Self-rated everyday and prospective memory abilities of cigarette smokers and non-smokers: a web-based study

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Smoking is associated with neurocognitive deficits in alcoholism☆

“…Meyer (Meyer et al, 1986) found that among multi-infarct dementia patients, improved cognitive function was related to cessation of smoking. Smokers also self-report more everyday and long-term prospective memory errors than non smokers (Heffernan et al, 2005). In sum, although there are beneficial acute effects of nicotine on cognitive performance, the long-term effects of smoking are clearly negative and seem most pronounced on measures of neurocognitive function that emphasize the ability to rapidly and flexibly process information.…”

Nicotine derived from the electronic cigarette improves time-based prospective memory in abstinent smokers

“…This ability to remember to perform a delayed intention is critical to the efficiency of our everyday lives, has been shown to decline with advancing age (Maylor 1996) and is worse in smokers than non-smokers (Heffernan et al 2005;Heffernan et al 2010). PM, however, is not a unitary process; it involves encoding and maintaining an intention and retrieving and executing it at the appropriate moment in the future.…”