerous conferences involving world experts on such
procedures (Goldberg and Hoffmeister 1973; Thompson and Unna
1977; Selden and Balstsr 1985; Thompson and gohanson 1981;
Bozarth 1987b), The results of the methods are also considered in the
process of reviewing the national and international regulatory status
of various drugs either known or suspected to be addicting by the
FDA, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the WHO (WHO
1981, 1987).
Effects of Drugs on Mood and Feeling (Psychoactivity)
Dependence-preducing drugs can change the way a person thinks,
feels and behaves. The effects may be very subtle (e.g., feelings of
relaxation), or they may be profound (e.g., intoxication and impaired
cognitive abilities). The scientific assessment of the effects of drugs
on mood and feeling (also referred to as "psychoactive," "psychologi-
cal," "interocept, ive," "subjective," "psychic," or "self-reported"
effects) was essentially an extension of the methods developed to
assess physiological actions of drugs. By the late 1940s, several drug
dependance researchers had concluded that physical dependence
potential testing was of limited value in predicting whether drug-
seeking behavior would develop following exposure to a given drug
(|sbell 1948; fsbel! and Vogel 1948). These researchers used observa-
tional techniques to measure intereeeptive drug effects. Later, the
reliability and general applicability of the techniques were substan-
tially enhanced by incorporation of the methods developed by Rao
(1952) for assessing changes in subjective state and the methods
developed by Beeeher (1959) for the measurement of pain and
analgesia in humans.
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These methods contributed to the development of what are
generally considered the first objective questionnaires for assessing
addictive drug effects by Fraser and his colleagues (Fraser and lsbell
1960; Fraser et al. 1961). A prominent feature of the questionnaires
was a series of scales to evaluate the ability to feel or discriminate a
drug effect, to rate the liking of the drug effect, and to identify the
drug that was given from a llst of widely used and abused drugs.
The next major advance in the quantification of subjective drug
effects was the development of the Addiction Research Center
Inventory (ARCI) by Haertzen and his colleagues (Haertzen, Hill,
Belleville 1963; Haertsen 1966, 1974; Haertsen and Hooks 1969;
Haertzen and Hiokey 1987). The ARCI contained scales that were
empirically derived to be sensitive to the effects of specific drugs and
drug classes (e.g., sedatives, stimulants, hallueinogens). One of the
most useful scales was developed to measure the effects of morphine
and benzedrine (a prototypical opioid and stimulant, respectively);
this scale was subsequently referred to as the "Morphine Benzedrine
Group" or "MBG" or "Euphoriant" scale, because morphine-like and
benzedrine-like drugs increased the scale scores while simultaneous-
ly producing feelings often reported as pleasurable (ttaertzen, Hill,
Belleville 1963; Haertzen 1974). Scores on the MBG scale are also
elevated by most other addicting drugs (Jasinskt 1977; Jasinski,
Johnson, Henningfield 1984; Henningfield 1984). More recently, the
highly specific drug discrimination testing procedures (described
below) have been added to the human drug dependence potential
testing armamentarium (Chait, Uhlenhuth, Johanson 1984, 1966).
To the extent to which certain common features are identified
using tests such as the above, they may be categorized together, e.g.,
as dependence-producing or addicting drugs. This is referred to as
determining "pharmacologic" equivalence. Conversely, to the extent
to which these same drugs differ in certain respects, they may also
be subcategorized as, for instance, analgesics, sedatives, or stimu-
lants. Such categorization must be viewed with caution, however,
because overemphasis on any particular feature of a drug can be
misleading. For instance, morphine, alcohol, and amphetamine can
all produce behavioral and physiologic effects that are stimulant.like
as well as effects that are sedative-like (Gilman etal. 1986; Dews and
Wenger 1977). Nicotine has been viewed as both a stimulant
("excitant") (Lewln 1931) and a sedative (Armstrong-Jones 1927).
Most commonly nicotine is now categorized as more stimulant.like
than sedative-like, but with an appreciation of its diverse range of
potential effects, which depend upon the does given and the measure
used (Gilman et al. 1986).
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Methods and Results
Assessment of the psychoactivity of drugs in humans essentially
entails giving either drug or placebo to volunteers and then asking
them to report the nature of effects produced. Replicability and
objectivity are increased by using standardized questionnaires such
as those described above (e.g., "liking" scales, ARCI). In practice,
several procedural variations are used to further enhance the
reliability and validity of the results. The dose of the drug is varied
to assess the nature of the dose-effect relationships; for all depen-
denee-predueing drugs, ratings of dose strength or the percentage of
accurate drug identifications is directly related to the dose given.
Subjects with histories of use of a variety of drugs can be asked to
report which, if any, of those drugs the test drug feels like; such
testing isuseful.to determine the extent to which the test drug
produces any effects on mood and feeling that resemble those of
previously studied drugs. Subjects with histories of use of a variety of
drugs and who report "liking" the effects of a range of drugs can be
used to help assess the dependence potential of the test drug by
rating how desirable they find it to be.
Incorporation of several of these methods can add considerably to
the strength of conclusions which can be drawn. For example,
morphine-like opioids, pentobarbital-like barbiturates, amphet-
amine.like stimulants (including cocaine), alcohol, and nicotine all
produce rapidly oasetting and offsetting discriminative effects; the
magnitude and duration of these effects are directly related to dose;
all elevate scores on the liking and MBG scales; the effects of all are
directly (though complexly) related to pharmacokinetic factors such
as rate of systemic absorption; all produce discriminative effects that
correspond to certain physiological changes; all produce effects that
can be accurately identified by an observer; all are identified as
known addicting drugs by subjects with a history of use of such
drugs; pretreatment with antagonists may block these effects (only
opioids and nicotine have been systematically studied on this
dimension). Such orderly and consistent kinds of effects across drugs
confirm that they are appropriately categorized together as addict-
ing drugs.
The selectivity and sensitivity of such procedures are illustrated in
Figure 1. As shown in the Figure, when persons with multiple drug
dependence histories were given drugs under double-blind condi-
tions, they rated placebo (unconnected data point on each graph) and
the nonaddicting zomepirac at a minimal level of "liking" (Jasiaski,
Johnson, Henningfield 1984). As a direct function of dose, however,
the known addicting drugs were rated with greater liking scores. As
also illustrated in Figure 1, nicotine produced comparable dose
related increases in drug liking scores as did amphetamine, mor-
phine, and pentobarbital. Studies with human volunteers have also
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MORPHINE
(SC)
d-AMPHETAMINE NICOTINE
(SO) (IV)
BUPRENORPHINE PENTAZOCINE
(SL) (IM)
ZY9.THC
(PC)
c
PENTOBARBITOL CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE ZOMEPIRAO
(PO) (PO) (POi
Drug dose (rag)
FIGURE L--Liking scale scores of the single-dose
questionnaire
NOTE: Sample sire ranges from 6 (pentobarbltsl aM chLordip~epoxidel to 13 (4-amphetsminel The high
dose
each drug fexeept zomepJra¢) prodti¢~l signiflcetnt Ip<0.05) lnore~ in accr~ abcve placebo. Data =re
peak
r~pcnse, which ~eur~-,d from approximately I minute {nicotineJ to ~5 ho~r# (bupre~orphineL Morphine
and
~mepira¢ dJta ar® from the same group of ,ubject8 u pentob~rbital ~nd ehlordil~epoxide data The P +
T point
on the po n ta,'~ine graph is the ~ors given m 40 mg pentt~lne vombined with 60 mg trlpolennamine
The N
point on the ~-9.THC graph is the score, from the ~mv lubje~ts, ob~i n~J af~t smoking I mar ~j~ana
¢igmrette
contsinlrlg 10 mg (1 percent by we[ghtl A-9-THC.
SOURCE: Jasi~ekL Johnson, Henningfleld {1984~,
shown that most of the known addicting drugs (including nicotine)
produced certain changes in mood and feeling that resemble those
produced by morphine or benzedrine enough to significantly elevate
the MBG scale scores (Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Hen-
ningfield, Johnson, Jasinski 1987).
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The validity of self-reported drug effects as objective indices of
dependence potential has been tested using similar rating scales by
observers who are blind to the condition. On the basis of their
observations of subject behavior, observers report similar dose-
related increases in scores on the strength of the drug effect and/or
the level of drug liking for alcohol (Henningfield, Chait, Griffiths
1983), pentebarbital (Martin, Thompson, Fraser 1974; Henningfield,
Chair, Griffiths 1983), morphine and heroin (Martin and Fraser
1961), amphetamine (Jasinski and Nutt 1972; Jasinski, Nutt, Griffith
1974), and a variety of other dependence-producing drugs (Jasinski
1977). A similar correspondence between subject and observer
ratings was obtained when subjects were given either i.e. nicotine
injections or research cigarettes which varied in nicotine dose
(Henningfield, Miyasato, Jasinski 1985).
Effects on mood and feeling also correspond to a variety of
physiological effects. Some of these physiological changes vary by
drug class. For example, pupil diameter increases appear to eorre.
spend to early nicotine-induced subjective effects and to amphet-
amine and cocaine administration (Henningfield et al. 1983; Jaffa
1985), whereas pupil diameter decreases when morphine is given
(Jasiaski 1977). Other physiological effects show a greater degree of
similarity across drug classes. For example, studies of ethanol
administration in human subjects revealed that paroxysmal bursts
of electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha activity paralleled subjective
reports of euphoria during the ascending limb of the plasma ethanol
curve (Lukas et al. 1986b,o), which also paralleled increases in
plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) levels (Lukas and
Mendelson, in press). Similar effects were observed following mari-
juana smoking (Lukas et al. 1985, 1986a) and acute i.e. nicotine
administration (Lukas and Jasinski 1983). In turn, similar changes
In EEG alpha activity have been shown to correspond with subject-
reported pleasurable states which can occur in the absence of drug
administration (Lindsley 1952; Brown 1970; Wallace 1970; Matejcak
1982).
Drug Discrimination Testing
Drug discrimination testing in animals is assumed to provide
information analogous to the above-described procedures for assess-
ing the effects of drugs on mood and feeling in humans (Ooldberg,
Spoalman, Shannon 1981). Drug discrimination testing can provide
two general kinds of information. First, the ability of dependence-
producing drugs to contrel behavior by serving as positive reinforc-
ers or punishess is associated with whether they produce interecap-
tive effects which are discriminated (or "felt"). Second, drugs can be
compared with each other to determine the degree to which they are
identified as similar or different. The methods used for drug
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discrimination testing in animals were not systematized and widely
utilized until the late 1960s and early 1970s (Overton 1971; Overton
and Batta 1977; Schuster and Balster 1977; J~irbe and Swedberg
1982).
Extension of animal discrimination study results to humans is
limited by species differences and by-other unique human factors
that may contribute to the dependence potential of a drug. Nonethe-
less, animal studies are an important advance because they permit
relatively inexpensive and rapid testing of a broad range of
compounds and allow evaluations to be made without the possible
confounding social and cultural factors. Animal studies also provide
a means of gauging the biological generality of the drug discrimina-
tion data (e.g., to determine if unusual genetic characteristics are
necessary for certain drug effects).
