Nicholas Felicione

PhD

Nicholas Felicione, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior.

Nicholas Felicione

PhD

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

Overview Publications

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.