Raymond S Niaura
Raymond S Niaura
Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Professional overview
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Dr. Raymond Niaura is a psychologist and an expert on tobacco dependence and treatment, as well as substance use and addiction to alcohol. Dr. Niaura researches the biobehavioral substrates of tobacco dependence, including factors that influence adolescent and early adult tobacco use trajectories. He also evaluates behavioral and pharmacological treatments for tobacco cessation, with a particular interest in cessation in disadvantaged population to address public health disparities in tobacco-related burdens of illness and disability.
For eight year, Dr. Niaura was the Director of Science and Training at the Schroeder Institute (SI) for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies at the Truth Initiative, where he also supervised the pre- and post-doctoral training programs. Dr. Niaura has previously taught and conducted research at Brown University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Georgetown Medical Center, and the School of Public Health at University of Maryland. He was also a former President of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and is a Deputy Editor of the Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
With grants from the National Institutes of Health, numerous foundations, and private industry, Dr. Niaura has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries, and book chapters, including the book The Tobacco Dependence Treatment Handbook: A Guide to Best Practices.
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Education
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BA, Psychology (First Class Honors), McGill University, Montreal, CanadaMS, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJPhD, Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
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Honors and awards
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Research Laureate, American Academy of Health Behavior (2009)University Scholar Award, McGill University (1979)
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Areas of research and study
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Alcohol, Tobacco and Driving PoliciesEvaluationsHealth DisparitiesSubstance AbuseTobacco Control
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Publications
Publications
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms and smoking patterns among participants in a smoking-cessation program
Failed retrieving data.Cognitive Avoidance as a Method of Coping with a Provocative Smoking Cue : The Moderating Effect of Nicotine Dependence
Failed retrieving data.Cognitive-behavioral treatment for depression in smoking cessation
Failed retrieving data.Does completing a craving questionnaire promote increased smoking craving? An experimental investigation
Failed retrieving data.Effect of different cue stimulus delivery channels on craving reactivity : Comparing in vivo and video cues in regular cigarette smokers
Failed retrieving data.How Do Adolescents Process Smoking and Antismoking Advertisements? A Social Cognitive Analysis with Implications for Understanding Smoking Initiation
Failed retrieving data.Individual differences in responses to the first cigarette following overnight abstinence in regular smokers
Failed retrieving data.Influence of antidepressant pharmacotherapy on behavioral treatment adherence and smoking cessation outcome in a combined treatment involving fluoxetine
Failed retrieving data.Influences of gender and weight gain on short-term relapse to smoking in a cessation trial
Failed retrieving data.Maternal transmission of nicotine dependence : Psychiatric, neurocognitive and prenatal factors
Failed retrieving data.Naltrexone and cue exposure with coping and communication skills training for alcoholics : Treatment process and 1-year outcomes
Failed retrieving data.Promoting smoking cessation in the rehabilitation setting
Failed retrieving data.Sex differences in cardiovascular reactivity to physical appearance and performance challenges
Failed retrieving data.Smoking
Failed retrieving data.Statistical analysis of randomized trials in tobacco treatment : Longitudinal designs with dichotomous outcome
Failed retrieving data.Stopping smoking : A hazard for people with a history of major depression?
Failed retrieving data.Sustained-release bupropion for pharmacologic relapse prevention after smoking cessation : A randomized, controlled trial
Failed retrieving data.Symptoms of depression and survival experience among three samples of smokers trying to quit
Failed retrieving data.The development of a decisional balance measure of physician smoking cessation interventions
Failed retrieving data.The prevalence of cigarette smoking in an acute inpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation population
Failed retrieving data.An idiographic approach to understanding personality structure and individual differences among smokers
Failed retrieving data.Are adolescent smokers dependent on nicotine? A review of the evidence
Failed retrieving data.Cognitive social learning and related perspectives on drug craving
Failed retrieving data.Combined affects of exercise and smoking cessation on serum lipids in women
Failed retrieving data.Comorbidity, smoking behavior and treatment outcome
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