All the presentations and communications will be given in English. There will be simultaneous translation into Spanish for Round Tables, Symposiums and Debates


THURSDAY 3rd

16:00 h Secretariat: Distribution of Congress Documentation & New Registrations

17:00 h – 18:30 h - Global Network International Research Symposium (Room A)

Chairperson: Ovide F. Pomerleau.
Speakers:

Sameer Malhotra
Lenora C. Fernandez
João Carlos Dias Da Silva
Samer Jabbour

 

Objective: This symposium features presentations by four recipients of SRNT Global Network Travel Awards who will describe their own nicotine or tobacco-control research or review the state of such research in their country or region

18.30.- Opening Ceremony (*) (Paraninfo Room)

19.00.- Opening Conference: A discourse on cigarette smoking (*) (Paraninfo Room)

Chairperson: Karl O. Fagerström
Speaker:

Ovide Pomerleau

 

Objective: The main objective of this conference is to give an overview of scientific research in smoking.

FRIDAY 4th

09.00-11.00.- Round Table Discussion.- Looking for the best treatment for each smoker (*) (Paraninfo Room)

Chairperson: Eva Kralikova
Speakers:

Karl O. Fagerström
What diagnostic characteristics should we look for in smokers?

Robert West.
Nicotine Replacement Therapy

Martin Jarvis.
Bupropion

PeterHajek.
Behavioural therapy

 

Objective: To give some practical information about when and where, to whom and how to use the different pharmacological treatments of smoking

11.00-11.30.- Coffee Break – Commercial Exhibition

11.30-12.30.-Debate: Harm Reduction (*) (Paraninfo Room)

Chairperson: Carlos A. Jiménez-Ruiz
Speakers:

Pros: Philip Tønnesen
Cons: Richard Hurt

 

Objective: The chair will make a short introduction of the issue. Then each discussant will argue his position, followed by general discussion.

12.30-14.00.- Lunch - Poster Sesion I (Magdalena Palace)

   

14.15-15.15.- Oral Presentations (Paraninfo Room)

Chairs: David Balfour and Eva Kralikova

15.15-17.15.-Round Table Discussion. - Anti-smoking Activities in Europe (Room A)

Chairperson: Peter Andersson.
Speakers:

Joan Ramón Villalví
Prevention activities: the role of NGOs

H. Pardell
The role of local and regional governments

Enrique Gil
Legislative action on tobacco/nicotine in the EU

 

Objective: To provide an outline of current tobacco control activities

15.15-17.15.- Round Table Discussion: Vulnerability to tobacco dependence (*) (Paraninfo Room)

Chairperson: Dr. Andrew Johnston.
Speakers:

Michael Murphy
Genetics underlying tobacco dependence in humans

Allan C. Collins
Genetics underlying psychopharmacological responses to nicotine

David Balfour
Strain differences in mesoaccumbens dopamine responses to nicotine

Martin Jarvis
Socio-economic influences on tobacco dependence

Lirio Covey
The role of psychopathology on tobacco dependence

 

Objective: To provide an outline of innate and acquired factors affecting tobacco dependence

17.15-17.30.- Coffee Break – Commercial Exhibition

17.30-19.00.-Round table discussion: Preventing and treating relapse (*) (Room B)

Chairperson: Gay Sutherland.
Speakers:

José Ignacio Granda-Orive
Relapsing as a learning process

Elisardo Becoña
Psycho-social relapse prevention

Andrew Johnston
Pharmacological relapse prevention

 

Objective: To provide practical information on relapse and relapse-prevention.

17.30-19.00.-Round Table Discussion: Smoking cessation in special populations (*) (Room A)

Chairperson: Agneta Nordberg.
Speakers:

Peter Hajek
Treating pregnant smokers

Pedró J. Romero
Treating smokers with CVD

Karen Slama
Treating adolescents and children smokers

 

Objective: To provide practical information on approaches to special populations

 

17.30-19.00. Symposium: Basic research on nicotine (Paraninfo Room)

Chairperson: Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca
Speakers: Rafael Maldonado
Involvement of the endogenous opioid system in nicotine-induced antinociception, rewarding effects and dependence

Liana Fattore
Baclofen as a putative candidate in the pharmacotherapy of nicotine abuse: Pre-clinical behavioural and biochemical evidence

Athina Markou
Group II metabotropic and AMPA/kainate ionotropic glutamate receptors regulate the deficit in brain reward function associated
with nicotine withdrawal

Sakire Pogun
Sex differences in the central action of nicotine

 

Objective: To review recent advances in the central effects and mechanisms of action of nicotine

SATURDAY 5th

09.00-11.00.- Round table discussion: Pharmacological treatments for smokers: What´s new? (*) (Paraninfo Room)

Chairperson: Carlos Jiménez-Ruiz
Speakers:

Gay Sutherland
Characteristics of an ideal pharmacological treatment for smokers

Lirio Covey
Antidepressants

Torgny H. Svensson
Nicotine vaccine

Rodrigo Cordoba-García
Minimal intervention plus pharmacological treatment


Objective: To give an overview of recent research on pharmacological tools for tobacco dependence

11.00-11.30.- Coffee Break – Commercial Exhibition

11.30-12.30.-Debate: Higher doses of NRT? (Paraninfo Room)

Chairperson: Stefano Nardini.
Speakers:

Pros: Lowell Dale
Cons: Javier Ayesta

 

Objective: To review evidence related to higher doses of nicotine for treating smokers

12.30-14.00.- Lunch- Poster Sesion II (Magdalena Palace)

   

14.00-15.00.- Members Meeting (Paraninfo Room)

15.00-15.15.- Coffee Break – Commercial Exhibition

15.15-17.15.- Round Table Discussion: Smoke-free tobacco with special emphasis on the Swedish product “snus” (Room A)

Chairperson: Ann McNeill
Speakers:

Freddie Lewin
Swedish non-smoking tobacco (snus), cancer and cardiovascular disease

Freddie Lewin
Smoke-free tobacco and cardiovascular disease

Lars Ramströn
Patterns of use: A gate leading to smoking, or a way to give up?

Clive Bates
How should smoke-free tobacco be regulated

 

Objective: To give an overview on smoke-free tobacco

 

15.15-17.15.- Symposium: Brain imaging (Paraninfo Room)

Chairperson: Edythe D. London
Speakers:

Arthur L. Brody
Regional brain metabolic changes associated with cue-elicited cigarette craving

Jed E. Rose
Nicotinic influences on functional brain systems: PET studies with smokers

Elliot A
Stein Effects of Nicotine on Brain Attention Mechanisms

Alexey G. Mukhin
In vivo imaging of nicotinic receptors in human brain with SPECT and PET

 

Objective : To present functional brain imaging studies of responses to cigarette craving and nicotine, along with recent advances in the examination of nicotine receptors in the human brain in vivo

17.15.- Conclusions (*) (Paraninfo Room)
Coordinated by Scott Leischow

 


(*) Simultaneous translation English-Spanish will be available at these sessions.