Combined Smoking Cues Enhance Reactivity and Predict Immediate Subsequent Smoking.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cue reactivity (CR) research has reliably demonstrated robust cue-induced responding among smokers exposed to common proximal smoking cues (eg, cigarettes, lighter). More recent work demonstrates that distal stimuli, most notably the actual environments in which smoking previously occurred, can also gain associative control over craving. In the real world, proximal cues always occur within an environment; thus, a more informative test of how cues affect smokers might be to present these two cue types simultaneously.

Methods

Using a combined-cue counterbalanced CR paradigm, the present study tested the impact of proximal (smoking and neutral) + personal environment (smoking and nonsmoking places) pictorial cues, on smokers' subjective and behavioral CR; as well a

SUBMITTER: Conklin CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6329405 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature