Evaluation of the Brief Questionnaire of Smoking Urges in Black Light Smokers

Clausius, Rebecca L.; Krebill, Ron; Mayo, Matthew S.; Bronars, Carrie; Martin, Laura E.; Ahluwalia, Jasjit S.; Cox, Lisa Sanderson

doi:10.1093/ntr/ntr267

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“…The QSU-brief 12 is used in clinical settings and had been shortened from the 32-item QSU10. The QSU-brief has been used in numerous studies and it was demonstrated to have excellent reliability (Cronbach’s alpha=0.97) 21,22 . The QSU-brief consists of 10 items and respondents answer each item on a 7-point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree with higher scores indicating stronger urges.…”

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Development of a new craving index for anticipating quitting smoking in patients who undergo the Japanese smoking cessation therapy

Taniguchi¹,

Tanaka

Nakamura³

et al. 2019

Tob. Induc. Dis.

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INTRODUCTIONThe 10-item version of the Questionnaire of Smoking Urges (QSU-brief) has demonstrated excellent reliability. However, the QSU-brief may be too long to use in clinical settings. We developed a new craving index called the Tobacco Craving Index (TCI) and investigated how closely the TCI grade is associated with success of quitting smoking in Japanese smoking cessation therapy (SCT) patients.METHODSThe TCI questionnaire consists of two items: the first question asks about the strength of tobacco craving on a 4-point scale, and the second question asks about the frequency of tobacco craving per day on a 4-point scale. We conducted a prospective cohort study of 85 participants who underwent the Japanese SCT at a Japanese smoking cessation clinic. We administered the QSU-brief and TCI at each of the 5 sessions during the 12-week SCT.RESULTSSignificant correlations were observed between the TCI grade and QSU-brief score (r=0.27, 0.55, 0.72, 0.58 and 0.68, at the five sessions). The change in mean TCI grade showed a similar trend as the change in mean QSU-brief score among the 43 patients who succeeded in quitting smoking and also among the 7 patients who failed to quit smoking by the last session. Both TCI and QSU-brief assessed after the second session were significantly associated with the smoking status at the last session. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve for the success of quitting smoking in TCI grade was 0.615–0.881 at the 5 sessions, whereas it was 0.536–0.849 in QSU-brief score.CONCLUSIONSThe TCI can be used as a predictive tool for success of quitting smoking in the Japanese SCT. As the TCI consists of two questionnaire items, it can be easily administered in smoking cessation interventions.

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Development of a new craving index for anticipating quitting smoking in patients who undergo the Japanese smoking cessation therapy

Taniguchi¹,

Tanaka

Nakamura³

et al. 2019

Tob. Induc. Dis.

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“…This widely used measure is frequently used in studies with African Americans and has been validated with light African American smokers (Clausius et al, 2012). In the current sample, Cronbach’s alpha was: visit 1) α = .91; visit 2) α = .92; and visit 3) α = .94.…”

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Effect of attentional retraining on cognition, craving, and smoking in African American smokers.

Robinson¹,

Muench²,

Brede³

et al. 2017

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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African American cigarette smokers have lower rates of cessation than Whites and live in communities with a higher number of tobacco advertisements. Exposure to smoking cues may promote smoking and undermine cessation. It may be possible to reduce attention to smoking cues (“attentional bias”). In this study, we investigated the effect of Attentional re-training (AR) on attentional bias and smoking in African-American smokers. Non-treatment seeking African American smokers (N = 64) were randomly assigned to an AR or Control condition. Participants were given a mobile device for 2 weeks and prompted to complete up to three AR (or control) trainings per day. Participants completed assessments of attentional bias, craving, and smoking both in the lab and in the field. Participants in the AR and Control conditions completed an average of 29.07 AR (SD = 12.48) and 30.61 control training tasks (SD = 13.07), respectively. AR reduced attentional bias assessed in the laboratory, F (1,126) = 9.20, p = .003, and field, F (1, 374) = 6.18, p = .01. This effect generalized to new stimuli, but not to new tasks. AR did not significantly reduce craving or biological measures of smoking. Smoking assessed on the mobile device declined over days in the AR group, F (1, 26) = 10.95, p = .003, but not in the Control group, F (1, 27) = 0.02, p = .89. Two weeks of AR administered on a mobile device reduced attentional bias in African American smokers and had mixed effects on smoking.

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“…30 Urge to smoke was assessed using the 10-item Brief Questionnaire of Smoking Urges, which utilizes a 7-point Likert scale indicating responses ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree; total score is the mean of all items. 31 The Timeline Followback Interview 32 was used to assess past 60-day alcohol use.…”

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Influence of the A118G Polymorphism of theOPRM1Gene and Exon 3 VNTR Polymorphism of theDRD4Gene on Cigarette Craving After Alcohol Administration

Lechner

Knopik

McGeary

et al. 2015

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Evaluation of the Brief Questionnaire of Smoking Urges in Black Light Smokers

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Development of a new craving index for anticipating quitting smoking in patients who undergo the Japanese smoking cessation therapy

Development of a new craving index for anticipating quitting smoking in patients who undergo the Japanese smoking cessation therapy

Effect of attentional retraining on cognition, craving, and smoking in African American smokers.

Influence of the A118G Polymorphism of theOPRM1Gene and Exon 3 VNTR Polymorphism of theDRD4Gene on Cigarette Craving After Alcohol Administration

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