nicotine addiction
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- noun
- /ˈnɪkəˌtiːn əˈdɪkʃən/
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adicción a la nicotina
- After many failed attempts, he finally sought help to overcome his nicotine addiction.
- nicotine addiction and smoking
Examples
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Understanding nicotine addiction and smoking behavior was also hindered by the tobacco industry's efforts to suppress its own internal research.
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Yet, despite the call for more research and the warnings of scientists such as Jarvik and Wynder, it would be another decade before federal research funders and public health scientists created an organized research program around smoking dependence and nicotine addiction.
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For Brian Malloy, Chantix to help beat his nicotine addiction.
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Humans are vulnerable to nicotine addiction, and the most marketable form of nicotine delivery is the most harmful.
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Previous studies have demonstrated that smoking frequency and nicotine addiction are higher among men than women (Kay & Illi, 2002).
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However, public health scientists were hindered in their ability to evaluate the population impact of the reduced tar strategy by a limited understanding of nicotine addiction.
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Some reported that these products were ineffective as quit aids because "they all have nicotine," and they did not believe that one can treat nicotine addiction with nicotine.
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According to the suit, Huang applied for and received $378,750 in NIH funds in 2008 to support his research on the genetics of nicotine addiction and smoking behavior.
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For example, widely prevailing conditions such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, nicotine addiction, alcohol and drug abuse, HIV infection, and depression are all chronic.
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During the tobacco wars two decades ago, when lawsuits were filed all over the country in an attempt to recover the medical costs associated with nicotine addiction, pirated copies of internal tobacco company memos arrived at the archives at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.
Academic text (2011)
How Addicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines a specific substance noun ('nicotine') with a general state noun ('addiction'), so the meaning 'dependence on nicotine' is directly and transparently derivable from the constituents. This is a regular noun–noun compositional pattern (substance + dependence) common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase nicotine addiction comes from nicotine, the drug in tobacco that makes the brain want more, and addiction, which means being 'dependent' or 'hooked' on something. So it means 'dependence on nicotine'.