Sherry McKee
Behavioral pharmacology researcher and associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, focusing on gender differences in smoking, stress, depression, and treatment development for nicotine addiction.
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Jan 13, 2014 • 11min
Women and smoking (SOP5)
Sherry McKee, a behavioral pharmacology researcher and Yale psychiatry professor who studies gender differences in smoking. She discusses why women struggle more to quit, including stress, mood and menstrual factors. Talks about tailoring treatments, noradrenergic targets like guanfacine, and how nicotine reduction policies and sensory cues may affect men and women differently.
