ArticleNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2013
Behavioral economic analysis of cue-elicited craving for tobacco: a virtual reality study.
Article in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07013084 (Study on the Effect of Digital Smoking Cessation Education Intervention on Outpatients), which is not on this map. Cited by 52 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Virtual Reality (VR) in Assessment and Treatment of Addictive Disorders: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
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- Electronic cigarette cue reactivity in exclusive electronic cigarette users.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Attentional Bias, Pupillometry, and Spontaneous Blink Rate: Eye Characteristic Assessment Within a Translatable Nicotine Cue Virtual Reality Paradigm.JMIR serious games · 2024Article
- A neuroeconomic signature of opioid craving: How fluctuations in craving bias drug-related and nondrug-related value.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Using Virtual Reality to Induce and Assess Objective Correlates of Nicotine Craving: Paradigm Development Study.JMIR serious games · 2022Article
- Orexin-1 receptor signaling in ventral tegmental area mediates cue-driven demand for cocaine.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Assessment of demand for methamphetamine and cigarettes among individuals with methamphetamine use disorder.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Refining the marijuana purchase task: Using qualitative methods to inform measure development.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Examination of a mouthpiece-based topography device for assessing relative reinforcing effects of e-cigarettes: A preliminary study.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Baseline cocaine demand predicts contingency management treatment outcomes for cocaine-use disorder.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Article
- Cue-Elicited Anxiety and Alcohol Craving as Indicators of the Validity of ALCO-VR Software: A Virtual Reality Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionSubjective craving is a prominent construct in the study of tobacco motivation; yet, the precise measurement of tobacco craving poses several difficulties. A behavioral economic approach to understanding drug motivation imports concepts and methods from economics to improve the assessment of craving.
methodsUsing an immersive virtual reality (VR) cue reactivity paradigm, this study tested the hypothesis that, compared with neutral cues, tobacco cues would result in significant increases in subjective craving and diverse aspects of demand for tobacco in a community sample of 47 regular smokers. In addition, the study examined these motivational indices in relation to a dual-component delay and cigarette consumption self-administration paradigm.
resultsIn response to the VR tobacco cues, significant increases were observed for tobacco craving and the demand indices of Omax (i.e., maximum total expenditure toward cigarettes) and Breakpoint (i.e., price at which consumption is completely suppressed), whereas a significant decrease was observed for Elasticity (i.e., lower cigarette price sensitivity). Continuous analyses revealed trend-level inverse associations between Omax and Intensity in relation to delay duration and significant positive associations between subjective craving, Omax, and Elasticity in relation to the number of cigarettes purchased.
conclusionsThe results from this study provide further evidence for the utility of behavioral economic concepts and methods in understanding smoking motivation. These data also reveal the incremental contribution of behavioral economic indices beyond subjective craving in predicting in vivo cigarette consumption. Relationships to previous studies and methodological considerations are discussed.
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