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Overview

John R. Hughes is affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and psychology, with particular attention to smoking behavior and cessation, obesity, physical activity, diet, and behavioral health and interventions. Their work also covers subfields such as physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, applied psychology, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and broader health topics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research published in the following venues:

  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • Preventive Medicine
  • Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • JAMA Network Open
  • American Journal on Addictions

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Stephen T. Higgins
  • Sarah H. Heil
  • Janice Y. Bunn
  • Elias M. Klemperer
  • Jennifer W. Tidey

Recent publications authored or coauthored by John R. Hughes are:

  • Changes in Cigarette Consumption With Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes Among Smokers With Psychiatric Conditions or Socioeconomic Disadvantage (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • Initial Information on a Novel Nicotine Product (2020, American Journal on Addictions)
  • Predictors of Smoking Cessation Attempts and Success Following Motivation-Phase Interventions Among People Initially Unwilling to Quit Smoking (2020, Nicotine & Tobacco Research)
  • Tobacco and Nicotine Use Among US Adult "Never Smokers" in Wave 4 (2016-2018) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (2021, Nicotine & Tobacco Research)
  • Possible New Symptoms of Tobacco Withdrawal III: Reduced Positive Affect-A Review and Meta-analysis (2020, Nicotine & Tobacco Research)

Best Publications

  • Antidepressants for smoking cessation

    John R Hughes;Lindsay F Stead;Jamie Hartmann‐Boyce;Kate Cahill

  • Signs and Symptoms of Tobacco Withdrawal

    John R. Hughes;Dorothy Hatsukami

  • Shape of the relapse curve and long-term abstinence among untreated smokers

    John R. Hughes;Josue Keely;Shelly Naud

  • Mapping the impact of patient and public involvement on health and social care research: a systematic review

    Jo Brett;Sophie Staniszewska;Carole Mockford;Sandra Herron-Marx

  • Prevalence of smoking among psychiatric outpatients.

    John R. Hughes;Dorothy K. Hatsukami;James E. Mitchell;Lisa A. Dahlgren

  • Measures of abstinence in clinical trials: issues and recommendations.

    John R. Hughes;Josue P. Keely;Ray S. Niaura;Deborah J. Ossip-Klein

  • Effects of Abstinence From Tobacco: Valid Symptoms and Time Course

    John R. Hughes

  • Antidepressants for smoking cessation.

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  • A systematic review of the impact of patient and public involvement on service users, researchers and communities.

    Jo Brett;Sophie Staniszewska;Carole Mockford;Sandra Herron-Marx

  • A behavioral approach to achieving initial cocaine abstinence.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Dawn D. Delaney;Alan J. Budney;Warren K. Bickel

  • Achieving cocaine abstinence with a behavioral approach.

    Stephen T. Higgins;Alan J. Budney;Warren K. Bickel;John R. Hughes

  • EAU guidelines on chronic pelvic pain

    Magnus Fall;Andrew P. Baranowski;Sohier Elneil;Daniel Engeler

  • Review of the Validity and Significance of Cannabis Withdrawal Syndrome

    Alan J. Budney;John R. Hughes;Brent A. Moore;Ryan Vandrey

  • Symptoms of Tobacco Withdrawal: A Replication and Extension

    John R. Hughes;Steven W. Gust;Kelli Skoog;Robert M. Keenan

  • Tobacco withdrawal in self-quitters.

    John R. Hughes

  • Recent advances in the pharmacotherapy of smoking.

    John R. Hughes;Michael G. Goldstein;Richard D. Hurt;Saul Shiffman

  • The time course and significance of cannabis withdrawal.

    Alan J. Budney;Brent A. Moore;Ryan G. Vandrey;John R. Hughes

  • Stress-Induced Modulation of the Immune Response to Recombinant Hepatitis B Vaccine

    Ronald Glaser;Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser;Robert H. Bonneau;William Malarkey

  • Marijuana withdrawal among adults seeking treatment for marijuana dependence

    Alan J. Budney;Pamela L. Novy;John R. Hughes

  • Nicotine dependence versus smoking prevalence: comparisons among countries and categories of smokers

    K O Fagerström;M Kunze;R Schoberberger;N Breslau;N Breslau

  • Nicotine withdrawal versus other drug withdrawal syndromes: similarities and dissimilarities

    John R. Hughes;Stephen T. Higgins;Warren K. Bickel

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen T. Higgins
Stephen T. Higgins University of Vermont
Warren K. Bickel
Warren K. Bickel Virginia Tech
Dorothy K. Hatsukami
Dorothy K. Hatsukami University of Minnesota
Saul Shiffman
Saul Shiffman University of Pittsburgh
Roy W. Pickens
Roy W. Pickens National Institute on Drug Abuse
Matthew J. Carpenter
Matthew J. Carpenter Medical University of South Carolina
Jennifer W. Tidey
Jennifer W. Tidey Brown University
Craig R. Rush
Craig R. Rush University of Kentucky
Gary J. Badger
Gary J. Badger University of Vermont
Maxine L. Stitzer
Maxine L. Stitzer Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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