Observational studyDrug and alcohol dependence2019
The role of craving in the treatment of alcohol use disorders: The importance of competing desires and pretreatment changes in drinking.
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- Crossover associations of alcohol and smoking, craving and biochemically verified alcohol and nicotine use in heavy drinking smokers.Behavioural pharmacology · 2020Trial
- Does treatment status matter? An examination of daily approach and avoidance inclinations predicting drinking in individuals diagnosed with alcohol use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- Assessing Cravings Among Individuals with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome Prescribed with Anti-craving Medication: A Prospective Observational Study.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Investigating approach/avoidance tendencies in male AUD patients through a gait initiation task: An exploratory posturography study.PloS one · 2025Article
- Pretreatment changes in drinking: Theoretical and methodological implications for alcohol use disorder treatment outcome research.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Alcohol craving and withdrawal at treatment entry prospectively predict alcohol use outcomes during outpatient treatment.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- The Complex Dynamics of Resources and Maintaining Factors in Social Networks for Alcohol-Use Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Forgoing plans for alcohol and cannabis use in daily life: Examining reasons for nonuse when use was planned in a predominantly white college student sample.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- An Experimental Test of the Relationship between Electronic Nicotine Delivery System Use and Alcohol Consumption.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2021Article
- Pictures Library of Smoking Cravings: Development and Verification of Smokers and Non-smokers.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe current study aimed to contribute to the understanding of the session to session relationship between craving and drinking during the course of treatment via the incorporation into the analysis of both a) motivation to avoid alcohol and 2) pretreatment change, given that half of all individuals entering treatment change their drinking prior to the first session.
methodsSixty-three treatment-seeking participants received 12 weeks of CBT for alcohol dependence and completed assessments of approach inclinations, avoidance inclinations and drinking behaviors at the end of each session.
resultsConsistent with our hypothesis, motivations to avoid alcohol and pretreatment change significantly interacted with craving to predict both number of drinking days and heavy drinking days during the interval between sessions. Specifically, among lower pretreatment changers, motivation to avoid alcohol moderated the effect of craving on number of drinking days and number of heavy drinking days, such that craving positively predicted drinking among those lower on motivations to avoid only. In contrast, among higher pretreatment changers, cravings positively predicted drinking among those higher on motivations to avoid alcohol.
conclusionsThese findings highlight the importance of measuring both desire to consume and desire to avoid consuming alcohol simultaneously, and suggest that ambivalence may function differently depending on whether one is initiating (low pretreatment change) versus maintaining change (high pretreatment change).
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