Methods and Results
These procedures and variations have been described in greater
detail elsewhere (Overton and Baita 1977; Colpaert 1986; Roseorans
and Meltzer 1981. In brief, the basic method is to train animals to
emit one response when given one drug and to emit another response
when given either no drug (i.e., placebo) or a different drug. The
animals are usually trained with either food reinforcement or the
withholding of electrical shock for "correct" responses. When the
animals have been trained to a level of 80 or 90 percent correct
responses, they are. said to be discriminating drug from placebo.
Then they are ready for the testing of different doses of the training
drug or different drugs. This testing is often accomplished without
the use of food or shock contingencies, so that it can be determined
which response the animal will make when given the test drug.
A check on the validity is to give lower doses of the training drug;
the lower the dose, the less the animal should respond on the drug
lever and the more on the placebo lever, A similar effect is obtained
when an antagonist is given before testing with the training drug; as
the dose of the antagonist is increased, the ability of the animal to
discriminate the training drug decreases and the animal emits more
no-drug responses. These effects have been demonstrated with both
the opioids and nicotine (Overton 1971; Colpaert 1986; Rosecrans and
Meltzer 1981; Chapter Ill); i.e., decreasing the dose of the opioid or
nicotine or pretreating with an opioid or nicotine antagonist can
produce decreased drug lever responding.
The specificity of the stimulus produced by a drug can also be
evaluated by testing drugs. The degree to which the animals make
the "drug" responses or "mistake" the test drug for the training drug
is termed "generalization" and indicates the level of similarity of
effects between the drugs (Colpaert and Rosecrans 1978). Morphine
analogs, amphetamine analogs, pentebarbital analogs, and nicotine
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analogs produce substantial amounts of generalization to morphine,
amphetamine, pentobarbital, and nicotine, respectively. The fact
that there is less generalization across drug classes is an index of the
specificity of the drug stimulus. The cross-drug classifications which
have resulted from animal discrimination studies are generally
consistent with human data (Goldberg, Spealman, Shannon 1981).
For instance, if an animal has been trained to press one lever when
given amphetamine and another lever when given pentebarbital, it
tends to press the amphetamine lever more often than the pentobar-
bital lever following a nicotine injection (Scheeter 1961). This finding
is consistent with that obtained in a study in which human
volunteers frequently identified nicotine injections as amphetamine
or cocaine at higher nicotine dose levels but not at the lower levels
and only rarely identified the nicotine injections as sedatives
(Henningfield, Miyesato, Jasinski 1985).
A more recent development is the extention of the systematic drug
discrimination procedures to use with human subjects. Similar
methods are used, and initial findings with drugs such as nicotine
and amphetamine are comparable to the results from animal studies
(Kallman et el. 1982; Chait, Uhlanhuth, Johansen 1984). Specifically
human volunteers can readily learn to differentially respond to the
presence or absence of these drugs, and the effects are dose related.
Drug SelfAdrninistration
When given the mechanical means to do so, animals self-adminis-
ter addicting drugs (including nicotine) much like humans; that is,
drugs that function as rewards or reinforcers for humans also tend to
function as reinforcers for animals. The conceptualization of depen-
dence-producing drugs as reinforcers provided the framework for a
highly predictive test strategy, the self-administration study, where-
by animals or humans are given the opportunity to take drugs under
laboratory conditions (Thompson and Schuster 1968). This research
strategy permitted scientific analysis of the single common link
across all forms of drug dependence, namely that the addictive
behavior (for whatever reason) is motivated or controlled by the
drug's reinforcing (rewarding) properties (Goldberg and Hoffmeister
1973; Thompson and Unna 1977; Selden and Balster 1985). Stimuli
that can maintain and strengthen behavior leading to their presen-
tation are termed "positive reinforcers" regardless of their hypothe-
sized mechanism of action (e.g., alleviation of discomfort or produc-
tion of pleasure) (Skinner 1953; Thompson and Schuster 1968). The
reinforcing power or efficacy of a drug can be enhanced by a variety
of conditions (e.g., deprivation of the drug which the organism had
been repeatedly given, pain, food deprivation, social approval
contingent on drug taking, and perceived useful effects) (Thompson
and Schuster 1968; Thompson and Johanson 1981). Following
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repeated exposure to a drug, a biologically mediated "drive" state
can be established that did not preexist as do the drives for food,
water, or sex.
The potential of a drug to serve as a reinforcer can be directly
assessed and quantified in laboratory studies of drug self-administra-
tion. Essentially, a human or animal subject is given access to the
drug; then his or her propensity to take the drug (i.e., to "self-
administer" the drug) can be measured. The self-administration test
provides the opportunity to rigorously study the main distinguishing
feature of drug dependence, that is, drug-seeking behavior. As is the
case in drug discrimination testing, animal date help to determine
the generality of the biological basis of the addictive process for a
given drug; for example, such data help to reveal if the process is
unique to humans because of social, genetic, or other factors. If the
drug is taken under a variety of prescribed conditions (summarized
later in this Section), then it is said to be functioning as a
"reinforcer" or "reward."
The validity and generality of self-administration test results were
demonstrated by the observations that (1) there was a remarkable
degree of consistency between patterns of drug self-administration
among laboratory animals and observations concerning human drug
dependence (Jasinski 1977; Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfleld 1980),
(2) drugs that serve as reinforcers in self-administration studies also
tend to be "liked" when given to humans, and (3) there was a high
correlation among drugs which produced morphine-like euphoriant
effects and those which were self-administered by animals (Griffiths
and Balster 1979; Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; see related
data in Schuster, Fisehman, Johansen 1981).
Initiation of Drug Self-Administration
As discussed earlier in this Chapter, drugs cannot produce
dependence without initial exposure to them. Initiation of drug .use
in humans is often mediated by social and other environmental
sources of pressure. To determine if a drug will reinforce behavior in
animals similarly requires some means of providing exposure to the
drug. Strategies for establishing drug taking in animals are analo-
gous in key respects to how humans may become dependent upon
drugs. Four general categories of methods are most commonly used.
The methods are not mutually exclusive and are sometimes used in
combination.
The first method of establishing drug self-administration in
animals is to provide initial doses ("priming" or "free sampling") and
then to gradually increase the dose ("graduation"). For instance, l.v.
drug infusions may be given to animals on a chronic basis while the
animals are also given the opportunities to take the drug. This
provides art opportunity to determine if simple exposure to the drug
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is sufficient to result in drug seeking. A minor variation is to
gradually increase the dose of each injection over time. This general
procedure has been used to establish i.e. self.administration of d"
amphetamine, morphine, alcohol, pentobarbitai, cocaine, nicotine,
and many other drugs (Deneau and Inoki 1967; Deneau, Yanagita,
Seevexs 1969; Yanagita 1977; Woods, Ikomi, Winger 1971; Brady and
Lukas 1984; Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Melsch 1987;
Henningfield and Goldberg 1983a).
A second method of establishing drug self-administration is to
substitute a new drug for one which was already serving as a
reinforcer. Humans do this as a function of drug availability; they
sometimes learn to like drugs which had not been taken previously
and may even come to prefer the new drug. Using this method with
animals provides a means of exposure to a new drug and may be
useful in comparing one drug with another. In animal studies,
cocaine is the most commonly used starter drug, because in animals
(as in humans) cocaine seems to be a source of reinforcement and/or
pleasure under an extremely broad range of conditions compared
with most other drugs. Variations on this procedure have been used
to evaluate the likelihood of self-administration of a wide range of
drugs incldding amphetamine, barbiturates, alcohol, opioids, and
nicotine (Griffiths et al. 1976, 1981; Woods 1980; Dencau 1977;
Yanagita 1977; Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfleld 1980; Brady and
Lukas 1994; Me isch 1987; Chapter III).
A third method is to induce the initial use of the test drug by
prearranged environmental sources of "pressure" or "motivation."
Induction of drug taking can be accomplished with very explicit
contingencies. For example, presentation of food or withholding of
electric shock can be made contingent on drug consumption (Mello
and Mendelson 1971a,b). However, such direct contingencies often
result in minimal response output (i.e., drug consumption) to obtain
the positive reinforcer or to avoid the electric shock, and drug self-
administration may not persist after the contingencies are removed
(Mello 1973). For example, even when physical dependence on
alcohol had developed in rhesus monkeys, the animals often rejected
the drug when self-administration was not required to meet the
contingency (Mello and Mendelson 1971a). Thus, these procedures
have not been extensively used to generate animal models of human
drug taking (Griffiths, Bigslow, Henningfield 1980).
The fourth procedure for establishing drug self-administration
seems somewhat more analogous to how drug dependence may
sometimes develop in humans outside the laboratory, and has been
widely used to study drug self-administration in the laboratory; this
method is termed the "adjunctive behavior" or "schedule-induced
behavior" strategy (Falk 1983). The method involves a less direct
means of inducing drug intake; in fact, the drug does not need to be
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taken to obtain the reinforcer or to avoid the punisher. Rather, the
animal is simply given the opportunity to take the drug; at the same
time, the experimenter arranges conditions that are highly likely to
engage the animal in cycles of work and breaking from work. For
example, the animal may have to press a lever to obtain food. The
result is that when the animal is unable to work on the food schedule
(e.g,, during the brief "timeouts" or "waiting" periods), the animal
tends to take the drug. Eventually, the drug itself might come to
function as a reinforcer in its own right, even in the absence of the
environmental pressures that first led to its use. The dose level of the
drug is then increased gradually over time. Variations on this
procedure have been used to establish self-administration of alcohol
(Falk, Samson, Winger 1972; Freed, Carpenter, Hyrnowitz 1970;
Mcisch 1975), pentobarbital (Meisch, Kliner, HenniI£gfield 1981),
nicotine (Singer, Wallace, Hall 1982), and a variety of other drugs
(Brady and Lukas 1984; Meisch and Carroll 1981; Meisch 1987).
Although many environmental conditions are present outside the
laboratory that appear to function as do adjunctive schedules in the
establishment of human drug dependence (e.g., boredom in occupa-
tional settings), there have been few experimental studies of
adjunctive drug taking by humans (Falk 1983). One such study by
Cherek (1982) showed that volunteers took more puffs per cigarette
when they were given monetary reinforcers at regular intervals: the
volunteers had to press a button to obtain the reinforcer, but their
behavior did not decrease the time theyhad to wait for each
• reinforcer to become available.
Evaluation of Reinforcing Effects
Conclusive demonstration that the effects of the drug itself were
the cause of the drug-seeking behavior is equivalent to showing that
the drug itself is functioning as a positive reinforcer. The basic
procedures were developed in animal studies (Pickens and Thompson
1968; Deneau 1977) and have been reviewed in detail elsewhere
(Johanson and Schuster 1981; Balster and Harris 1982; Fischman
and Schuster 1978; Yanagite 1980; Brady and Lukas 1984).
The most fundamental procedure is to verify that drug self-
administration occurs under conditions in which it is "optional" or
"voluntary"; that is, explicit contingencies for drug taking (e.g., to
obtain food, to avoid shock, or to obtain preferred liquid) are not
required. It is also necessary to ensure that the drug taking is not
simply maintained by the characteristics of the vehicle (e.g., water or
a flavored solution into which alcohol is placed, or the tobacco smoke
in which nicotine is delivered to smokers).
