Nicholas Felicione
PhD
Research Topics
Tobacco use behaviors and product characteristics; electronic cigarettes and alternative tobacco products; nicotine exposure and dependence; tobacco regulatory science; physiological and subjective response to tobacco products
Selected publications
- Felicione, N. J., Rivera, C., & O’Connor, R. J. (In review). Meta-analysis of puff topography patterns with nicotine vaping products: Implications for regulatory science. Frontiers in Public Health.
- O’Connor, R. J., Schneller, L. M., Felicione, N. J., Talhout, R., Goniewicz, M. L., & Ashley, D. L. (In review). Evolution of tobacco products: Recent history and future directions. Tobacco Control.
- Douglas, A. E., Childers M. G., Room, K. F., Felicione, N. J., Ozga, J. E., & Blank, M. D. (In revision). Device features and user behaviors as predictors of dependence among never smoking electronic cigarette users: Results from PATH Wave 4. Addictive Behaviors.
- Felicione, N. J., Douglas A., McClernon F. J., & Blank, M. D. (In revision). Preliminary evaluation of short-term abstinence effects among never-smoking experienced electronic cigarette users. Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
- Enlow P. T., Felicione, N. J., Williford D. N., Durkin, K., Blank, M. D., & Duncan, C. L. (Revision in review). Validation of the Electronic Cigarette Expectancy Scale for Adolescents. Substance Use and Misuse.
- Ozga, J. E, Felicione, N. J., Douglas, A. E., Childers, M., & Blank, M. D. (2021). Electronic cigarette terminology: Where does one generation end and the next begin? Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntab164.
- Felicione, N. J., Ozga, J. E., Dino, G., Berry, J. H., Sullivan, C. R., & Blank, M. D. (2021). Timing of smoking cessation treatment integrated into outpatient treatment with medications for opioid use disorder: Feasibility trial. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2021.108579.
- Felicione, N. J., Cummings, K. M., Gravely, S., Hammond, D., McNeill, A., Borland, R., Fong, G. T., & O’Connor, R. J. (2021). “Don’t Know” responses for nicotine vaping product features among adult vapers: Findings from the 2018 and 2020 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(15), 7928. doi:10.3390/ijerph18157928.
- Felicione, N. J., Fix, B. V., McNeill, A., Cummings, K. M., Goniewicz, M. L., Hammond, D., Borland, R., Heckman, B. W., Bansal-Travers, M., Gravely, S., Hitchman, S. C., Levy, D., Fong, G. T., & O’Connor, R. J. (2021). Characteristics and changes over time of nicotine vaping products used by vapers in the 2016 and 2018 ITC Four Country Smoking and Vaping Surveys. Tobacco Control. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056239.
- Ozga-Hess, J. E., Warren, C., Haliwa, I., Felicione, N. J., Ferguson, S. G., Dino, G., & Blank, M. D. (2021). Measurement of cigarette smoking: Comparisons of global self-report, returned cigarette filters, and ecological momentary assessment. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1037/pha0000449.
- Felicione, N. J., Norton, K. J., Bansal-Travers, M., Rees, V. W., Cummings, K. M., & O’Connor, R. J. (2021). Smokers’ perceptions of different classes of cigarette brand descriptors. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 7, 9. doi:10.18332/tpc/131243.
- Felicione, N. J., Ozga-Hess, J. E., Ferguson, S. G., Dino, G., Kuhn, S., Haliwa, I., & Blank, M. D. (2021). Cigarette smokers’ concurrent use of smokeless tobacco: dual use patterns and nicotine exposure. Tobacco Control, 30, 24-29. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055345
- Felicione, N. J., Karaoghlanian, N., Shihadeh, A., Eissenberg, T., & Blank, M. D. (2020). Comparison of measurement methods for electronic cigarette puff topography. Tobacco Regulatory Science, 6(5), 318-330. doi:10.18001/TRS.6.5.2.
- Ozga-Hess, J. E., Romm, K. F., Felicione, N. J., Dino, G., Blank, M. D., & Turiano, N. A. (2020). Personality and impulsivity as predictors of tobacco use among emerging adults: A latent class analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 163, 110076. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2020.110076.
- Blank, M. D., Pearson, J., Cobb, C. O., Felicione, N. J., Hiler, M., Spindle, T. R., & Breland, A. B. (2020). What factors reliably predict electronic cigarette nicotine delivery? Tobacco Control, 29, 644-651. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055193.
- Ozga-Hess, J. E., Nicholas, N. J., Ferguson, S. G., Dino, G., Elswick, D., Whitworth, C., Turiano, N., & Blank, M. D. (2019). Piloting a clinical laboratory method to evaluate the influence of potential modified risk tobacco products on smokers’ quit attempt choice and behavior. Addictive Behaviors, 99, 106105. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2019.106105.
- Felicione, N. J., Enlow, P., Elswick, D., Long, D., Sullivan, C. R., & Blank, M. D. (2019). A pilot investigation of the effect of electronic cigarettes on smoking behavior among opioid-dependent smokers. Addictive Behaviors, 91, 45-50. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.07.003.
- Ozga, J., Felicione, N., Blank, M., & Turiano, N. (2018). Cigarette smoking duration mediates the association between future thinking and norepinephrine level. Addictive Behaviors, 87, 33-38. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.06.004.
- Ozga, J. E., Felicione, N. J., Elswick, D., & Blank, M. D. (2018). Acute effects of snus in never-tobacco users: a pilot study. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 44, 113-119. doi:10.1080/00952990.2016.1260581.