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The phenotype of recovery IV: Delay discounting predicts perceived stress and a chance locus of control in individuals in recovery from substance use disorders
(Elsevier, 2020-12-01)
Objective: Understanding individuals who are successful in recovery from substance use disorders will help to inform treatments and preventative measures. Stress has been shown to be associated with both substance use and ...
Tobacco Dependence Treatment in Oncology: Initial Patient Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
(MDPI, 2020-05-31)
Despite the importance of smoking cessation to cancer care treatment, historically, few cancer centers have provided treatment for tobacco dependence. To address this gap, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the ...
Future Thinking Priming Especially Effective at Modifying Delay Discounting Rates among Cigarette Smokers
(MDPI, 2021-08-18)
Background: Tobacco use remains one of the world’s greatest preventable causes of death and disease. While most smokers want to quit, few are successful, highlighting a need for novel therapeutic approaches to support ...
Congruence of BOLD Response across Intertemporal Choice Conditions: Fictive and Real Money Gains and Losses
(Society for Neuroscience, 2009-07-08)
Intertemporal choice is predicated on the valuation of commodities with respect to delay until their receipt. Subjective value of a future outcome decreases, or is discounted, as a function of that delay (Bickel and Johnson, ...
Neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and population health: the neuroscience of chronic disease prevention
(2018-09)
Preventable chronic diseases are the leading cause of death in the majority of countries throughout the world, and this trend will continue for the foreseeable future. The potential to offset the social, economic, and ...
Primed for Health: Future Thinking Priming Decreases Delay Discounting
(2019-07)
Objective: Delay discounting, the propensity to devalue delayed rewards, has robust predictive validity for multiple health behaviors and is a new therapeutic target for health behavior change. Priming can influence behaviors ...
Triangulating abuse liability assessment for flavoured cigar products using physiological, behavioural economic and subjective assessments: a within-subjects clinical laboratory protocol
(BMJ, 2018-10-01)
Introduction In the USA, Food and Drug Administration regulations prohibit the sale of flavoured cigarettes, with menthol being the exception. However, the manufacture, advertisement and sale of flavoured cigar products ...
Dosing parameters for the effects of high-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation on smoking cessation: Study protocol for a randomized factorial sham-controlled clinical trial
(Springer, 2020-05-01)
Background: Despite the considerable success of comprehensive tobacco control efforts, tobacco use remains one of the greatest preventable causes of death and disease today. Over half of all smokers in the US make quit ...
Estimating the Impact of Tobacco Parity and Harm Reduction Tax Proposals Using the Experimental Tobacco Marketplace
(MDPI, 2021-07-23)
Taxes are a demonstrably effective method to suppress tobacco use. This study examined the effects of the tobacco parity (i.e., imposing taxes equally on all tobacco products) and the harm reduction (i.e., applying taxes ...
The Predictive Utility of Valuing the Future for Smoking Cessation: Findings from the ITC 4 Country Surveys
(MDPI, 2022-01-06)
Background: Delay discounting (DD) and time perspective (TP) are conceptually related constructs that are theorized as important determinants of the pursuit of future outcomes over present inclinations. This study explores ...