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- - Most smokers experience both psychological and physical addiction to tobacco or nicotine, leading to withdrawal symptoms when they don't smoke.
- - These withdrawal symptoms create significant challenges for individuals trying to quit smoking.
- - The Minnesota Withdrawal Symptoms Scale, updated in 2020, is a key tool for assessing withdrawal severity to inform treatment decisions; a validated translation of this revision is presented.
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Most smokers are addicted to tobacco or nicotine not only psychosocially but also physically, what results in withdrawal symptoms after they miss their dose. These are one of the major barriers to quitting. In the treatment of tobacco dependence, the evaluation of the degree of withdrawal symptoms helps to guide psychobehavioral intervention and, above all, the choice of the type, dose, and duration of pharmacotherapy. The Minnesota Withdrawal Symptoms Scale is one of the most widely used for this purpose, revised in 2020. We present a validated translation of this update.
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