ReviewAddiction (Abingdon, England)2017
The case for investigating social context in laboratory studies of smoking.
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- Let's Enjoy an Evening on the Couch? A Daily Life Investigation of Shared Problematic Behaviors in Three Couple Studies.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2024Article
- Role of social context in addiction etiology and recovery.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Review
- Peer-elicited alcohol craving in adolescents and emerging adults: Bridging the laboratory and natural environment.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Differential impacts of economic and demographic variables on substance use patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2022Article
- A virtual reality platform for the measurement of drinking topography.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Associations between Perceived Social Eating Norms and Initiation and Maintenance of Changes in Dietary Habits during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in France.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Social Smoking Environment and Associations With Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance.Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention · 2021Article
- Stress Allostasis in Substance Use Disorders: Promise, Progress, and Emerging Priorities in Clinical Research.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2020Review
- Experiencing cigarette craving with a friend: A shared reality analysis.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Article
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- A review of the effects of nicotine on social functioning.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2018Review
- Considering the context: social factors in responses to drugs in humans.Psychopharmacology · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundWith increasing frequency, addiction is conceived of as a brain disease, and such accounts seem especially pertinent with regard to the rapid delivery of nicotine to the brain via cigarette smoke. Moreover, drug administration trials (cigarette puffs) suggest that the behavior of smoking becomes automatized, with individuals developing prototypical approaches to smoking a cigarette. Compared with presumably more social activities, such as drinking alcohol, there may be little opportunity for social processes to influence smoking behavior. However, survey research examining smoking motivation often reveals a broadly defined 'social' factor and field research suggests that social context does influence smoking. ARGUMENT: We posit that laboratory smoking research has largely ignored social contextual factors that may help to understand better the precise mechanisms underlying smoking behavior and smoking motivation.
methodWe reviewed laboratory studies examining the effect of social context (operationalized as modeling) on smoking behavior. Studies were identified by searching PsychInfo and Medline using the following keywords: smoking, nicotine, tobacco, cigarette, consumption, topography, puff, smoking behavior, cigarettes smoked, modeling, imitation, social context, social influence and peer pressure. The reference and citation lists of these studies were then searched to identify additional studies.
conclusionsFew laboratory smoking studies target social context. Those few studies indicate that smoking behavior can be influenced by the presence of others. There is also some evidence that social context influences the effects of smoking as well as processes related to self-perception and self-regulation that reinforce smoking and hamper smoking cessation efforts.
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