If the drug is serving as a reinforcing stimulus, it should be
capable of maintaining controlled behavior. For example, a complex
chain of drug seeking (i~e., "procurement") might be required to
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obtain the drug. An extension of this principle is to gradually
increase the amount of work (i.e., the "cost") that must be expended
to achieve drug delivery to determine how much the subject works
("pays") for a given drug or drug dose. For example, the ratio of lever
press responses per drug injection is gradually increased in the
"Progressive Ratio" procedure to determine the maximum ratio
("breaking point") that will be sustained (Yanagita 1977; Griffiths,
Brady, Snell 1978a).
If the drug is serving as a reinforcer, then stimuli associated with
drug administration should also come to serve as reinforcers
("conditioned reinforcers"). Of all dependenco-preducing drugs, the
importance of this factor may be most pronounced with regard to
nicotine because the various effects of nicotine may be associated
with tobacco smoke and other stimuli hundreds of times each day
over the course of many years of smoking. A fundamental observa-
tion is that even neutral-appearing stimuli can function as reinforc-
ers in their own right when they are associated ("paired") with
previously established reinforcers such as food, water, sex, or drugs
(Skinner 1953; Thompson and Schuster 1968). For example, the taste
and smell of alcohol are initially highly aversive to animals (Mello
1973), but in one study, the smell of alcohol was established as a
conditioned positive reinforcer for animals: the smell of alcohol was
enough to reinstate drug-seeking behavior even when the alcohol
was not physically available (Meisch 1977). Seemingly arbitrary
stimuli such as lights and tones can come to serve as reinforcers-
after association with i.e. self-administered drugs including cocaine-
like stimulants, opioids, barbiturates, and nicotine (Goldbel~g 1970;
Goldberg, Kelleher, Morse 1975; Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield
1980; Goldberg et el. 1983).
The basic methods described above are also used in human drug
self-administration studies, although with various procedural adap-
tations which have been described in detail elsewhere (Nathan,
O'Brien, Lowenstein 1971; Cohen, Liebson, Faillace 1971; Mello,
MeNamee, Mendelsen 1968; Meno 1972; Meyer and Mirin 1979;
Bigelow, Griffiths, Liebson 1975; Henningfield, Lukas, Bigelow
1986). As in the animal drug self-administration studies, the human
volunteers must emit a measurable response that may lead to drug
ingestion: for example, riding an exercise bicycle (Griffiths, Bigolow,
Lisbsen 1979; Jones and Prada 1975) or pressing a button on a
portable work station (Mello and Mendeison 1978). Such work
requirements then become established as part of the chain of drug-
seeking behavior. They have an advantage over non-laboratory drug-
seeking behavior in that the amount of work can be carefully
measured. Such data provide quantitative estimates of the time
and/or work expended for drugs (see examples in the following
studies and reviews: Johansen and Uhlenhuth 1978; Bigelow,
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Griffiths, Liebson 1975; Mclio and Mendelson 1978; Fischman and
Schuster 1982; Henningfield and Goldberg 1983b; Jasinski, Johnson,
Henningfield 1984).
Results from Drug Self-Administration Studies
Most categories of drugs which have been found to cause wide-
spread drug dependence in the nonlaboratory setting have been
tested with animals and humans in laboratory settings. Results of
these studies have been reviewed in detail elsewhere (Griffiths,
Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Brady and Lukas 1984; Henningfield,
Lukas, Bigelow 1986). Several categories of drugs have been found to
be self-administered by humans and animals in the laboratory
settings, to meet criteria as positive reinforcers, and to exhibit
orderly relations as a function of drug dose, drug pretreatment, and
other factors known to affect the intake of dependence-producing
drugs. These include alcohol, morphine, pentobarbital, amphet-
amine, cocaine, and nicotine in the forms of cigarettes and i.v.
injection.
Self-administration studies with animals are much more extensive
and have also been reviewed in detail elsewhere (Johanson and
Schuster 1981; Balster and Harris 1982; Fischman and Schuster
1978; Yanagite 1980; Brady and Lukas 1984; Young and Herliug
1986}. In brief, drug self-administration studies in animals in the
1960s showed that a range of drugs including opioids, amphetamines,
barbiturates, certain, organic solvents, alcohol, cocaine, and nicotine
were self-administered (Weeks 1962; Thompson and Schuster 1964;
Deneau, Yanagita, Ssevers 1969; Deneau and Inokl 1967). All of
these drugs were found to maintain powerful chains of drug-seeking
behavior, even when insufficient drug was taken to produce a
clinically significant degree of physical dependence (Goldberg,
Morse, Goldberg 1976). Drugs that did not serve as reinforcers in
these studies included caffeine, lysergie acid diethylamide (LSD), and
the major tranquilizer chlorpromazine.
The speed of drug delivery can affect its reinforcing efficacy (Kate,
Wakasa, Yanagita 1987). Thus, the inhaled form of cocaine ("crack")
is considered more reinforcing and dependence producing than other
forms of cocaine delivery, with oral cocaine apparently among the
least reinforcing of the commonly used rout~ of delivery (see also
US DHHS 1987). Analogously, nicotine taken by the slow release
oral preparation (nicotine polacrilex gum) appears to be much less
reinforcing than nicotine taken by quicker release oral preparations
(e.g., chewing tobacco) or cigarette smoke (Chapters IV and VII).
Research findings have continued to extend the early observations
(Deneau, Yanagita, Seevers 1969) that the results with animals were
remarkably consistent with observations regarding human drug
dependence. For example, initial exposure of humans to drugs such
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as opioids and stimulants led to addictive patterns of use, whereas
chlorpremazine rarely did, and LSD infrequently did (Jasinski 1977;
Griffiths et el. 1980). Earlier studies had suggested that alcohol,
caffeine, and nicotine were not reinforcers in animals (Mello '1973;
Russell 1979; Griffiths et el. 1988). However, by the early 1970s for
alcohol (Meisch and Thompson 1971; Meisch 1977, 1982} and 1981 for
nicotine (Goldberg, Spealman, Goldberg 1981), it had been confirmed
that these drugs could also serve as effective reinforcers for
nonhumaas. The relatively little research done to assess the
dependence potential of caffeine has not as conclusively demon-
strated that it serves as a reinforcer in animals (Griffiths and
Woodsen 1988b).
Drug Dose as a Determinant of Drug Intake
Drug dose per administration is a major factor that affects self-
administration of dependence-producing drugs. The resultant
dose-response relationships are orderly, and the data have been
reviewed extensively (Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Jchan-
sen and Schuster 1981; Young and Herling 1986). In brief, the
relationship between the dose size available and the number of doses
taken is often referred to as an inverted U-shaped function because
of the shape of a graph that results when the number of injections (y-
axis) is plotted as a function of dose (maxis) across a wide range of
doses to which a subject is given access.
Over the range of doses which appear to be functioning as effective
reinforcers, changes in dose are accompanied by compensatory
changes in number taken such that total drug intake is somewhat
stabilized. It appears that a determinant of such compensatory
changes in drug self-adminlstration is the apparent upper and lower
"boundaries" or "thresholds" for aversive effects that might occur
when either too much drug is obtained or when insufficient drug is
obtained to prevent withdrawal responses (Kozlowski and Herman
1984). It should be noted, however, that in most studies, compensato-
ry changes in drug intake as dose level is changed are almost never
perfect and are frequently quite crude (Griffiths, Bigalow, Hennlng-
field 1980). (See Yokel and Pickens 1974 for an example of a study in
which drug intake was unusually stable across a range of amphet-
amine doses.) Thus, the usual observation related to drug dose is that
as dose is increased, the rate of drug taking decreases somewhat but
more total drug is obtained. This relationship is observed in studies
of i.v. nicotine in animals (Ooldberg et al. 1983) and humans
(Henningfield, Miyasate, Jasinskl 1988) and when tobacco smoke
dose is manipulated in humans (Chapter IV).
A misinterpretation of dose-rosponse relationships by tobacco
researchers, largely in the 1970s, led to the controversy that marked
the so-called "titration studies" of tobacco intake. Specifically, it was
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assumed that if a drug was serving as a reinforcer, then compensa-
tion for changes in dose level should have been more effective than
they appeared to be. Hence, some questioned whether nicotine was
serving as a reinforcer because dose-response relationships in
nicotine studies appeared very crude (Russell 1979). The question
that arose was not whether cigarette smokers showed compensatory
changes in responses to changes in dose level; they did. In fact, the
nicotine dose-response relationship has probably been better studied
and established, over a wider range of conditions and techniques of
study, than have dose-response relationships with any other class of
drugs which are salf-administerod by humans (Gritz 1980; Griffiths,
Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Henningfield 1984). The question was,
rather, why.compensatory changes in cigarette smoke intake often
appear to be inadequate to maintain stable levels of nicotine intake.
There are two main problems in interpreting these data, however.
The first is that in the vast majority of human cigarette smoking
studies, attempts to manipulate the dose delivered were not well
controlled and the measures used to assess the possible effects of
intended dose manipulations were not necessarily sensitive to
compensatory changes (see Chapter IV and Henningfield 1984b). The
second problem is that there is simply no basis for determining what
degree of compensation should occur, because the degree of compen-
sation observed in animal studies varies widely by drug and test
condition, and because there are relatively few human data involv-
ing drugs other than nicotine to which such a comparison might be
made (Griffiths, Bigalow, Hennin~ield 1980; Henningfield, Lukas,
Bigelow 1986).
Cost of the Drug as a Determinant of Intake
Cost of the drug is a determinant of intake in both laboratory and
non-laboratory settings. Evaluation of this phenomenon is objective-
ly carried out in the laboratory in which the amount of work
required to obtain the drug can be varied. From an economic
perspective, this is similar to varying the price of the commodity
which is available for purchase. Such manipulations with both
humans and animals have shown that cost (e.g., amount of work
required) affects drug intake: usually, the lower the cost, the greater
the intake. In some studies manipulations of both cost and drug dose
have been carried out (e.g., Moroton et al. 1977; Lemaire and Meisch
1986). These studies show that when the dose of the drug is reduced,
drug-seeking behavior may increase at first and thereby maintain
fairly stable intake, but if dose continues to decrease (or cost
continues to increase), the behavior will not be maintained (Lemaire
and Meish 1985). Early studies with cocaine, for example, showed
that if access to cocaine was limited, either by time or work ("cost")
requirements, cocaine self-administration could be maintained indef-
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initely without serious apparent adverse effects (Pickens and
Thompson 1968). However, if access to cocaine was nearly unlimited
and the cost requirement low, monkeys might self-administer toxic
dose levels (Deneau, Yanagita, Seevers 1989).
Use of tobacco in humans and intravenous nicotine self-adminis-
tration by animals appear to be similarly affected by manipulations
of cost as is use of other dependence-producing drugs. Specifically, as
the amount of work required to obtain nicotine injections in animals
is increased, the number of injections is decreased (Goldberg and
Henningfield, in press). Analogously, human cigarette smokers and
other drug users can also be motivated with both positive and
negative cost incentives (Bigelow et el. 1981; McCaul et al. 1984;
Stltzer et el. 1982, 1986; Stitzer and Bigelow 1985). These laboratory
findings with animals and humans correspond to the effects of
changes in the price of cigarettes on ciga÷ette sales (Lewit, Coats,
Grossman 1981; Lewit and Coate 1982; Warner ]986a), Such
relationships are also observed with other dependence-producing
drugs including opioids, sedatives, alcohol, and amphetamines
(Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Yanagita 1977).
