Addictive Threshold of Nicotine

Inclusion Criteria:

• to contact their primary care provider when necessary.

• Adults, aged 21 to 59 years. Individuals less than 21 will be excluded because theminimum age for purchasing tobacco products is 21 in our state. The upper age is setat 59 because there are no previous IV nicotine studies that enrolled smokers overthe age of 59.

• Smoking at least for one year and more frequently than once a week, smoking statusconfirmed with a semi-quantitative urine nicotine test. Smokers will be stratifiedbased on the level of dependence, assessed with the FTND scores (Heatherton et al.

1991. (low or no dependence 4 and moderate or high level of dependence 5.

• In good health as verified by medical history, screening examination, and screeninglaboratory tests.

• For women, report using acceptable birth control methods.

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of major medical or psychiatric disorders that the physician investigatordeems as contraindicated for the participant to be in the study

• regular current use of certain psychotropic medications (such as mood stabilizers,antipsychotics, or anxiolytics being prescribed to treat bipolar disorder, psychosisor anxiety spectrum disorders, respectively)

• current untreated alcohol or substance use disorder for any other recreational orprescription drugs other than nicotine

• for women, pregnant as determined by pregnancy screening, or breastfeeding

• seeking (or undergoing) treatment for tobacco dependence or smoking.