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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Brian Hitsman is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on topics related to smoking behavior and cessation. Their research spans several subfields, including physiology, general health professions, clinical psychology, applied psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Hitsman's research covers diverse topics, with significant work in smoking behavior and cessation, behavioral health and interventions, studies of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, health systems, economic evaluations, quality of life assessments, mobile health and mHealth applications, as well as eating disorders and behaviors and cancer survivorship and care.

Some recent publications include:

  • Effectiveness and Ethics of Incentives for Research Participation (2021), published in JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Smoking Cessation, Version 3.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (2023), published in Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • Mixed-methods economic evaluation of the implementation of tobacco treatment programs in National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers (2021), published in Implementation Science Communications
  • Trends in smoking documentation rates in safety net clinics (2020), published in Health Services Research
  • Leveraging Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement via the Electronic Health Record to Connect Patients with Cancer to Smoking Cessation Treatment (2020), published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Brian Hitsman frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Robert A. Schnoll
  • Frank T. Leone
  • Erica Fox
  • Anna-Marika Bauer
  • Jackie K. Gollan

Publications by Hitsman frequently appear in journals such as Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Addictive Behaviors, Research Square, Implementation Science Communications, and JNCI Monographs.

In 2014, Brian Hitsman was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Best Publications

  • Tobacco Use and Cessation in Psychiatric Disorders: National Institute of Mental Health Report

    Douglas M. Ziedonis;Brian Hitsman;Jean C. Beckham;Michael Zvolensky

  • Early Life Stress and Morphometry of the Adult Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Caudate Nuclei

    Ronald A. Cohen;Stuart Grieve;Karin F. Hoth;Robert H. Paul

  • Parental Smoking and Adolescent Smoking Initiation: An Intergenerational Perspective on Tobacco Control

    Stephen E. Gilman;Richard Rende;Julie Boergers;Julie Boergers;David B. Abrams

  • History of depression and smoking cessation outcome: a meta-analysis.

    Brian Hitsman;Belinda Borrelli;Dennis E. McChargue;Bonnie Spring

  • Links between physical fitness and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to psychological stressors: A meta-analysis.

    Kathleen Forcier;Laura R. Stroud;George D. Papandonatos;Brian Hitsman

  • Cigarette smoking and depression comorbidity: systematic review and proposed theoretical model

    Amanda R. Mathew;Lee Hogarth;Adam M. Leventhal;Jessica W. Cook

  • A Twin Registry Study of the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Nicotine Dependence in Men

    Karestan C. Koenen;Brian Hitsman;Michael J. Lyons;Michael J. Lyons;Raymond Niaura

  • THE IMPACT OF EARLY LIFE STRESS ON PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL, PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIORAL MEASURES IN 740 NON-CLINICAL SUBJECTS

    Alexander C McFarlane;Christopher Richard Clark;Richard Bryant;Leanne M Williams

  • Past major depression and smoking cessation outcome: A systematic review and meta-analysis update

    Brian Hitsman;George D. Papandonatos;Dennis E. McChargue;Andrew Demott

  • Treatment of Tobacco Dependence in Mental Health and Addictive Disorders

    Brian Hitsman;Taryn G Moss;Ivan D Montoya;Tony P George

  • Effects of progression to cigarette smoking on depressed mood in adolescents: evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.

    Marcus R. Munafò;Brian Hitsman;Richard Rende;Chris Metcalfe

  • Behavioral intervention to promote smoking cessation and prevent weight gain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Bonnie Spring;Dorothea Howe;Mark Berendsen;H. Gene McFadden

  • Early life stress and adult emotional experience: an international perspective.

    Ronald A. Cohen;Brian L. Hitsman;Robert H. Paul;Jeanne McCaffery

  • Antidepressant pharmacotherapy helps some cigarette smokers more than others.

    B. Hitsman;R. Pingitore;B. Spring;A. Mahableshwarkar

  • A twin study of smoking, nicotine dependence, and major depression in men.

    Michael Lyons;Brian Hitsman;Hong Xian;Matthew S. Panizzon

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses of smoking behaviors in African Americans.

    S. P. David;S. P. David;S. P. David;A. Hamidovic;G. K. Chen;A. W. Bergen

  • Influences of gender and weight gain on short-term relapse to smoking in a cessation trial

    Belinda Borrelli;Bonnie Spring;Raymond Niaura;Brian Hitsman

  • Would smokers with schizophrenia benefit from a more flexible approach to smoking treatment

    Dennis E. McChargue;Suzy B. Gulliver;Brian Hitsman

  • Unhealthy behavior clustering and mental health status in United States college students

    Nancy Jao;Laura Robinson;Peter James Kelly;Christina Czart Ciecierski

  • The efficacy of smoking cessation interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Maxwell Oluwole Akanbi;Allison Jane Carroll;Chad Achenbach;Linda Catherine O'Dwyer

  • Social factors, psychopathology, and maternal smoking during pregnancy.

    Stephen E. Gilman;Joshua Breslau;S.V. Subramanian;Brian Hitsman

  • Measuring smoking-related preoccupation and compulsive drive: evaluation of the obsessive compulsive smoking scale

    Brian Hitsman;Biing Jiun Shen;Ronald A. Cohen;Sandra B. Morissette

Frequent Co-Authors

Bonnie Spring
Bonnie Spring Northwestern University
Belinda Borrelli
Belinda Borrelli Boston University
George D. Papandonatos
George D. Papandonatos Brown University
Tony P. George
Tony P. George Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Lee Hogarth
Lee Hogarth University of Exeter
Suzy B. Gulliver
Suzy B. Gulliver Scott & White Memorial Hospital
Laura R. Stroud
Laura R. Stroud Brown University
Lawrence H. Price
Lawrence H. Price Brown University
Michael J. Lyons
Michael J. Lyons Boston University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University

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