Place Conditioning Studies
Ingestion of dependence-producing drugs can lead to both positive
and negative associations with the setting in which the drag effects
were experienced. Whether the effects of a particular drug are
positive or negative depends on the dose that was given and other
factors that are discussed in this Section.
A scientific methodology for studying such phenomena is the
"place.conditioning" or "place-preference.aversion" procedure (Bo-
zarth 1987a). This procedure provides an indirect means of assessing
the potential of a drug to establish drug seeking in the absence of
any explicit contingencies on the behavior. These procedures deter-
mine if exposure to a drug in a given environmental setting
enhances the preference of the animal for that setting. Conversely,
the procedure can be used to determine if exposure to a drug in a
specific environmental setting establishes an aversion of the animal
to that setting.
Because of their convenient size and the general validity of their
use as models for behavioral dependence potential testing, rats most
commonly are used as subjects in place-conditioning studies. The
general experimental procedure is to place the animal in one
environment (e.g., one chamber of a multiple-chamber test appara-
tus) when a drug is given and in another environment (e.g., distinct
in color, shape, or odor) when a placebo is given. Then, the animal is
given access to both environments (i.e., placed in a connecting
passage or placed in one chamber or the other) to determine which
environment (chamber) it prefers (van der Kooy 1987; Bozarth
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1987a), and, conversely, which environment it avoids. Studies have
shown that conditioned preferences can be established for morphine
(Bardo and Neisewander 1986), cocaine (Spyraki, Fibiger, Phillips
1982), alcohol (Stewart and Grupp 1985), and nicotine (Fudala, Teoh,
Iwamoto 1985; Fudala and Iwamoto 1987; Chapter IV).
The relevance of place conditioning as a factor that incrcases the
control of nicotine over behavior in human cigarette smokers may
exceed that of other dependence-producing drugs. This possibility
follows from the fact that the cigarette smoker has the ability to
readily produce a critical environmental cue associated with smok-
ing (cigarette smoke itself). Therefore, it should be possible for the
smoker to "enhance" the reinforcing efficacy of a range of environ-
ments (lwamoto et al. 1987); the highly discriminating sight, smell,
and taste stimuli produced by tobacco smoke may effectively 'permit
the smoker to establish a "prcferrcd environment." This could
contribute to the dependence potential of nicotine. The observation
is also consistent with the finding that removal of the tobacco smoke-
associated stimuli is accompanied by decreased pleasure and/or
smoking (Grltz 1977; Goldfarb st al. 1976; Rose et al. 1987). As early
as 1899 it was observed, for example, "that the pleasure derived from
a pipe or cigar is abolished for many persons if the smoke is not seen,
as when it is smoked in the dark" (Cushny 1899).
Constraints on Dependence Potential Testing
The main constraint on procedures used to evaluate the depen-
dence potential of drugs is that they may fail to identify drugs which
only lead to dependence under unusual or uniquely human circum-
stances. For example, LSD does not serve as an effective reinforcer
for animals, and although its effects may be liked by humans under
certain conditions, it also produce feelings of fear, paranoia, and
other adverse effects (Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Haert-
zen 1966, 1974). Caffeine provides an example of another kind of
drug which is sometimes used in the face of adverse effects, even
though the overwhelming majority of users do not use it in ways that
are considered to be of significant adverse health effect (Gilbert 1976;
Greden 1981). The antieholinergic drug, atropine, is another that is
representative of a class of drugs that occasionally are used in
nontherapeutic settings but do not appear to possess a marked
dependence potential when objectively tested (Penetar and Hennlng-
field 1986).
The wide range of factors that may result in occasional harmful
use of some substances (e.g., caffeine) or which may contribute to the
use of dependence-producing substances such as nicotine (Chapters
IV and VI) is not routinely explored in current laboratory depen-
dence potential tests. Thus, these drug dependence potential testing
procedures appear more likely to underestimate than to overesti-
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mate the pharmacological potential of a drug to cause dependence
outside of the laboratory. Furthermore, as discussed by Katz and
Ooldberg (1988), because a variety of drug and nondrug factors
determine the actual prevalence of drug dependence outside of the
laboratory, dependence potential data are most reliable when
drawing qualitative conclusions. For example, such data are used to
determine whether a drug is dependence producing, or whether it is
more sedative- or stimulant-like.
Dependence Potential Testing: Tolerance and Withdrawal
In addition to taking control over behavior by virtue of reinforcing
and other behavior modifying effects, many addicting drugs can also
produce a physiological change termed physical dependence. Once
physically dependent, the person may experience an even greater
loss of control over use of a particular drug because abstinence from
the drug may be accompanied by discomfort and heightened urges to
take the drug (withdrawal syndrome).
Technically, physical dependence refers to physiological and
behavioral alterations that become increasingly manifest after
repeated exposure to a pharmacologic agent. As noted earlier, the
primary indication of physical dependence is the observation of drug-
abstinence-associated withdrawal signs and symptoms, although
tolerance is a frequent concomitant (Kalant 1978; Cochin 1970;
Kalant, LeBlanc, Gibbins 1971; Eddy 1973; Clouot and Iwatsubo
1975; Yanagita 1977). This phenomenon is also referred to as.
"neuroadaptation" or "physiological" dependence (WHO 1981; Wool-
verton and Schuster 1983). It should be noted that use of the term
"physical" imports no greater degree of objectivity to phenomena
associated with physical dependence than to the phenomenon of
compulsive drug seeking: both physical dependance and drug seeking
involve physiologically mediated drug receptor interactions that
vary with the dose, kinetics, and type of drug. Furthermore, both of
these kinds of drug-associated phenomena involve behavioral and
physiological effects. For example, conventional measures of physi-
cal dependence include responses that are often considered behavior-
al (e.g., urge to use a drug, sleep time, food intake).
Research on opioid dependence in the 1940s focused largely on the
physical dependence that developed when opioids were given to
humans or certain animals (Martin and Isben 1978). In particular,
characterizing the level of tolerance that was acquired when
morphine was repeatedly given, as well as the behavioral and
physiological sequelae of abrupt termination of such administration,
was a msjor contribution to the development of objective methods for
testing dependence-producing drugs in general. Observations emerg-
~ng from such research in the 1940s led to strategies that are still
accepted as the definitive means to measure what may be termed the
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TABLE 5.--Observations pertaining to the evaluation of
physical dependence potential, derived from
studies of morphine-like drugs
1, Repeated drug administration leads to diminished responsiVeneSs <ie., tolerancel that is
more or less complete, depending upon the response measured, Responsiveness might he at
least partially overcome by increasing the dose. The degree of tolerance that develol~ is
generally directly related to the overall dosing level, but varies widely acrc~s various
possible me~sures
2. The establishment of tolerance ta one opioid is shared among many opium-derived and
related chemicals: the principle of "cre~s-toleranee" emerged as one means to further
classify a dependenee-preducing chemical.
3. Abrupt termination of uee leads to behavioral and physiol0fieal responses that often tend to
be opposite of responses produced by acute drug edmin[stratlon. When these opposite
responses actuMly exceed normal baseline levels (e.g., opioid.induced constipation may be
replaced by diarrhea for a few dalai, they are termed "rebound" Pesponses; hence the
frequent labeling of withdrawal ~ *'rebound syndrome." Together, these responsel are
termed "the withdrawal syndrome"
4. Severity of the withdrawal syndrome is related to the duration and dose levels of
preabstinence exposure to the drug.
5. During withdrawal, raadministration of the chronically given opioid can reverse the signs
and symptoms ef the syndrome
6 A range of opioids can subetitu~ for the one to which an organism was chronically
exposed, thereby maintaining the level of physi~l dependence and preventing the onset of a
withdrawal reaction. These same drugs can he used to revere the syndrome of withdrawal
precipitated by removal of the chronically given ¢pinid, This observation provided the
rational basis for the systematic development of *'substitution" or "replacement" therapy for
drug dependence.
NOTI~: Details of the origlnaL experiment~, and subsequent r~arch upon which these obsereation~
follow, h~ve
been reviewed IMartin and Isbell 1978; Martin 197?;.Sharp 1084; ~ al~o Denenu 197'71
"physical dependence potential" of e chemical (Jasinski 1977).
Specifically, these tests could be used to evaluate the likelihood that
(1) repeated use of a drug would lead to tolerance (physiological
adaptation) such that effects of repeated use would diminish and (2)
abrupt abstinence would be accompanied by a syndrome of behavior-
al and physiological disruption (withdrawal syndrome). Table 5
summarizes the prominent observations that emerged from these
early studies (Martin and Isbell 1978; Martin 1977). These observa-
tions provide the conceptual framework within which physical
dependence is assessed (Thompson and Unna 1977).
Tolerance
As noted earlier, repeated ingestion of most dependence-producing
drugs leads to diminished effects unless larger doses of the drug are
taken: this phenomenon is termed tolerance. One reason that
toleranse is an important factor in drug dependence is that it may
contribute to the escalation of drug self-admlnistration that occurs
over time. This relationship is often misinterpreted, however.
Specifically, it is sometimes stated that tolerance results in a
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continuous escalation of drug dose; however, lethal or aversivc dose
levels prevent indefinite escalation.
Procedures for assessing tolerance development rely heavily on
procedures developed for assessing the direct effects of drugs
(Kalant, LeBlane, Gibbins 1971; Abood 1984). Because psychoactive
drugs exert effects on numerous physiological systems and behavior-
al responses, almost any of a wide range of response measures can
serve in studies. Perhaps the most fundamental strategy of tolerance
assessment is to repeatedly present a given drug dose while
measuring the subsequent responses to drug administration. When
the response diminishes across drug presentations, tolerance to that
response is said to have occurred. Among the most frequent
measures of tolerance which have been used to assess psychoactive
drugs are .discrimination of drug administration, analgesia, heart
rate, nausea, sedation, EEG activity, and performance on a behavior-
al task. Some measures (e.g., sedation from barbiturates) are more
specific to certain drug classes, whereas others (e.g., pleasurable and
dysphoric effects) are useful across a wider range of psychoactive
drugs. A variation on the foregoing procedure is to increase the drug
dose after responses have diminished to determine if the original
response level can be partially or completely restored.
Cross-ToTerance
Cress-tolerance is demonstrated when pretreatment with one drug
or formulation type produces tolerance to another drug or formula-
tion type (Wenger 1983; Yanura and Suzuki 1977; Martin and Fraser
1961). For example, a person who is maintained on an adequate dose
level of methadone will experience relatively little effect if he or she
injects his or her usual dose of herein (Kreek 1979). Similarly,
persons given nicotine polacrilex gum may experience attenuated
effects from cigarettes, including reduced satisfaction from smoking
(Nemeth-Coslett et al. 1987).
Mechanisms of Tolerance
Several mechanisms of tolerance can be differentiated (Kalant,
LeBlane, Gibblns 1971; Abood 1984; Haefely 1986; Sharp 1984; WHO
1981). For instance, if a drug impairs the ability to perform a task
that produces some form of reinforcement (e.g., humans working for
money or animals pressing a lever for food), the performance may
return to predrug exposure levels after repeated drug exposure over
time. In this example, at least four distinct mechanisms of tolerance
may have been operational; they are not mutually exclusive and may
co-occur (Kalant, LeBlanc, Gibbins 1971; Abood 1984; Haefely 1986;
Sharp 1984; WHO 1981; Eikelboom and Stewart 1979; Siegel 1975,
1976).
