Background In functional brain imaging studies, exposure to cues related to cocaine,
opiates, and alcohol in dependent individuals is associated with activation of the anterior …

Rationale Growing proportions of smokers in the USA do not smoke everyday and can be
referred to as light and intermittent smokers (LITS). Despite a current prevalence of LITS in …

Introduction: Cue exposure research has been used to examine key issues in smoking
research, such as predicting relapse, testing new medications, investigating the …

Environmental cues associated with nicotine delivery are an important part of the stimulus
that sustains smoking behavior and is often coupled with craving and relapse; however, the …

Aims: To assess whether cognitive biases for drug-related cues are associated with
subjective craving and behavioural indices of drug-seeking behaviour, as predicted by …

Previous research has shown that elevated trait-impulsivity heightens the risk for initiating
tobacco use and indicates that nicotine may be disproportionately rewarding for more …

We assessed craving and smoking in response to smoking-relevant cues. Two hundred
seven daily smokers viewed images related to 1 of 6 cue sets (cigarettes, positive and …

There is evidence that women may be less successful when attempting to quit smoking than
men. One potential contributory cause of this gender difference is differential craving and …

In untreated smokers, exposure to cigarette-related cues increases both the intensity of
cigarette craving and relative glucose metabolism of the perigenual/ventral anterior …

We examined the effects of perceived cigarette availability and gender on smoking cue
reactivity. Smokers were exposed to smoking cues (smoking paraphernalia) and control …