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Rehme, Anne K., Bey, Katharina, Frommann, Ingo, Mogg, Karin, Bradley, Brendan P., Bludau, Julia, Block, Verena, Straeter, Birgitta, Schuetze, Christian G. and Wagner, Michael ORCID: 0000-0003-2589-6440 (2018). Selective attention to smoking cues in former smokers. Eur. Neuropsychopharmacol., 28 (2). S. 276 - 285. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. ISSN 1873-7862

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Abstract

Repeated drug use modifies the emotional and cognitive processing of drug-associated cues. These changes are supposed to persist even after prolonged abstinence. Several studies demonstrated that smoking cues selectively attract the attention of smokers, but empirical evidence for such an attentional bias among successful quitters is inconclusive. Here, we investigated whether attentional biases persist after smoking cessation. Thirty-eight former smokers, 34 current smokers, and 29 non-smokers participated in a single experimental session. We used three measures of attentional bias for smoking stimuli: A visual probe task with short (500 ms) and long (2000 ms) picture stimulus durations, and a modified Stroop task with smoking-related and neutral words. Former smokers and current smokers, as compared to non-smokers, showed an attentional bias in visual orienting to smoking pictures in the 500 ms condition of the visual probe task. The Stroop interference index of smoking words was negatively related to nicotine dependence in current smokers. Former smokers and mildly dependent smokers, as compared to non-smokers, showed increased interference by smoking words in the Stroop task. Neither current nor former smokers showed an attentional bias in maintained attention (2000 ms visual probe task). In conclusion, even after prolonged abstinence smoking cues retain incentive salience in former smokers, who differed from nonsmokers on two attentional bias indices. Attentional biases in former smokers operate mainly in early involuntary rather than in controlled processing, and may represent a vulnerability factor for relapse. Therefore, smoking cessation programs should strengthen self-control abilities to prevent relapses. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. and ECNP. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Rehme, Anne K. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bey, Katharina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Frommann, Ingo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mogg, Karin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bradley, Brendan P. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bludau, Julia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Block, Verena UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Straeter, Birgitta UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schuetze, Christian G. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wagner, Michael UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-2589-6440 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-196444
DOI:	10.1016/j.euroneuro.2017.12.003
Journal or Publication Title:	Eur. Neuropsychopharmacol.
Volume:	28
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 276 - 285
Date:	2018
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1873-7862
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EMOTIONAL STROOP TASK; 4 COUNTRY SURVEY; NICOTINE DEPENDENCE; EX-SMOKERS; CIGARETTE SMOKERS; NEVER-SMOKERS; EYE-MOVEMENTS; BIAS; ADDICTION; ABSTINENCE Multiple languages Clinical Neurology; Neurosciences; Pharmacology & Pharmacy; Psychiatry Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/19644