Chunk #35 — Suggested Criteria for the Assessment of Tobacco Dependence — Rationale for Included Criteria — Criteria 3 & 4: Time to first cigarette (TTFC) after waking, and usual number of cigarettes consumed per day (cpd)
Does the person spend a great deal of time in activities in order to get or use tobacco (e.g., chain-smoking, moving to locations where smoking is permitted, making efforts to buy cigarettes, getting money for cigarettes,), or recover from its effects (get over illness)?