Abstract

The present study examined the hypothesis that nicotine is associated with reduced attentional bias to affective and smoking-related stimuli in a modified Stroop task.

A total of 56 habitual smokers were each tested on 4 days with 14 mg nicotine patches and placebo patches, counterbalanced, as a within-subjects factor in a double-blind design.

A modified Stroop using negative-affect words, smoking words, color words, and neutral words was presented via computer in blocked format.

As predicted, nicotine, relative to placebo, was associated with decreased ...

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