SynthesisAddiction (Abingdon, England)2013
Influence of affective manipulations on cigarette craving: a meta-analysis.
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- The effect of laboratory manipulations of negative affect on alcohol craving and use: A meta-analysis.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Pooled it
- Effects of experimental negative affect manipulations on ad libitum smoking: a meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Pooled it
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- Visceral States Call for Visceral Measures: Verbal Overshadowing of Hunger Ratings Across Assessment Modalities.Assessment · 2018Trial
- Decline in cue-provoked craving during cue exposure therapy for smoking cessation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2014Trial
- Craving mediates the association between affect and substance use in daily life among individuals with substance use disorders.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2026Article
- Distress intolerance amplifies the effect of momentary anxiety on momentary cigarette craving among females who smoke cigarettes.Addictive behaviors · 2025Article
- Ecological momentary assessment and mediation analyses reveal relationships between affect, craving, and substance use in daily life.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- A comprehensive analysis of craving in smoking cue-exposure research: Differential associations across racial identity and sex.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- The role of positive emotion in harmful health behavior: Implications for theory and public health campaigns.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Investigating mood-modification, withdrawal, and sensitization in compulsive sexual behaviour.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Climate Change and Substance-Use Behaviors: A Risk-Pathways Framework.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- The Role of Emotion Differentiation in the Association Between Momentary Affect and Tobacco/Nicotine Craving in Young Adults.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- Examining racial differences in smoking outcomes among smokers enrolled in an intravenous nicotine infusion study.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Learning from addiction: Craving of prescription opioids in chronic pain sufferers.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
- Affective mechanisms of stress-induced cigarette craving: Considerations of gender and race/ethnicity.Addictive behaviors · 2022Article
- A Person-Centered Analysis of Craving in Smoking-Cue-Exposure Research.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Quit Stage and Intervention Type Differences in the Momentary Within-Person Association Between Negative Affect and Smoking Urges.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsRetrospective self-report and observational studies have yielded inconsistent findings regarding the capacity of negative affect (NA) to increase smoking motivation among dependent samples. Controlled laboratory studies offer an alternative paradigm for testing the role of affective state upon smoking motivation. The aim of the current study was to quantify cue-provoked cravings produced by affective manipulations in the published literature, and to identify theoretical and methodological moderators.
methodsWe conducted a systematic literature search to identify experimental studies that manipulated NA or positive affect (PA), and assessed post-manipulation craving. Separate random-effects meta-analyses examined NA and PA cues as predictors of self-reported craving. Self-reported affect (NA and PA), nicotine deprivation, gender, nicotine dependence, order of cue presentation, single versus multi-item craving assessment and affect induction method were tested as moderators of affective cue-induced craving.
resultsNA manipulations produced a medium effect [g = 0.47; confidence interval (CI) = 0.31-0.63] on craving, but no main effects were found for PA manipulations (g = 0.05; CI = -0.09 to 0.20) on craving. Self-reported NA moderated the extent to which NA and PA manipulations elicited craving (P < 0.02 for each). That is, more effective NA manipulations produced greater cravings, and PA manipulations reduced cravings when they reduced NA.
conclusionsLaboratory studies indicate that negative, but not positive, affect is a situational determinant of cravings to smoke among dependent smokers. Adverse emotional states increase craving to smoke among dependent smokers, but positive emotional states do not consistently reduce craving to smoke.
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