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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Addiction Research

Background:

  • Impulsivity is linked to cigarette smoking, but underlying mechanisms remain unclear.
  • Existing theories often focus on appetitive processes, overlooking potential affective pathways.
  • Research indicates a possible role for affect in maintaining smoking behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how impulsivity influences affective responses to environmental smoking cues.
  • To explore the specific facets of impulsivity involved in this relationship.
  • To differentiate between negative and positive affective pathways in impulsivity and smoking.

Main Methods:

  • Adult smokers (N=62) participated in a repeated-measures design.
  • Participants were exposed to both neutral and smoking-related environmental cues.
  • Mixed-effects regression analyses were used to analyze affective responses post-cue exposure.

Main Results:

  • Increased negative affect after cue exposure was significantly associated with higher urgency and sensation-seeking impulsivity.
  • Heightened impulsivity correlated with generally lower positive affect levels.
  • No significant association was found between impulsivity and positive affective responses specifically to smoking cues.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support a negative affective pathway linking specific impulsivity facets (urgency, sensation seeking) to cigarette smoking.
  • This pathway appears distinct from positive affective responses to smoking cues.
  • Understanding these affective mechanisms may inform interventions for smoking cessation.