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Abstract Addiction is a medical condition characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences (Angres & Bettinardi-Angres, 2008). It is considered a disorder of the brain’s reward system which arises through transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms and occurs over time from chronically high levels of exposure to an addictive stimulus (Ruffle, 2014). Recently, there has been an interesting clinical and scientific shift in perspective with many believing that addiction should encompass the compulsive engagement in activities such as smoking, Internet use, and gaming, in addition to its conventional relation with pharmacologic rewards (Grant et al., 2006). Many studies have been completed to try to ascertain the prevalence of substance and behavioral addictions and the co-occurrence of two or more addictions. All of them suggested that addictions are sharing a similar neurobiological vulnerability. This study is considered a comparative observational cross sectional study aiming to assess the frequency of nicotine dependence, food addiction and eating disorders among the selected sample. Also, it is aiming to assess the essential risk factors on food addiction, eating disorders and nicotine dependence. Finally, it aims also to compare the frequency and co-occurrence of food addiction and Summary (108) eating disorders versus nicotine dependence among the selected sample. All subjects of the study were compared according to Socioeconomic Status scale, Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence, Yale Food Addiction Scale and Eating Disorder Examination Scale. There were also other questions describing the pattern of tobacco smoking. It was found that the frequency of nicotine dependence is within (and sometimes less than) the global prevalence found in recent studies through the different forms of tobacco smoking. Meanwhile, food addiction and eating disorders are currently with in previous Egyptian studies. It was found that gender, type of faculty and socioeconomic status play an effective role in severity of nicotine dependence and food addiction however they are not related to eating disorders. However age as a risk factor couldn`t be assessed due to the narrow age range between the students. It was found that there is positive correlation between food addiction, eating disorders with nicotine dependence which proves that addictions are sharing a similar neurobiological vulnerability. |