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(1) The rate at which the drug was eliminated from the blood by
metabolism (detexificetion) or excretion (in urine, feces, sweat, or
expired air) may have increased, This is frequently termed "disposi-
tional" or "metabolic" tolerance. A general method used to assess
dispositional tolerance is to measure the rate of decline in plasma
drug levels after varying amounts of drug exposure.
(2) The response at the cellular level might have decreased as the
drug receptor physiologically adapted to the drug or as the number
of receptors was altered (thereby functioning as though the systemic
dose had been reduced). This is frequently termed "functional" or
"pharmacedynamie" tolerance. One method used to assess function-
al tolerance is to hold the plasma drug levels constant while
measuring the response after varying amounts of drug exposure.
(3) The learning and motivational aspects of a behavioral situation
may have resulted in. compensatory behaviors that reduced thb
magnitude of the performance effects. This is frequently termed
"behavioral" tolerance, "drug sophistication," or "behavioral adap-
tation." Behavioral tolerance can be assessed by presenting the drug
at such long intervals so as to minimize the possible development of
functional or metabolic tolerance (e.g., Stitzer, Morrizen, Domino
1970), or by using a variety of other controlled procedures (Krasne-
gor 1978b).
(4) Another behavioral mechanism that can lead to the develop-
ment of tolerance results from the classical or Pavlovlan condition-
ing process that may occur where a drug i~ given. Pavlov (1927)
found that drug administration could .produce an unconditioned
response that could subsequently occur as a conditioned response to
an associated environmental stimulus. However, sometimes the
conditioned response is opposite that of the drug response (Siegel
1975); when a drug-opposite response has been established, this
conditioning mechanism may reduce the strength of the response to
the drug itself (Goudie and Demellwcok 1986).
The kinds of tolerance described above are sometimes categorized
together as '*acquired" tolerance, which emphasizes the fact that
they have developed in an organism as a function of drug exposure
(WHO 1981). Tolerance development can be affected by the unit drug
dose, total daily dose, route of administration, prevailing environ-
mental stimuli, and exposure dynamics (exposure dynamics refers to
whether exposure to a drug is relatively continuous (Way, Loh, Shen
1969) or via multiple, discrete doses (Lukas, Moreton, Khasan 1982))
(see also, Dewey 1984; Adler and Geller 1984; O'Brien 1975; Blgsig et
al. 1978; Okamote, Rao, Walewskl 1988). Acquired tolerance has
been demonstrated to occur with opioids and with most nonopioid
dependence-producing drugs, including nicotine (Martin 1977; Ka-
lant, LeBlanc, Gibbins 1971; Abood 1984; Haefely 1986; Domino
1978; Chapter Ill). In fact, classic techniques of measuring tolerance
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evolved in a series of studies involving nicotine by Langley, Dixon,
and others near the end of the 19th century (Langley 1905; Dixon
and Lee 1912); these researchers found that tolerance to nicotine was
rapid and could be partially overcome by increasing the dose.
Constitutional Tolerance
Historically, although less commonly in recent years, tolerance
has been used to differentiate individuals or populations with regard
to their "preexisting" or "constitutional" level of drug responsive-
ness (Shuster 1984). This phenomenon has been designated "initial"
tolerance by a subcommittee of the WHO (WHO 1981) and is also
often referred to as "drug sensitivity" or "innate drug responsive.
ness." The mechanisms may be similar to those described above; for
example, individuals may be born with differing numbers of
receptors for a particular drug or with different abilities to detoxify a
drug on the basis of enzymatic capacity of their liver. Analogously,
for reasons that ere not related to drug exposure, certain populations
or individuals may be more effective in general at behaviorally
compensating for impediments to learning or performance. Genetic,
dietary, and early (including prenatal) development are possible
sources of such variation that are under study (Abood 1984).
Whereas a fairly wide range of variation among such preexisting
levels of drug sensitivity has not been shown to affect the course of
development of drug dependence, extreme or qualitative differences
may have some impact. Such differences are sometimes held to alter
the vulnerability of various individuals or populations to the
development of drug addiction. One apparent example of such an
effect is the markedly higher percentage of Oriental persons who,
compared with most other populations in the United States, show an
aversive reaction to alcohol ("flushing" response). This reaction
results from slower metabolism of the alcohol metabolito, acetylai.
dehyde, in Orientals compared with many other ethnic groupings
(Nagoshi et al. 1987). However, cultural factors also appear to
strongly influence rates of alcohol use in Orientals so that even
persons who show the flushing response may develop alcoholism
(Sue 1987; Johnson et al. 1987).
Differences in constitutional levels of tolerance among individuals
have been observed for all dependence-producing drugs, including
nicotine (Chapter II). However, the importance of such individual
and/or population differences remains unclear. In fact, a remarkable
feature of opioids, sedatives (including alcohol), and stimulants
(including nicotine) is the degree to which use has become en-
trenched in nearly any culture into which they have been introduced
(Austin 1979). Similarly, initial exposure to opioids, sedatives,
alcohol, cocaine-like stimulants, and nicotine has been shown for
each to lead to drug-seeking behavior in a wide range of animal
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species including primates, dogs, and rodents (Deneau 1977; Yanagi-
ta 1977; Woods, Ikomi, Winger 1971; Brady and Lukas 1984;
Griffiths, Bigelow, Henningfield 1980; Meisch 1987; Meisch and
Carroll 1981).
Withdrawal Syndromes
As discussed earlier, documentation of a drug withdrawal syn-
drome is the primary line of evidence used to decide whether
particular drug can cause physical dependence. The methods used to
properly conduct such tests and provide definitive results are
complex. This Section provides a summary of how such tests are
conducted and some of the main findings from tests of drugs such
morphine, pentebarbital, and nicotine.
Measurement of drug withdrawal phenomena entails recording
physiological, subjective, and behavioral responses that occur when
drug administration is terminated, as well as those that occur
following drug administration. If the organism has developed a
sufficient degree of tolerance, such that levels of drug which
formerly disrupted physiological and behavioral functioning have
become necessary for relatively normal functioning, then the
organism is said to be physically dependent. Such drug abetinence-
induced disruption of functioning is termed a drug "withdrawal" or
"abstinence" 1reaction or syndrome. The behavioral and physiological
responses include some that are opposite those produced by drug
administration. For instance, opioid-inducod pupillary constriction,
alcohol-induced muscle relaxation, and nicotine-indueed tachycardia
may be replaced by pupillary dilation, convulsive muscle activity,
and bradycardia, respectively. Each drug withdrawal syndrome is
unique to a particular drug class and animal species and also varies
somewhat within individuals of a given species which are tested with
the same drug. Both frequency and magnitude of withdrawal
responses are typically measured.
In human studies, the range of measures available to assess
withdrawal reactions is considerable. They may be designated by
three categories', autonomic (e.g., blood pressure, pulse, core temper-
ature, respiratory rate, pupillary diameter, diarrhea), somatomotor
(e.g., nociception, neuromuscular reflexes, auditory and visual
evoked potentials), and behavioral (e.g., irritability, sleep/awake
cycle, hunger, urge to take the drug, i.e., "craving"). Himmelsbach
and Andrews (1943) incorporated these distinctions into a weighted-
point system used for rating the severity of these signs and
symptoms of withdrawal (Fraser and Isbell 1960; Jasinski 1977).
Refinements in the scaling of opioid withdrawal responses have
continued (e.g., ARCI, weak opiate withdrawal scale) (Haertzen 1966;
Bradley at al. 1987; Handelsman et al. 1987).
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Opioid withdrawal phenoaena remain the most rigorously studied
and well characterized among the dependence-producing drugs. In
part, this is because of the ready observability of many of the signs
(e.g., dilated pupils, sweating, diarrhea). Other drugs for which
withdrawal reactions are now known or suspected to occur in
humans (e.g, amphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, phencyclidJne) have
been much less thoroughly studied than the epioids and sedatives
(Mendelsen and Mello 1984; Jones and Benowltz 1976). Studies with
these drugs are also hindered by the fact that there are fewer readily
observable signs of withdrawal, placing a greater burden off sephisti-
cated technology (e.g., EEG and neurohormonal assessment) and
procedures (e.g., performance assessment).
Two basic methods are used to measure withdrawal reactions.
After a period of chronic drug administration, behavioral and
"physiological responses are measured following either abrupt drug
abstinence ("spontaneous withdrawal") or the administration of a
drug antagonist ("precipitated withdrawal") (Thompson and Unna
1977; Martin 1977).
Spontaneous Withdrawal Syndromes
Experimental studies of spontaneous withdrawal reactions include
two procedures for obtaining subjects which have been chronically
exposed to the drug. One procedure, termed the "direct addiction"
procedure, is to administer the drug to the subject at gradually
increasing dose levels, then to stabilize the dose for a predetermined
time interval. Drug administration is then abruptly discontinued,
and withdrawal measures are taken. This method has been used to
study withdrawal from opioids, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, stimu-
lants, ethanol, PCP, and gaseous anesthetics in a number of animal
species and humans (Brady and Luka$ 1984). A variation on this
procedure is to abruptly withdraw subjects from a drug which they
had been chronically receiving in the nonlaboratery environment. In
human subjects, withdrawal reactions following cessation of use of
opioids, alcohol, nicotine, sedatives, and other drugs have been
studied using this procedure (Brady and Lukes 1984; Chapter IV).
A second procedure, termed the "substitution procedure," involves
maintaining subjects at a given dose level of a standard or baseline
drug; periodically, doses of the standard drug are replaced with
either a placebo or a test drug to determine if there are signs of
withdrawal that occur before the next dose of the baseline drug
(Fraser 1957). This procedure provides information analogous to that
obtained from studies of cress-tolerance; namely, it permits determi-
nation of whether cross-dependence exists. If the test drug prevents
the expected onset of a withdrawal syndrome that should have
accompanied abstinence from the maintenance drug, then it is
possible that the two drugs produce similar kinds of physical
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dependence. Because it is possible to suppress certain withdrawal
responses by using unrelated drugs (e.g., clonidine can suppress
certain aspects of morphine and nicotine (Jasinski, Johnson, Hen-
ningfield 1984)), a variety of control procedures are necessary to
identify the mechanism by which the replacement drug suppressed
the withdrawal responses (Martin 1977; Deneau and Weiss 1968;
Yanagita and Takahashi 1973; Okamoto, Rosenberg, Boisse 1975;
Jones, Prada, Martin 1976; Yanaura and Suzuki 1977).
In human subjects, both the direct addiction and substitution
strategies were used to evaluate withdrawal reactions from opioids,
barbiturates, and alcohol at the Addiction Research Center in the
1940s and 1950s (Himmelsbach 1941; Himmelsbach and Andrews
1943; Isbell et aL 1950, 1955). However, since those classic studies,
most dependence potential studies in humans have been conducted
with subjects who had been using the drug in a nonexperimental
setting prior to the study. The effects of abstinence from chronic
administration of opioids, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, caffeine,
and nicotine have been studied using these variations of spontaneous
withdrawal assessment (Benzer and Cushman 1980; Charney et al.
