Behavioral and neural markers of cigarette-craving regulation in young-adult smokers during abstinence and after smoking.

ABSTRACT: Cigarette craving contributes substantially to the maintenance of tobacco use disorder. Behavioral strategies to regulate craving may facilitate smoking cessation but remain underexplored. We adapted an emotion-regulation strategy, using proximal/distal self-positioning, to the context of cigarette craving to examine craving regulation in 42, daily smokers (18-25 years old). After overnight abstinence from smoking, before and after smoking their first cigarette of the day, participants viewed videos of natural scenes presenting young adults who were either smoking cigarettes ("smoke") or not ("non-smoke"). Before each video, participants were instructed to imagine themselves either immersed in the scene ("close") or distanced from it ("far"). They rated their craving after each video. Task

SUBMITTER: Ghahremani DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5983538 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature