Do smokers devaluate smoking cues after go/no-go training?

Scholten, Hanneke; Granic, Isabela; Chen, Zhang; Veling, Harm; Luijten, Maartje

doi:10.1080/08870446.2018.1554184

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“…Keeping in mind the complexity of human sexual experiences, these initial results showing that motor-response inhibition can reduce the capacity of sexual stimuli to elicit both subjective and physiological sexual response do provide a promising avenue for future research. Such investigations focusing on problematic sexual behavior would align well with recent research on the utility of inhibition-based tasks for devaluing motivationally-relevant stimuli to address disorders of self-control in overeating (e.g., Veling, Lawrence, Chen, van Koningsbruggen & Holland, 2017), problem gambling (Stevens et al, 2015), and alcohol and drug abuse (e.g., Houben, Nederkoorn, Wiers, & Jansen, 2011;Scholten, Granic, Chen, Veling, & Luijten, 2019). Thus, our findings that inhibition can impact later stages of sexual response converge with other recent discoveries to support the possibility that the affective consequences of inhibition may be effectively utilized in a variety of clinical applications.…”

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confidence: 56%

Stopped cold: Motor-response inhibition reduces the capacity of sexually-explicit stimuli to elicit subjective and physiological sexual arousal

Clancy¹,

Rl²,

Sa³

et al. 2020

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The motivational incentive of sexual stimuli can be a salient force in determining the focus of thought and behaviour. Here we show that the simple act of not pressing a key during the perception of sexual content reduces its motivational incentive and subsequent capacity to elicit sexual arousal. Undergraduate participants (N=116) completed a Go/No-go task that required them to inhibit responses to either sexual or non-sexual images. Later they watched sexually explicit videos and reported moment-to-moment changes in self-reported sexual arousal, while thermography was used to record changes in genital physiological arousal. Participants who previously inhibited sexual images experienced lower levels of both self-reported and physiological arousal than those who inhibited non-sexual images. These results extend prior research to suggest that a by-product of motor-response inhibition is a negative alteration of stimulus-value representations for associated items— the kind of value that drives even the most biologically-fundamental forms of motivated behaviour.

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confidence: 56%

Stopped cold: Motor-response inhibition reduces the capacity of sexually-explicit stimuli to elicit subjective and physiological sexual arousal

Clancy¹,

Rl²,

Sa³

et al. 2020

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“…Analogical explanations are also present in alcohol dependence studies [13]. As for smoking, the devaluation effect was clearly demonstrated in the study by Scholten and colleagues [19]. They arranged GNG training in which participants were instructed to refrain from responding to smokingrelated pictures after a predetermined acoustic signal.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…If the rst mechanism is dominant, the effects of training, if existent at all, should generalize on inhibitory control tasks that were not used during the training sessions. The second mechanism does not predict such transfer effects, but it should make the smoking-related stimuli less pleasant for participants who are asked to judge their value [19].…”

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confidence: 94%

Inhibitory Control Training (ICT) Reduces The Consumption of Nicotine Among Young, Healthy Female Smokers

Nęcka

Naskręt

2021

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Inhibitory control training (ICT) proved to be effective in the reduction of unhealthy food or alcohol consumption, but its efficacy in smoking reduction is hard to estimate due to the scarcity of relevant research. In our randomized controlled trial, the participants (N = 84) were recruited from the population of young healthy female smokers who were motivated to quit. The experimental group underwent an ICT procedure based on the Go/No Go paradigm. The predetermined stop signals (‘no go’ condition) were associated mostly with smoking-related pictures (90% consistency), whereas the response signals were associated with matched neutral pictures. There were two active control groups: the first had an equal proportion of neutral and smoking-related pictures in the ‘go’ and ‘no go’ trials; the second trained inhibitory control according to the same scheme as the experimental group, but the participants were not exposed to any smoking-related cues. All groups underwent 13 training sessions over 25 days. All participants completed a battery of questionnaires and cognitive tasks three times: before training, after its completion, and two months later. We found that all participants reduced the feeling of craving and devalued the smoking-related pictures. Since there were no between-group differences, these effects probably did not result from ICT. However, we found that the experimental group smoked significantly less cigarettes than the control groups; they also reduced the number of smoking days during the preceding 30-day period. The results suggest that extensive ICT training may serve as an effective method of reducing nicotine intake.

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“…Moreover, the continuous withholding of responses to attractive cues may also produce conflicts and negative affect, that eventually may lead to devaluation of the initial targeted cues. To date, several studies have shown evidence for lower evaluations of trained No-Go compared to Go and/or untrained pictures, interpreted as evidence for devaluation (Chen et al, 2016(Chen et al, , 2018aHouben et al, 2012;Quandt et al, 2019;Scholten et al, 2019;Veling et al, 2013). However, some recent studies found that the effects of Go/No-Go training were smaller for rewarding stimuli and stronger for aversive or neutral stimuli (Chen et al, 2019;De Pretto et al, 2019), which is in apparent contrast with a cue-devaluation mechanism of rewarding cues.…”

Section: Go/no-go Tasksmentioning

confidence: 98%

Targeting automatic processes to reduce unhealthy behaviours: a process framework

Larsen

Hollands

2021

Health Psychology Review

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While previous frameworks to address health behaviours through targeting underlying automatic processes have stimulated an improved understanding of related interventions, deciding between intervention strategies often remains essentially arbitrary and atheoretical. Making considered decisions has likely been hampered by the lack of a framework that guides the selection of different intervention strategies targeting automatic processes to reduce unhealthy behaviours. We propose a process framework to fulfil this need, building upon the process model of emotion regulation. This framework differentiates types of intervention strategies along the timeline of the unfolding automatic response, distinguishing between three broad classes of intervention strategiesdirect antecedent, indirect antecedent, and responsefocused. Antecedent-focused strategies aim to prevent the exposure to or activation of automatic responses directly through the avoidance of unwanted stimulus-response associations (i.e., situation modification or situation-specific response selection), or indirectly through automatising self-control (i.e., attentional deployment or cognitive change). Responsefocused strategies aim to directly downregulate automatic unwanted responses (i.e., response modulation). Three main working hypotheses derived from this process framework provide practical guidance for selecting interventions, but await direct testing in future studies.

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Do smokers devaluate smoking cues after go/no-go training?

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Stopped cold: Motor-response inhibition reduces the capacity of sexually-explicit stimuli to elicit subjective and physiological sexual arousal

Stopped cold: Motor-response inhibition reduces the capacity of sexually-explicit stimuli to elicit subjective and physiological sexual arousal

Inhibitory Control Training (ICT) Reduces The Consumption of Nicotine Among Young, Healthy Female Smokers

Targeting automatic processes to reduce unhealthy behaviours: a process framework

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