1981; Jaffe et al. 1983; Griffiths and Woodson 1988a; Greden 1981;
Hatsukami, Hughes, Pickens 1985; Chapter IV). A disadvantage of
such approaches is that it is not always possible to stabilize the
subjects at a known dose level, which results in considerable cross-
subject variation. The consequence of such dose-related variability is
that it can raise the threshold for the detection of significant effectS.
This source of variability probably contributed to some of the earlier
inconsistent findings regarding the nature and severity of withdraw-
al reactions from tobacco (see further discussions in Murray and
Lawrence 1984). Early in the 20th century, analogous seemingly
inconsistent data led to debates about the existence of an alcohol
withdrawal syndrome (Isbell et al. 1955).
Precipitated Withdrawal Syndromes
Precipitated withdrawal responses may occur when a drug antago-
nist abruptly displaces the dependence-producing drug from its
binding sites on receptors. The viability of this approach depends on
the availability of a specific receptor antagonist which does not have
other actions that would preclude assessment of a withdrawal
syndrome. The antagonist is often given parenterally (e.g., intrave-
nously or intramuscularly) to maximize its rate of onset and hence
the likelihood of precipitating a withdrawal reaction.
Because of the availability of specific opioid antagonists, prsolpita.
tion of withdrawal phenomena associated with abstinence from the
morphine-like drugs has been most thoroughly studied using this
strategy (Martin et at. 1987). The studies have shown that the
process that leads to physical dependence begins with the first dose
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of morphine (Higgins et el. 1987; Bickel et el. 1988) although such
low levels of physical dependence are not generally considered
sufficient for the clinical diagnosis of physical dependence. Analo-
gous studies have been conducted using the antagonists of the
benzodiazepines (e.g., diazepam (Lukas and Griffitbs 1982, 1984)) and
are one element in the conclusive demonstration that these drugs do
produce physical dependence (WHO 1981, 1987), With regard to
tobacco or other forms of nicotine delivery, no such comparable
studies have been conducted, although, as discussed in Chapter IV,
preliminary and related data suggest the theoretical possibility that
nicotinic antagonists may be used to precipitate nicotine withdrawal
responses (Pickworth, Herning, Henningfield, in press).
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Variability in Withdrawal Syndromes
There are multiple determinants of the course and magnitude of
the withdrawal reaction from a drug. Factors which have been
studied in the laboratory are similar to those which affect the
development of tolerance described earlier. These include the total
daily dose of the drug that was given, specific drug type, the duration
of exposure, the schedule of termination, genetic constitution,
gender, and the prevailing environmental stimuli (Suzuki et el. 1987;
Suzuki et el. 1983; O'Brien et el. 1978; Suzuki et al. 1985; Yanagita
and Takahashi 1973; Yanagita 1973). In general, the magnitude of
the withdrawal reaction is directly correlated with the dose level
given, the duration of exposure, and the rapidity with which drug•
levels at the receptor sites decrease. Conversely, lower dose levels,
shorter times of exposure, and gradual dose reduetion (as opposed to
abrupt abstinence) can attenuate the withdrawal syndrome (Ks]ant,
LaBlanc, Gibbins 1971; Abood 1984; Jaffa 1985; Okamote 1984).
Because withdrawal signs and symptoms vary among individuals
using the same drug, the syndrome may net be apparent when a
small number of individuals are studied. Lack of general understand-
ing of such factors probably contributed to the fact that the nature of
morphine withdrawal phenomena in humans was not rigorously
documented until the studies by Himmelsbach and his esworkers in
the 1940s (Himmelsbach 1941; Himmelsbach and Andrews 1943).
Similarly, withdrawal responses from chronic alcohol administra-
tion were not conclusively characterized and demonstrated until the
pioneering studies by ]sbell and his eoworkers in the 1950s (Ishell et
al. 1955). Research involving comparable strategies of assessment of
physical dependence on cocaine, amphetamine, marijuana, PCP, and
nicotine, only began in the late 1970s. In the absence of such data,
these drugs were sometimes held to be nonaddicting (e.g., President's
Advisory Commission 1963), Nonetheless, for several of such drugs it
had long been recognized that some drug withdrawal phenomena did
occur (Jaffa 1970, 1976, 1980, 1985) and that such phenomena were
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of clinical significance in the treatment of persons who were
attempting to abstain from them (Jaffe 1970, 1976, 1980, 1985;
Zweben 1986). For example, even prior to the rigorous studies of
tobacco withdrawal phenomena in the early 1980s (Chapter IV), the
Tobacco Withdrawal Syndrome had been recognized by the Ameri-
can Psychiatric Association (APA) as aa Organic Mental Disorder in
its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders
(APA 1980) on the basis of the extensive clinical observations and
other sources of information prior to the 1980s (Chapter IV). The
specificity of tobacco withdrawal to nicotine itself was acknowledged
in the revised DSM (APA 1987).
Cmv!ngs or Urges
Among the most frequently discussed aspects of drug dependence
is the recurrent and often persistent urge to use drugs in drug-
dependent persons. The urge or desire to use a drug is widely termed
"craving." However, how craving is defined and how craving-related
data are interpreted comprise one of the most problematic areas in
drug dependence research. For example, the term craving has been
used in such a variety of ways that its use may actually impede
accurate communication (Kozlowski and Wilkinson 1987; Henning-
field 1987): In the present Report, where possible, the term "craving"
has been replaced by more descriptive terms and phrases such as
"strength of an urge to use a drug" wherever the original meaning of
the referent material is not changed.
Whereas the urge to use a drug is a correlate of drug abstinence, it
is not an invariant one. For example, although urges to take drugs
reliably increase during early abstinence from morphine- and
pentabarbital-like (short-acting sedatives-hypnotics) drugs, they are
not a necessary concomitant of withdrawal reactions from other
opioids (e.g., eyclasocine) (Martin et al. 1965; Jasiaski 1978), and
alcoholics often "voluntarily" abstain and undergo withdrawal even
when alcohol is available (Meno 1968; Mandelson and Mello 1966).
Moreover, such urges are also evoked-by stimuli associated with
drugs and even by administration of the drug itself (O'Brien,
Ehrman, Ternes 1986; Childrees et al., in press). Thus, urges to use
drugs also occur (often at high levels) when there is little other
evidence that physical dependence is present (e.g., many years after
drug abstinence) or when drug intake is sufficient so that no other
withdrawal signs or symptoms are present.
Because drug abstinence is only one of many factors that can
evoke the urge to use a drug and because such urges are not
necessarily alleviated by suppressing physiological withdrawal signs,
conclusions based upon such data must be carefully considered and
appropriately qualified. For instance, although methadone can block
withdrawal responses (at adequate dose levels), it does not reliably
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diminish urges to use other opioids or opioid self-administration
(Jones and Prada 1975; Grabowski, Stitser, Henningfield 1984;
Henningfield and Brown 1987). It would not be appropriate to
conclude that methadone did not effectively block withdrawal
reactions from morphine-like drugs simply because it did not
eliminate such urges, because by other measures, methadone is
effective at blocking opioid withdrawal (Kreek 1979; Jaffe 1985;
Jasinski and Henningfield 1988). Analogously, as reviewed in
Chapters IV and VII, most tobacco withdrawal re-
sponses are effectively suppressed by nicotine replacement even
though urges to use cigarettes are not reliably diminished (see also
Henaingfield and Jasinski 1986).
Constraints on Physical Dependence Potential Testing
There are both practical and conceptual constraints on physical
dependence potential testing. The practical constraints have been
discussed above and are related to the multiple sources of variability
in the intensity of withdrawal responses, which can result in failure
to detect withdrawal or in unreliable date.
The main conceptual eonstreint is that physical dependence is
neither a necessary nor sufficient condition to establish or maintain
drug-seeking behavior. For instance, drug-seeking and drng-taking
behaviors can persist at small doses of cocaine or morphine which
produce no significant degree of physical dependence in animals
(Schuster and Woods 1967; Dcneau, Yanaglta, Seevers'1969; Johan-
son, Baister, Bonese 1976; Jones and Prada 1977; Bozarth and Wise
19B1) or in human subjects (Zinberg 1979). Conversely, animals in
the laboratory and humans in hospitals can be made physically
dependent on drugs such as opioids and barbiturates and yet never
display controlled or addictive drug-seeking behavior (WHO 1961;
Bell 1971). Similarly, compounds such as propranolol, cyclazocine,
and nitrites have clear physical dependence potentials in that
tolerance develops after repeated dosing and an abstinence syn-
drome appears upon cessation, yet drug-seeking or drug.taklng
behavior does not reliably occur (Myers and Austin 1929; Crandall et
al. 1981; Rector, Selden, Copenhaver 1955; Jasinski 1976; Jaffe 1986).
Another constraint is the difficulty in determining whether
abstinence-associated symptomology is specific to an individual or to
an underlying medical disorder that became evident upon removal of
the drug (Woody, MeLellan, O'Brien 1984; Zweben 1986; Kesten,
Rounsaville, Kleber 1986; Stitzer and Gross 1988). For instance, an
opioid might alleviata depression in a person with primary affeetive
disorder. In general, as will be described below (see also Chapter IV),
withdrawal responses may be distinguished from other abstinence-
associated symptomology by their relative consistency among indi-
•

viduals, by their transient nature, and by the direct relationship
between their magnitude and the level of preabstinence drug intake.
Finally, although the magnitude of the withdrawal syndrome is a
widely used index for assessing the degree of physical dependence, it
should be noted that this single measure is not always sufficient. For
instance, several studies have demonstrated that spontaneous with-
drawal from chronic levo-alpha-acetylmethadol (LAAM) or bupre.
norphine administration failed to result in pronounced signs of
withdrawal (Jasinski, Pevnick, Griffith 1978; Young, Steinfels,
Khasan 1979). Such observations could lead to the false conclusion
~' that LAAM and buprenorphine do not produce significant degrees of
physical dependence, when in fact a variety of other lines of evidence
confirm that -they do. For example, administration of an opioid
antagonist such as naloxone precipitates a marked and intense
withdrawal syndrome in LAAM-maintained animals (Young, Stein-
-fals, Khasan 1979). Analogously, Dum, Bl~sig, and Herz (1981)
performed a substitution type of experiment demonstrating that
chronic administration of bupi'enorphine also results in physical
dependence. The explanation for the misleadingly weak spontaneous
withdrawal phenomena for LAAM and buprenorphine seems to be
the slow elimination of these drugs from the plasma, which permits
the body to adjust more gradually to drug abstinence. The long
elimination half-life of LAAM's active metabolites (Kaiko and
Inturrisi 1975) and buprenorphine's unique affinity for the opiate
receptor and long elimination half-life (Cowan, Lewis, MacFarlane
1977) contribute 'to the lack of observed withdrawal signs after
chronic exposure is terminated. A similar example exists for the
long-acting benzodiazepine, diazepam. A delayed and relatively mild
withdrawal syndrome appears after spontaneous withdrawal, but
administration of the benzodiazepine receptor antagonist, Ro15-1789
(flumasenil), precipitates an immediate, intense abstinence syn-
drome (Lukas and Griffiths 1982, 1984). Analogous results are
produced when the daily dose level of shorter acting drugs is
gradually decreased.
