Tobacco dependence is the most common disease in the world. The attitude of society towards smoking tobacco is a contradiction. Tobacco smoking was seen as a problem when they were found negative effects of its impact on human health. Background of smoking is increasing due to incomplete knowledge patobiologicheskoy basis of tobacco dependence and lack of professional knowledge and skills of medical assistance to persons wishing to stop smoking tobacco. Experts estimate that only 5% of people smoking tobacco, can independently stop smoking, 80% of people want to stop smoking, but they need special medical care. Lack of awareness of society in a given scientific problem has led to the concept of smoking (and in fact - for tobacco dependence) as a harmful habit, in which guilt was declared himself sick because he does not want to quit smoking. Modern medical science has classified tobacco dependence as a clinical disease requiring treatment by professional medical specialists.
Experts characterize tobacco addiction as a complex and heterogeneous structure of clinical pathology. Its roots on one side go to the constitutional premorbid features of mental activity of the brain, and the other lesser known areas of biochemical mechanisms underlying the disorders of desire. Phenomenologically tobacco dependence is characterized by loss of control in the field of thinking, "I" on the origin and termination of memories and perceptions, desires, re tobacco smoking with the simultaneous development of clinical syndrome, craving to smoke tobacco, withdrawal symptoms, remissions and relapses.
Tobacco dependence on the class V of ICD-10, adapted for use in Russia, is included in the section [F10-F19] "Mental and behavioral disorders related to (caused) the use of psychoactive substances" in heading (F1h.2) "dependency syndrome", in category (F17.3h) "Withdrawal of tobacco, and (F17.0h)" acute intoxication caused by tobacco use (acute nicotine intoxication). Tobacco does not refer to the "list of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors subject to control in the RF (Lists I, II, III)", and the absence of clinically Tobacco psychoorganic deficits symptoms and personality changes caused by tobacco use, defines a special place Tobacco among disorders instincts.
Tobacco dependence is diagnosed at up to 90% in those who smoke tobacco daily.
