About the Authors
- Robert E. Featherstone
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Jennifer M. Phillips
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Affiliation Department of Psychology, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland, United States of America
- Tony Thieu
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Richard S. Ehrlichman
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Tobias B. Halene
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Steven C. Leiser
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Affiliation AstraZeneca, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
- Edward Christian
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Affiliation AstraZeneca, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
- Edwin Johnson
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Affiliation AstraZeneca, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America
- Caryn Lerman
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Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Steven J. Siegel
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* E-mail: siegels@upenn.edu
Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have the following interests. Steven Leiser, Edward Christian and Edwin Johnson are former employees of AstraZeneca who provided a pilot grant for this study. Steven Siegel has been a consultant and/or has received grant support from the following companies that develop and/or market medications: NuPathe, AstraZeneca, and Merck, all unrelated to the current manuscript. Caryn Lerman has been a consultant and/or has received grant support from the following companies that develop and/or market smoking cessation medications: AstraZeneca, Glaxo SmithKline, Novartis and Pfizer, all unrelated to the current manuscript. AstraZeneca supplied AZD3480 for use in this study. There are no other patents, products in development or other marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RF JP RE TH SL EC EJ JS. Analyzed the data: RF JP TT TH EJ EC JS. Wrote the paper: RF JP TT JS. Obtained funding for the experiments: SS CL.