A practical application of the finding that the magnitude of
withdrawal reactions tends to be inversely related to rate of drug
elimination is the gradual elimination of drugs from individuals who
are suspected of being highly physically dependent. Such gradual
elimination reduces the magnitude of the withdrawal syndrome.
This is the basis of the gradual withdrawal of morphine, alcohol, or
nicotine after a period of chronic intake at high dose levels (Jaffe
1985). Although gradual dose reduction of opioids and nicotine
reduces the magnitude of most aspects of the withdrawal syndrome,
it is not clear that such an approach improves overall treatment
outcome compared with much more rapid drug cessation (i.e., "cold
turkey") (Jasinski and Henningfield 1988; Chapter VII).
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Therapeutic or Useful Effects of Dependence-Producing
Drugs
With many dependence-producing drugs, the same biologica!
properties that ere important in their dependence-producing proper-
ties may also ]end them to therapeutic application. In fact, mast
classes of drugs which cause dependence, including opioids, seda-
tives, alcohol, cocaine-like drugs, and nicotine, have been used as
medieinals to treat specific medical disorders and human discom-
forts. Descriptions of the approved and general uses are available in
the American Hospital Formulary Service (1987), the Physician's
Desk Reference (Medical Economies Company 1988), the Unitecl
States Pharmacopeia (United States Pharmacopeial Convention
• 1985), and Goodman and Gilman's Pharmacological Basis of There-
peutics (Gilman et al. 1985) (see also Table 6).
Although each of the drugs listed in Table 6 has a range of
potential or actual therapeutic applications, past and current uses
are often related to their effects on mood, feeling, and behavior. For
instance, the stimulants may be used to modulate arousal level the
opialds to alleviate pain, the sedatives to alleviate anxiety; the drugs
are sometimes systematically used to treat the dependence which
may have previously developed on them or on another drug in the
same class. Nicotine is no exception tothese observations. Historical-
ly, tobacc6 was used to treat a range of disease states, although
usually without evidence of efficacy (Corti 1931; Austin 1979).
Nicotine in the polaerilex gum form is a drug approved by the FDA
for treatment of nicotine dependence (see Chapter VII).
The therapeutic effects of dependence-producing drugs not only
illustrate an important point of commonality among these drugs, but
these effects also may be important in the drug dependence process
itself. Such potential drug actions can be important in the initiation,
maintenance, and relapse to drug dependence. The dependence
process may have been precipitated by the therapeutic use (medical.
ly approved or self-initiated) of a drug. The dependence process may
be exacerbated by the real or perceived benefit of the drug to the
individual as such actions strengthen the reinforcing power of the
drug. The therapeutic actions of a drug may be associated with
relapse to drug use after many years of abstinence. These aspects of
dependence potential as they pertain to nicotine are discussed in
Chapter VI.
Adverse and Toxic Drug Effects
As discussed earlier, adverse drug effects are important clinical
features of drug dependence. These effects may be used as fa0ters in
objective determinations of the overall liability associated with a
drug (Yanugite 1987; Griffiths et el. 1985). For instance, chronic
administration of sedatives or alcohol can produce intoxication and
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• • • • • • • •
• • • B
TABLE 6.--Effects that may be produced by addicting drugs
Attribute NtcQtine •
Cocaine Morphine like
Alcohol
Discriminable interoceptive
(su'~j~tlve} effects
Produce dose-related increases
in self-reported "liking" scores
Henningfleid and Goldl~rg
tl~,% M~ and
Stephenson t 1969)
+
Henningfleld, Miyasato,
Jasinski { 19~51
Produce elevated r~p0nse on MBG +
(euphorla~ scale of ARC inventory Henningfield, Miyagato,
J~inski (1985)
Positive reinforcer in animal
drug seif-ndmlnistratwm studies
+
Goklberg. Spealman.
Go!dberg II~IL Deneau
and Inoki (IE~/). Ando and
Yanagita (l@lk
Henningf~ekl and GoMberg
{ 198Xa~
Fischman et al. t1970
+
Henningf~.ld et aL tl~7)
F~'hrnan et al q976)
÷
IX, ckens and Thompson
(1968L Deneaa et aL (1S~9)
POSitive reinforcer in human +
*
drdg self-adminlstratlc~ studies Hennlngfield. Miyasato, Fisehman and Schuster
J~sinski ~1~3)
<1982)
Terry and PelLen* i1970)
+
Martin and Fraser 119Gl)
t
Hvert~en et a] 41963)
+
Headl~e et aL <196.5)+
Thompson and Schuster
I1964)
Jones and Prada I19751
Carpenter t 19621
*?
Mello (19¢~)
÷
Henningfield et al q9~4,.
Stltzer et al qlg@ll
Deneau et a[ q1969+
Winger and Woods ~197;I,
l~i~elv'~, et al. (1975). de
Wit et al d.q871
tO
tD
~D

TABLE ~---Conbnued
8
Attribute Nic~i~,~ '
Cocaine Morphia-like
Alcohol
PlaCe conditioning
+
Fudala. Teob. hearl~o
(L9~5}
Physlc~} dependence develops such that +
withdrawal a~c~rap~nle~ Hatsukaml et al ~|~c~S4t.
abrupt ab~inence Ht~ghes and Hatsukami
c|986~
ToLerance develops
Therapeutic ~LSe in treatmem or
medical d~rder
+
Langley tlS~5~. Domino
qlO78L i~mrk~ Bureh.
Collins fl983~. Je4ne~
FarrelL Herning 119781
J.i
AMA [19~3). Gilman e~ al
Company (19871, and others
fipyraki, Fiblger. PhilliPS
t 19@2)
~?
Carl*oil and Lac ql~71.
Jones 119841
J.
!Tatum and Seeve~ ¢1929].
:Downs and Eddy ~1932~.
:W~Nenon and Schtw;ter
,11977}. Weed and Emmett-
Oglesby (I~7~
AMA II~k Gilman et aL
(IS~5~ M~ Eccr.,~k~
'Company (19~71, and others
Barde and Ne~ewander
+
Light and Torrance 419"25#-aL
Kolb and Himmeb2~ach
41~1. Himmelsb~lch ~19411
Light and Torrance (1929b,
AMA ~1S83~ Gilman et al.
~19~5~. Medical Economics
Company (1~71. and others
Stewart and Grupp ,19~,
~l} et al ~1955~
+
Goldberg (1943~
AMA d983~. Gilman et a].
~1985*. Medlca} F, eonomie~
Company (l~Tt, arid othe~
$, • • • • • •
• • • •

TABLE 6c---Continued
Att r]~ute Caffeine Marina
Lysergic. acid diethylam~de Odorpromazlne
l)im'tlmlrmble intor~e~a~
Cm~tiye) effee~
Produce des~related incre~es
in sdf-repor~d "llking~ scor~
Produce elevated respcase on MBG
(euphoria) ~le cl" ARC in'ventm3'
~e reinforcer in animal
drug self~lministration stud~
Positive relnf~ in human
~1 f~dminist m~on stad~
Place cQnditloning
+ +
Gilbert (19"/6), Grimths and Siler et al. (1933)
Woodsoa (1~)
+- +
Gfiffiti~ Bigdow, GebsonHigglm and Stit~r {1~).
et aL tl~), ChaA and Cone et al. (I~)
Grimths (l~3)t, Grifl'~s
and Woo&on (1988b)
+-
Chait arKi Griffiths (19~])
Demmu et el. (19~9),
Gtlfr, ths and Wood~m
(19~8b)
+?
Gei~,tbs. Bigeimv. Liebson
et al. (19~. Grlf~tbs.
Bigelow. Liebson (19~6t,
Gri~tbs and Woocbcn
11988b)
Higgins and Stltzer (1~).
Cone et al. (1~6)
Har~ et ed. (1974)
+
Mtmdels~n and Mello (1S~4)
t.t
+
Ho fmann (1975}
+
Grimth~. Bigelow,
119791
?
lLgel~zen et al. (1963~
Hoffmeister a~d Wuttke
(197~
Stltzer et al. (I~i]
Hoff~i~er and Go]dberg
(19T3~, Hoffrnei~ter [1975).
Denesu et a~. (1969)
Gri~ths, Bigelow,
1|9791

TABLE 6.~ntinued
to
Attritmte
Caffeine
Marijuana
Lysergic scld diethylamide
C-nlorprome2ine
Physical de.nee d~ such that
will e~t'0mpe~ies
abr,pt ,,l~inee~
Tolerance develops
Therapeutic use in t~ffivA~lent of
medal disorder
+
Griflith~ Bigelow. Liebs0n
(19~6k ~ av~
Pfeiffer {)943). Ho~t et eL
(1934). Grimths and
Wcodson (1988a)
+
Carney (19~2), Eddy emd
IDow~ (192gl, Grlffiths and
Wcodsoa (1988a)
J~s
AMA (1983), Gilman et eL
(19S5), Medical Economies
Company (19~7k and othe~
*?
Jo~s and Benowitz (1976k
Mevdels~ et eL (1984),
Ford and McMinan (1972k
Beardsley eL at. (19~6~
+
McMillan et at. (1970), Weft
et aL (1968), Babor et al.
(1975), Cane et al (1986~
+s
AMA (1983k Gilman et al.
(19~5}, I~edi~l E¢onomlcs
Company (1967), and others
l.~5~ll et al. (19~6)
+
Isbell et al. (1956)
?7
AMA (1983),+Gilman e~ al
(I~5), Medical E~oaomlc~
Company t19~?), and o*J',ers
?
Bat~ess~L~i (~9~0)
+m
AMA (19~3), Gil~a~ et at
11985), Medical F.covom]cs
Company (19~71, and others
N(fJ~ + in (~ ;¢.~t~'~ that drug sdminlst ratlon pv0d~ t}te effect. - indi~de~ that drug
~dminlst rat ion ~oes not pr~t,~e the effect: ? ir~i<~t es t ~',at available scient i~c d~ta art*
inad~uate to draw
conclm
• FurLher dLsc~ss,on can t~ found in ot her chapters ca" thi~ Repot t
' A~ ald to stop ¢igarat te smc~ing and ~o treat nK~tlr~ de~
AS topic~ ae~tt~etic (~arely ~1 fo~ ear. ~mSel eye, and thr~L
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myocaTdial infa~ (~m. anx~[y~m, and r~d~k-t~ I¢f¢ vent~l~r w0rk.h~d ~d ~ardml vxygea
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severe mood swings (Mello and Mendelson 1970; Mello 1968; Isbell et
al. 1950); erratic supplies of opioids may be associated with sociop-
athic drug-seeking and withdrawal-related mood effects (Jasinski
1977); erratic supply of tobacco can also result in disruption of
ongoing activities in an effort to obtain tobacco or as a consequence
of withdrawal.
