Lack of inhibitory control predicts cigarette smoking dependence: Evidence from a non-deprived sample of light to moderate smokers
Type
Article dans une revue scientifique
Date de publication
2010
Langue de la référence
Anglais
Unité(s) / centre(s) de recherche hors HEP
Cognitive Psychopathology and Neuropsychology Unit, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Résumé
Objective: To examine the relationship between prepotent inhibition capacities and cigarette dependence in a sample of non-deprived light to moderate smokers.
Methods: Fifty volunteer smokers were screened with a laboratory go-stop paradigm, and self-reports of cigarette dependence (Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence, FTND) and cigarette craving (revised Questionnaire on Smoking Urge, QSU-12).
Results: Correlation and regression analyses showed that lower prepotent inhibition capacities predict higher levels of cigarette dependence when individual differences in processing speed, craving states, and age were controlled for. In addition, lower inhibition capacity is associated with a higher number of cigarettes smoked per day.
Conclusions: A poor ability to inhibit prepotent responses seems to be one of the individual factors related to cigarette smoking dependence.
Methods: Fifty volunteer smokers were screened with a laboratory go-stop paradigm, and self-reports of cigarette dependence (Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence, FTND) and cigarette craving (revised Questionnaire on Smoking Urge, QSU-12).
Results: Correlation and regression analyses showed that lower prepotent inhibition capacities predict higher levels of cigarette dependence when individual differences in processing speed, craving states, and age were controlled for. In addition, lower inhibition capacity is associated with a higher number of cigarettes smoked per day.
Conclusions: A poor ability to inhibit prepotent responses seems to be one of the individual factors related to cigarette smoking dependence.
Titre du périodique
Mention d’édition
Elsevier Ireland
Pays d'édition
Irlande
ISSN
0376-8716
EISSN
1879-0046
Peer Reviewed
Portée (nationale / internationale)
Internationale
Volume / Tome
112
Issue
1-2
Pagination
164-167
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