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Prequit fMRI Responses to Pleasant Cues and Cigarette-Related Cues Predict Smoking Cessation Outcome
- Source :
- Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 16:697-708
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013.
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Abstract
- Introduction The reasons that some smokers find it harder to quit than others are unclear. Understanding how individual differences predict smoking cessation outcomes may allow the development of more successful personalized treatments for nicotine dependence. Theoretical models suggest that drug users might be characterized by increased sensitivity to drug cues and by reduced sensitivity to nondrug-related natural rewards. We hypothesized that baseline differences in brain sensitivity to natural rewards and cigarette-related cues would predict the outcome of a smoking cessation attempt. Methods Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we recorded prequit brain responses to neutral, emotional (pleasant and unpleasant), and cigarette-related cues from 55 smokers interested in quitting. We then assessed smoking abstinence, mood, and nicotine withdrawal symptoms during the course of a smoking cessation attempt. Results Using cluster analysis, we identified 2 groups of smokers who differed in their baseline responses to pleasant cues and cigarette-related cues in the posterior visual association areas, the dorsal striatum, and the medial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Smokers who showed lower prequit levels of brain reactivity to pleasant stimuli than to cigarette-related cues were less likely to be abstinent 6 months after their quit attempt, and they had higher levels of negative affect during the course of the quit attempt. Conclusions Smokers with blunted brain responses to pleasant stimuli, relative to cigarette-related stimuli, had more difficulty quitting smoking. For these individuals, the lack of alternative forms of reinforcement when nicotine deprived might be an important factor underlying relapse. Normalizing these pathological neuroadaptations may help them achieve abstinence.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
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Emotions
Nicotine
Reward
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Humans
Association (psychology)
Original Investigation
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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Smoking
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Brain
Tobacco Products
Tobacco Use Disorder
Middle Aged
Abstinence
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Mood
Nicotine withdrawal
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behavior and behavior mechanisms
Smoking cessation
Female
Smoking Cessation
Cues
Psychology
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
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Clinical psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 1469994X and 14622203
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nicotine & Tobacco Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5a41f9bdf237d977d32b51b0eeeb55b8