Consideration of multiple factors such as the dependence potential
of a drug, the extent of its actual use, and the degree to which it
produces adverse effects can be used to access the overall liability
associated with the use of a drag (i.e., "abuse liability"} (Brady and
Lukas 1984; Griffiths et al. 1985; Yanagita 1987). For example,
caffeine produces only minimal (if any) disruptive behavioral or
physiological effects and is not generally regarded as posing a serious
public health problem even though self-administration may be
widespread (e.g., caffeine in teaor coffee) (Griffiths and Woodson
1988a,b). In contrast, drugs which produce disruptive physiological
and behavioral changes even when self-administered infrequently
may be considered to represent a more serious health hazard (e.g.,
LSD). Drugs may fall anywhere on the continuum defined by these
parameters, and the relative impact on health is most effectively
determined by a comprehensive assessment of these interactive
behavioral and physiological dimensions (Griffiths, Brady, Snell
1978b; Griffiths et al. 1985; Brady and Lukas 1984; Yanagita 1987).
Identification of Dependence-Producing Drugs
Independent of whether use of a substance has been observed to
lead to addiction, it is possible to directly and objectively test a
chemical to determine if it is addicting. Such tests provide data used
by Federal (e.g., FDA~ Drug Enforcement Administration) and
International (e.g., WHO) agencies as to how to regulate chemicals.
In fact, new drugs are usually evaluated and regulated ("scheduled")
before they are ever made available for medical application. Such
decisions rely heavily upon the known properties of addicting drugs
and on the methods used to test for such properties (bath described in
this Chapter). Although the physicechemical structure of the drug is
one determinant of the stimulus effects produced by drug adminis-
tration, simply knowing the drug structure is rarely sufficient to
predict the nature and magnitude of possible drug effects (Barnett,
Trsie, Willette 1978); behavioral and physiological testing in animals
and humans is usually necessary. When there is convergent evidence
from multiple measures of dependence potential; then the drug is
appropriately regarded as addicting or dependence producing.
Whether humans outside the laboratory actually become addicted
will depend on additional factors such as availability, price, and
social acceptability of the drug (US DHHS 1987; also see discussion
by Katz and Galdberg 1988).
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Table 6 provides a comparison of several drugs in terms of the
major measures that have been reviewed in this Chapter. As shown
in the table, drugs known to produce widespread problems in a given
population are characterized by positive responses with most of these
measures (cocaine, morphine-like drugs, alcohol, and nicotine).
Conversely, drugs not contributing to such problems have fewer
positive responses on the various tests (cholorpremazine). Intermedi-
ate drugs are associated with intermediate levels of difficulty in
management of use.
Comparison Among Drugs
Within a given class of drugs, it is sometimes possible to rate their
.celative efficacy as reinforcers by how much behavior was affected
(e.g., how many lover prossos would occur or how much money would
be paid) (Griffiths etal. 1981; Yanagita 1987). For instance, the
slowor onsetting/offsotting formulations of opioids, barbiturates,
stimulants, and nicotine appear to hays a lower dependence poten-
tial than the quicker onsotting and offsetting formulations (Jaffe
1985).
The practical gonecaiity of such comparisons, however, is limited
beeauso many other factors determine the overall level of depon-
dence that might dovolop, the extent 'of social and/or personal
damage, and the resulting level of social concern (Yanagita 1987;
Katz and Goldberg 1988). For example, the increasing availability
and decreasing relative price of cocaine in recen.t years are major
factors contributing to increased levels of use and resultant social
damage (US DHHS 1987). Analogously, the widespread ready
availability and the relatively low cost of tobacco products and
alcohol have probably contributed to the much higher rates of
addiction and mortality associated with alcohol and tobacco than
with drugs such as cocaine, even though cocaine may appear to be a
more offoctivo reinforcer in animals. Social or cultural factors may
also contribute to the spread and levels of drug use. For example,
sensational press reporting may have contributed to the populariza-
tion of barbiturates in the 1960s (Breoher 1972), and the mass
marketing and advertising of tobacco products is likely to have
contributed to the use of these products, ospecially among women
and ospecially in the case of smokeless tobacco products (Ernster
1985, 1986; Warner 1986b; Davis 1987; Tye, Warrior, Giants 1987).
Four oxamplos of drugs associated with striking changes in the
prevalence of use among various populations as well as associated
morbidity are: alcohol, for which use and associated disoases
decreased during the Prohibition years early in the 20th century;
lysorgic acid diethylamide (LSD), for which use and associated
hospitalizations were elevated during the 1960s; cocaine, for which
use and associated hospitalizations increased during the 1970s
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(Crowiey and Rhine 1985; Levine 1984; Nahas and Frick 1991;
Dupont, Goldstein, Brown 1979; Holder 1987; US DHHS 1987);
tobacco, in which consumption of smokeless tobacco products in-
creased among youth in 1970s and cigarette consumption increased
sharply among women in the 1950s and 1960s (US DHHS 1991, 1986;
Appendix A). As discussed in the aforementioned references, the
changes in use of these drugs were not due to changes in the
pharmacologic actions of the drug or sudden changes in genetic
constitution of the populations, but rather to changes in factors such
as availability, cost, social acceptability, regulatory controls, market-
ing efforts, and general perceptions about the risks associated with
use.
Finally, various other factors contribute to the level of social
concern and may be only indirectly related or unrelated to the
pharmacologic properties of the drug itself. For instance, the
observations on transmission of AIDS by way of shared needles
among i.e. drug users and on cancer caused by tobacco smoke
carcinogens have greatly increased the liability of use attributed to
these drugs in recent years.
Environmental Determinants of Drug Dependence Including
Behavioral Cond/tionlng
A common feature of use of all dependence.producing drugs is that
the positive (satisfaction symptoms) and negative (e.g., withdrawal
symptoms) effects may become conditioned responses to associated
environmental stimuli, The implications of this are important for
understanding the chronic and self-sustaining nature of drug
dependencies. Such conditioning is a powerful behavioral mechan-
ism by which the drug comes to control an increasing amount of the
behavior of the drug user (Thompson and Schuster 1968; Goldberg
1976a).
Some of the important environmental determinants of drug
dependence are discussed elsewhere in this Chapter in the context of
drug self-administration studies. These factors include: (I) the
behavioral or economic cost of the drug itself or of taking the drug,
(2) direct pressure to take the drug by making other reinforcers
contingent upon drug taking, and (3) the other ongoing activities of
the person (e.g., demanding work schedule) that tend to enhance
drug taking. The focus of the present Section is on environmental
stimuli that may contribute to drug dependence by evoking urges to
use drugs, and by eliciting bodily responses that mimic the usual
effects of either drug taking or drug withdrawal reactions.
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Drug Taking as a Learned Behavior
The interface between a drug and its effects is the behavior of
obtaining and ingesting the drug. Such behavior is learned behavior,
and as discussed earlier in this Chapter, many of the factors that
modulate this behavior are similar to those which modulate other
learned behaviors including eating, exercise, and occupational skills
(Thompson and Schuster, 1968). Technically, drug taking is "operant
behavior" and includes "respondent" or "classically conditioned"
components. The basic governing principle of operant behavior is
that it occurs in the context of certain stimuli and is either
strengthened or weakened by the nature of the consequence (a
positive reinforcer strengthens the response and a punisher weakens
the response} (Skinner 1938, 1953). Thus, for example, a friend might
offer a drug (antecedent stimulus); the drug is ingested (operant
behavior or response); and the effects of the drug strengthen the
behavior (positive reinforcement). Respondent conditioning occurs
simultaneously and further contributes to the strength of the
behavior (Bouton and Swartzentruber 1986). A drug might serve as
an unconditioned stimulus which elicits a relatively involuntary
response (e.g., nicotine and morphine can elicit feelings of pleasure
and/or nausea); when physical dependence has occurred, drug
abstinence can also elicit certain responses (e.g., anxiety and urges to
take the drug). Any environmental or even internal stimulus can
become part of this conditioning process by repeated association with
the elicited response. For example, the taste of alcohol, the smell of'
smoke, "thinking" about use of the substance, and the sight of
cocaine- or opioid-associated paraphernalia can elicit feelings associ-
ated with either the administration or withdrawal of the drug
(Childress, McLenan, O'Brien 1986a,b; Ludwig 1986; Ludwig and
Stark 1974; Erben 1977; Gotestam and Melin 1983; Pickeus, Bigelow,
Griffiths 1973; Rickard-Figueroa and Zeichner 1985; Levine 1974).
The simultaneous operation of both operant and respondent
conditioning can converge to generate and maintain powerful chains
of behavior over which the individual may have little control. As
shown earlier in this Chapter, highly addicting drugs are those
which are very effective at reinforcing behavior and eliciting
responses. Their power can be increased by factors such as drug
deprivation, which may be associated with a discomforting with-
drawal syndrome. In the presence of withdrawal, the person may
behave in a way to relieve the discomfort of a withdrawal syndrome',
in this case the withdrawal syndrome itself may be said to be
functioning as a negative reinforcer. When drugs are readily
available, as with tobacco for most people or opioids for physicians,
these behavioral conditioning processes may be very subtle because
the drug can be taken in a pattern that avoids excessive discomfort.
For example, early interoceptive or subjective withdrawal cues that
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are evident upon waking in the morning signal that "it is time to
smoke a cigarette," and thus the smoker neither "forgets to smoke"
nor experiences pronounced withdrawal symptoms.
As implied by the foregoing discussion, the strength and persis-
tence of drug-seeking behavior are not just functions of the drug
itself or of withdrawal. Rather, they are determined by many factors,
such as the number of times that certain reponses are associated
with certain stimuli, the presence or absence of such stimuli, the
subjective discomfort occurring as part of withdrawal, and the
availability of the drug. The convergence of so many environmental
and subjective forces can result in extremely persistent behavior
that may appear disproportionate to the pleasure actually experi-
enced when the drug is taken (e.g., the few minutes of pleasure from
the postdinner cigarette or when heroin is taken after 8 to 12 hr of
deprivation). In fact, the subjective pleasure itself may be very mild,
and the person may describe the role of the drug as "simply
maintaining feelings of normalcy or comfort" and not as "getting
high" per se. The scientific basis for these observations has been
actively and systematically studied since the pioneering work of
Wikler and others (Wikler 1973) and has been reported and reviewed
in detail elsewhere (Goudie and Demellweek 1986; O'Brien, Ehrman,
Ternes 1986; Grabowski and Cherek 1983; Grabowski and O'Brien
1981; Childress, McLenan, O'Brien 1986a,b; McLellan et el. 1986;
Wikler 1973; Meyer and Mirin 1979).
Drug-Associated Stimuli Modulate Drug Seeking
Stimuli associated with drug effects may come to elicit ("trigger")
those same effects or sometimes opposite effects (withdrawal re.
sponses). For example, increased heart rate induced by stimulant
administration may become associated with multiple environmental
stimuli - the color of the tablet, the individual who provided it, and
the office environment in which the drug was taken. These stimuli
may act alone or in concert. One stimulus may produce a slight heart
rate change; two such stimuli may produce a larger change; and the
presentation of many such stimuli may have a synergistic effect.
Other stimuli may counteract or facilitate these effects (Schindler,
Katz, Goldberg, in press).
The response produced in relation to environmental correlates
may differ qualitatively from the direct drug effect. For instance, the
direct effect of a drug may be a heart rate increase, whereas the
conditioned or learned response to drug.associated stimuli may be
either a decrease or an increase in heart rate. Changes may be
particularly evident for agents with biphasie effects such as nicotine.
Whatever the direction of change in response value, the events may
be of physiological and behavioral significance (for example, see
Childreas, McLellan, O'Brien 1986a,b; O'Brien, Ehrman, Ternes
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