Some questions on cigarette smoking

The present Survey is aimed at investigating cigarette smoking in healthy volunteers. For this purpose, we will ask you information on your age, gender, race/ethnicity, nationality, education, working activity, smoking history. Moreover, you will be asked to answer some questions on your knowledge and use of some diagnoses on cigarette smoking. In the present Survey, the ethical rules of research have been respected. The participation to the Survey is voluntary and free. You may decide to abandon it in any moment simply closing the window of the webpage without any penalty.
The information obtained from this study will be safely stored and anonymity will be warranted in case they will be used for research purposes. However, the upload of your data in internet may be intercepted by third parties (e.g., hackers) and for this reason the uploading of your data might be not completely safe.
The present Survey needs around 5 minutes to be completed.

If you want to participate to the Survey, please go to the second question.

If you don't want to participate to the Survey, please click here to go back to ICANS home page.

Required Question

	I understood the condition of the research, I am of age, and I want freely to participate to the Survey.
	I don't want to participate to the Survey.

1. Which is your date of birth? Required Question

2. Which is your gender? Required Question

	Male
	Female

3. Which is your ethnicity/race? Required Question

4. Which is your nationality? Required Question

5. Which is your education? Required Question

6. Which is your job? Required Question

7. If you are a medical doctor, which is your specialty?

8. Do you currently smoke? Required Question

	Yes
	No

a. If yes, how many cigarettes per day do you currently smoke?

b. If yes, for how many years have you smoked in your life?

9. Have you ever smoked in the life? Required Question

	Yes
	No

a. If yes, for how many years did you smoke in your life?

10. How do you consider cigarette smoking? Required Question

	an habit of life
	a risk factor for smoking related disorders
	a disorder

11. Do you know the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) diagnostic criteria for nicotine dependence? Required Question

	Yes
	No

12. Do you know the ICD (International Classification of Diseases) diagnostic criteria for tobacco dependence? Required Question

	Yes
	No

13. How often do you use the diagnosis of current nicotine dependence in your daily clinical practice when you visit a current smoker? Required Question

14. How often do you use the diagnosis of current tobacco dependence in your daily clinical practice when you visit a current smoker? Required Question

15. How often do you use the diagnosis of lifetime nicotine dependence in your daily clinical practice when you visit a former smoker? Required Question

16. How often do you use the diagnoiss of lifetime tobacco dependence in your daily clinical practice when you visit a former smoker? Required Question

17. How do you perceive the risk related to the use of nicotine/tobacco if compared to the risk related to the use of caffeine? Required Question

	higher
	equal
	lower

18. How do you perceive the risk related to the use of nicotine/tobacco if compared to the risk related to the use of alcohol? Required Question

	higher
	equal
	lower

19. How do you perceive the risk related to the use of nicotine/tobacco if compared to the risk related to the use of cannabis?
Required Question

	higher
	equal
	lower

20. How do you perceive the risk related to the use of nicotine/tobacco if compared to the risk related to the use of cocaine?
Required Question

	higher
	equal
	lower

21. How do you perceive the risk related to the use of nicotine/tobacco if compared to the risk related to the use of heroin? Required Question

	higher
	equal
	lower

22. How do you perceive the risk related to the use of nicotine/tobacco if compared to the risk related to the use of drugs which can cause addiction (e.g., benzodiazepines)? Required Question

	higher
	equal
	lower

23. How often, in your daily clinical practice, do you recommend a current smoker to stop smoking? Required Question

24. How often, in your daily clinical practice, do you recommend a former smoker not to start again smoking? Required Question

	White/Caucasian
	Black/African-American
	Asian
	Latino
	American Indian/Alaska Native
	Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
	Other/Multi-Racial
	Decline to Respond
	Other

	Graduation
	Post graduation Master
	Post graduation residency
	PhD
	Other

	<5
	5-10
	10-15
	15-20
	>20

	never
	rarely
	sometimes
	often
	always

	never
	rarely
	sometimes
	ofetn
	always