ReviewNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2010
Counterbalancing in smoking cue research: a critical analysis.
Review in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
43 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Influence of affective manipulations on cigarette craving: a meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2013Pooled it
- A systematic review of the relationships between craving and smoking cessation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Pooled it
- Effect of nicotine lozenge use prior to smoking cue presentation on craving and withdrawal symptom severity.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Trial
- Visceral States Call for Visceral Measures: Verbal Overshadowing of Hunger Ratings Across Assessment Modalities.Assessment · 2018Trial
- Ultra-Brief Mindfulness Training Reduces Alcohol Consumption in At-Risk Drinkers: A Randomized Double-Blind Active-Controlled Experiment.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2017Trial
- Effects of varenicline on alcohol cue reactivity in heavy drinkers.Psychopharmacology · 2017Trial
- Impact of acute guanfacine administration on stress and cue reactivity in cocaine-dependent individuals.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2015Trial
- Stress- and cue-elicited craving and reactivity in marijuana-dependent individuals.Psychopharmacology · 2011Trial
- Reactivity to electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) cues in adults who smoke cigarettes and vape cannabis.Addictive behaviors · 2026Article
- Examining Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) Cue Reactivity Using a Remote Platform: Cigarette and ENDS Desire in Dual Users.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Article
- Neuroendocrine responses and coupling to laboratory-induced stress in problem gambling and heavy smoking.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Comparing the effectiveness of virtual reality vs 2D display-based cue reactivity paradigms to induce nicotine-craving: a behavioral and psychophysiological study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Intrinsic connectivity demonstrates a shared role of the posterior cingulate for cue reactivity in both gambling and cocaine use disorders.Addictive behaviors · 2024Article
- Multimodal Assessment of Smoking cue Reactivity During a Smoking Cue Exposure Task.Clinical EEG and neuroscience · 2024Article
- The influence of error detection and error significance on neural and behavioral correlates of error processing in a complex choice task.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Temporally dynamic neural correlates of drug cue reactivity, response inhibition, and methamphetamine-related response inhibition in people with methamphetamine use disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- How laboratory studies of cigarette craving can inform the experimental alcohol craving literature.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Review
- The impacts of caffeine administration, expectancies, and related stimuli on coffee craving, withdrawal, and self-administration.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Exploring regulation and function of dopamine D3 receptors in alcohol use disorder. A PET [Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Smoking-related cue reactivity in a virtual reality setting: association between craving and EEG measures.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
introductionCue exposure research has been used to examine key issues in smoking research, such as predicting relapse, testing new medications, investigating the neurobiology of nicotine dependence, and examining reactivity among smokers with comorbid psychopathologies. Determining the order that cues are presented is one of the most critical steps in the design of these investigations. It is widely assumed that cue exposure studies should counterbalance the order in which smoking and control (neutral) cues are presented. This article examines the premises underlying the use of counterbalancing in experimental research, and it evaluates the degree to which counterbalancing is appropriate in smoking cue exposure studies.
methodsWe reviewed the available literature on the use of counterbalancing techniques in human smoking cue exposure research.
resultsMany studies counterbalancing order of cues have not provided critical analyses to determine whether this approach was appropriate. Studies that have reported relevant data, however, suggest that order of cue presentation interacts with type of cue (smoking vs. control), which raises concerns about the utility of counterbalancing. Primarily, this concern arises from potential carryover effects, in which exposure to smoking cues affects subsequent responding to neutral cues.
conclusionsCue type by order of cue interactions may compromise the utility of counterbalancing. Unfortunately, there is no obvious alternative that is optimal across studies. Strengths and limitations of several alternative designs are considered, and key questions are identified to advance understanding of the optimal conditions for conducting smoking cue exposure studies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.