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A disproportionate number of people with #Schizophrenia smoke vs the general population. Are they self-medicating with nicotine? Can #SaferNicotine products help them stop smoking?
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A high strength nicotine e-cigarette has the potential to help people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders to quit or reduce smoking.
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Cognitive and early sensory alterations are core features of schizophrenia. A single dose of nicotine can improve those features in patients.

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Attention domain is the most responsive to nicotine in patients. Effects vary upon type of neuropsychological assessment and nicotine intake condition.

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Tobacco cigarette smoking represents an attempt at self-medication in schizophrenia, because the additional nicotine so provided alleviates the hypofunctional sensory gating seen in this illness.

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