ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2018
Delay discounting and e-cigarette use: An investigation in current, former, and never cigarette smokers.
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- Episodic Future Thinking about Smoking-Related Illness: A Preliminary Investigation of Effects on Delay Discounting, Cigarette Craving, and Cigarette Demand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Differentiating e-cigarette use and dual use: the role of impulsivity.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Perceived reward certainty in the assessment of delay discounting.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- Prosociality and public support for tobacco control policies among South Korean adults: A cross-sectional study.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Acute Stress Effect on Delay Discounting and Cannabis Demand Among Individuals Endorsing High-Frequency Cannabis Use.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2025Article
- Loss aversion predicts cigarette smoking status across levels of sociodemographic characteristics.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Smoking Dependence, Time-Discounting, and Sustained Cessation Behavior: A Longitudinal Study of Predominantly Light Smokers.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024Article
- Are the attention checks embedded in delay discounting tasks a valid marker for data quality?Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Loss Aversion and Current, Former, and Never-Smoking Status.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023Article
- Effects of short-term nicotine deprivation on delay discounting among young, experienced, exclusive ENDS users: An initial study.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Intersections between environmental reward availability, loss aversion, and delay discounting as potential risk factors for cigarette smoking and other substance use.Preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Loss aversion and risk for cigarette smoking and other substance use.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- The Predictive Utility of Valuing the Future for Smoking Cessation: Findings from the ITC 4 Country Surveys.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Choice Bundling Increases Valuation of Delayed Losses More Than Gains in Cigarette Smokers.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Choice bundling, unpacked: Observed and predicted effects on intertemporal choice in an additive model of hyperbolic delay discounting.PloS one · 2021Article
- Tobacco Dependence Treatment in Oncology: Initial Patient Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Single- and cross-commodity delay discounting of money and e-cigarette liquid in experienced e-cigarette users.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Neurobiological Considerations for Tobacco Use Disorder.Current behavioral neuroscience reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundCigarette smokers show greater delay discounting (devaluation of delayed consequences) than non-smokers, suggesting that rapid devaluation of the future contributes to tobacco use through a mechanism in which tobacco-related health consequences are too delayed to discourage smoking. However, little work has quantified delay discounting in relation to electronic cigarette (EC) use, a tobacco product that many users believe to pose fewer negative health consequences than cigarettes.
methodsWe assessed discounting of delayed monetary rewards in a web-based sample of 976 participants, stratified by both EC use (current and never) and cigarette use (current, former, and never).
resultsControlling for demographic variance, current EC users generally showed greater discounting than never EC users (p = .019). Current cigarette smokers also showed greater discounting than former and never smokers (p < .001). However, the between-group difference for EC use was much smaller (η
conclusionsThe smaller effect size for the association between delay discounting and current EC use, relative to current cigarette use, suggests that public perception of ECs as a safer alternative to cigarettes attenuates the role of delay discounting in decisions to use ECs.
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