Trial reportJournal of health communication2017
Countering Craving with Disgust Images: Examining Nicotine Withdrawn Smokers' Motivated Message Processing of Anti-Tobacco Public Service Announcements.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Cognitive mechanisms of disgust in the development and maintenance of psychopathology: A qualitative review and synthesis.Clinical psychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Feeling Hopeful Motivates Change: Emotional Responses to Messages Communicating Comparative Risk of Electronic Cigarettes and Combusted Cigarettes.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2019Trial
- Examining Bi-directional links between distinct affect states and tobacco lapse during a cessation attempt.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Observational
- Emotional Expression on Social Media Support Forums for Substance Cessation: Observational Study of Text-Based Reddit Posts.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Observational
- Motivation to quit tobacco; Impact of different types of Anti-tobacco state-sponsored media propaganda messages.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2023Article
- Social Facilitation in Fear Appeals Creates Positive Affect but Inhibits Healthy Eating Intentions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Bringing disgust in through the backdoor in healthy food promotion: a phenomenological perspective.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2021Article
- Cigarette-specific disgust aroused by smoking warning images strengthens smokers' inhibitory control under smoking-related background in Go/NoGo task.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Psychophysiological responses to hookah tobacco public education messages among young adults.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2021Article
- Cognitive and affective responses to marijuana prevention and educational messaging.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Adult Social Environments and the Use of Combustible and Electronic Cigarettes: Opportunities for Reducing Smoking in the 30s.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2021Article
- Ignoring theory and evidence: commentary on Kok et al. (2018).Health psychology review · 2018Article
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Abstract
There is a lack of research examining whether smoking cues in anti-tobacco advertisements elicit cravings, or whether this effect is moderated by countervailing message attributes, such as disgusting images. Furthermore, no research has examined how these types of messages influence nicotine withdrawn smokers' cognitive processing and associated behavioral intentions. At a laboratory session, participants (N = 50 nicotine-deprived adults) were tested for cognitive processing and recognition memory of 12 anti-tobacco advertisements varying in depictions of smoking cues and disgust content. Self-report smoking urges and intentions to quit smoking were measured after each message. The results from this experiment indicated that smoking cue messages activated appetitive/approach motivation resulting in enhanced attention and memory, but increased craving and reduced quit intentions. Disgust messages also enhanced attention and memory, but activated aversive/avoid motivation resulting in reduced craving and increased quit intentions. The combination of smoking cues and disgust content resulted in moderate amounts of craving and quit intentions, but also led to heart rate acceleration (indicating defensive processing) and poorer recognition of message content. These data suggest that in order to counter nicotine-deprived smokers' craving and prolong abstinence, anti-tobacco messages should omit smoking cues but include disgust. Theoretical implications are also discussed.
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