title: Tobacco use by narcoleptics and daytime sleep tendency.
abstract: The nocturnal sleep and daytime sleep tendency were assessed in 10 narcoleptics who regularly smoked cigarettes and 10 narcoleptics who did not use tobacco. Standard sleep-wake polygraphic measures were recorded during the 24-h study. There were no statistical differences between groups in terms of nighttime sleep structure, although tobacco use resulted in a decreased sleep duration. Smokers tended to fall asleep more rapidly than non-smokers throughout daytime multiple sleep latency testing. The data failed to demonstrate a daytime arousal effect of tobacco for patients with narcolepsy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal / Q000187:drug effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009290:Narcolepsy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011930:Reaction Time; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D012907:Smoking