Chunk #26 — Potential Biological Mechanisms Contributing to Chronic Cigarette Smoking-Induced Neurocognitive and Neurobiological Dysfunction — Indirect Mechanisms

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Chronic cigarette smoking: implications for neurocognition and brain neurobiology.

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Chronic smoking is also associated with central obesity (often reflected in increased body mass index; BMI) and/or insulin resistance [145], which, in turn, are reported to adversely affect brain neurobiology [146–149] and neurocognition [146,150].