HYBRID EVENT: You can participate in person at Boston, Massachusetts, USA or Virtually from your home or work.
7th Edition of Global Conference on
Addiction Medicine, Behavioral Health and Psychiatry
October 19-21, 2026 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Smoking Addiction
Smoking Addiction
Addiction is nothing more than a person's physical and psychological reliance on a substance. And this nicotine reliance is referred to as a smoking addiction. Nicotine is a substance found in cigarettes that makes quitting difficult. Nicotine causes a fleetingly pleasurable impact on the brain, and this effect encourages smoking another cigarette and developing an addiction. Use of tobacco damages all of your body's organs. In addition to nicotine, smoking tobacco exposes your lungs, blood, and organs to more than 5,000 toxins, many of which are carcinogens (chemicals that cause cancer). Smoking-related harm can dramatically reduce your longevity. Risk factor of smoking includes:
- Cancer
- Heart diseases
- Pneumonia
- Hardening of the arteries
- Chronic lung disease and asthma
- Reduce fertility
- Stroke
- Blindness, etc.
Committee Members
Nile Stanley
University of North Florida, United States
Ann Marie Leonard Zabel
Curry College, United States
Edie Raether
NeuroShifts and Wings for Wishes Academy, United States GAB 2026 Speakers
Sindu Padmanabhan
Bharathiar University, India
Kayla Albers
Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School, United States
Jorja Jamison
Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School, United States
Andrew Drasen
A Vision of Hope Media, United StatesSubmit your abstract Today
Title : The Storm Within: Neuropsychological Insights into Dysregulation and Substance Use in the Adolescent Brain.
Ann Marie Leonard Zabel, Curry College, United States
Title : Sexualizing anxiety and anxiolytic sex: Misattribution of arousal
Sam Vaknin, CIAPS, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Title : Workplace and occupational mental health: Supporting well-being at work
Sindu Padmanabhan, Bharathiar University, India
Title : Resilience in counseling: Processing grief for the addictions counselor
Kayla Albers, Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School, United States
Title : Resilience in counseling: Processing grief for the addictions counselor
Jorja Jamison, Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School, United States
Title : Identity restoration as a missing variable in relapse prevention
Andrew Drasen, A Vision of Hope Media, United States