Craving, Cue Reactivity, and Stimulus Control Among Early-Stage Young Smokers: Effects of Smoking Intensity and Gender

Carpenter, Matthew J.; Saladin, Michael E.; LaRowe, Steven D.; McClure, Erin A.; Simonian, Susan J.; Upadhyaya, Himanshu P.; Gray, Kevin M.

doi:10.1093/ntr/ntt147

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“…Concerning cue reactivity, results are inconsistent. Some studies reported that women seemed more sensible to cues [33], others reported that men were [41], whereas others did not find any difference [42]. More investigations are needed on this topic.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…pictures of glasses of beer or cigarette packs). For example, for alcohol cue and cravings to smoke, Carpenter et al [33] showed that daily smokers reported a higher response to alcohol visual cue rather than occasional smokers. Polydrug use has been well studied for alcohol and tobacco use [34], and we know that cigarette smoking increases during alcohol self-administration and vice versa [35].…”

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Simultaneous use of Alcohol, Tobacco and Cannabis in Relation to Severity of Substance Dependence: A Study among Young Swiss Men

Baggio¹

2014

J Addict Res Ther

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Objective: This study investigated patterns of the simultaneous use of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis among young polydrug users, and whether use of one substance might be a cue for use of another and associations with the severity of substance dependence. Methods:The study focused on 3 subsamples from the ongoing Swiss Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors (C-SURF, N=5,990). It used 12 months of data on alcohol/tobacco co-users, alcohol/cannabis co-users and tobacco/cannabis co-users (N=2,660, 1,755 and 1,460 respectively. Simultaneous use, numbers of symptoms of substance dependence, and hazardous use of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis were assessed. The effect of simultaneous polydrug use (SPU) on the numbers of symptoms of substance dependence was tested using analysis of variance.Results: Polydrug use was most common as SPU, and less common as non/occasional SPU. Moreover, when participants started to use one substance while using another, the severity of substance dependence was more strongly associated with the triggered substance than with cue. Conclusions:This study highlights the necessity to take SPU into account. First, SPU rather than separate drug use was the most common pattern for polydrug users. Second, frequent SPU was associated with increased numbers of symptoms of substance dependence compared to non/occasional SPU. Furthermore, SPU may reveal the severity of substance use dependence, when substance use is triggered by a cue substance. For these reasons, SPU should be a serious cause for concern for prevention and intervention purposes.

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Simultaneous use of Alcohol, Tobacco and Cannabis in Relation to Severity of Substance Dependence: A Study among Young Swiss Men

Baggio¹

2014

J Addict Res Ther

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“…9 Laboratory cue-reactivity studies have examined men's and women's responses to cues, with mixed results. Some studies suggest that women exhibit greater craving in response to smoking cues, 6,11,12,13 while a larger study of 207 smokers who completed over 1,000 reactivity sessions found no gender differences in cue effects on craving and smoking.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender and Stimulus Control of Smoking Behavior

Ferguson

Frandsen

Dunbar

et al. 2015

Nicotine & Tobacco Research

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Introduction: Gender differences in smoking behavior have been proposed to account for poorer outcomes among women attempting to quit. Specifically, it has been suggested that women's smoking behavior is less motivated by nicotine-seeking and more driven by environmental cues. To date, however, few real-world studies have examined the hypothesis that women's smoking is under greater stimulus control. Methods: One hundred and ninety four daily smokers (men = 107; women = 87) completed 3 weeks of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) monitoring that provided data on real-world smoking behavior by reporting on situational contexts shown by previous research to influence smoking behavior (including social setting, cigarette availability, alcohol consumption, and mood). Results: Analyses of particular cues found few gender differences; however, men's smoking increased to a greater extent compared with women's when they were with others who were smoking. Idiographic analyses that allow individual subjects to have different directions of linkage to situational cues also were conducted to assess how predictable subjects' smoking was from a range of contextual characteristics. Compared with women, men's smoking was significantly more closely tied to food/alcohol consumption and tended to be more closely tied to social context. No other gender differences were found. Conclusions: EMA analyses suggest that men and women are similarly influenced by cues, including mood. Where there were gender differences, it was men rather than women whose smoking behavior was more influenced by cues. The data contradict the hypothesis that women's smoking is more influenced by cues.

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“…There are gender differences in reactivity to cues; for example, females express greater craving in response to smoking-related cues when compared to men (Knott et al, 2008;Tong, Bovbjerg, & Erblich, 2007). Previous research has also found that females show higher sensitivity than males to negative emotional cues (Carpenter et al, 2014;Colamussi, Bovbjerg, & Erblich, 2007;Saladin et al, 2012;Wray et al, 2015). There are other factors that have been related to greater craving for cigarettes, including younger age, higher nicotine dependence and symptoms of anxiety (García-Rodríguez et al, 2011;Sayette, Martin, Wertz, Shiffman, & Perrott, 2001;ThompsonLake et al, 2014;Watson et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%