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  • Nicotine addiction is a significant public health issue.
  • Craving is a key factor in addiction development and maintenance.
  • Virtual reality (VR) shows potential for eliciting stronger craving than traditional methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Develop a novel, translatable VR paradigm to elicit nicotine craving.
  • Assess objective eye-related characteristics as correlates of craving.
  • Investigate attentional bias and pupillometry during VR cue exposure.

Main Methods:

  • A VR paradigm with nicotine/tobacco product (NTP) cues and neutral scenes was created.
  • Participants (N=31) completed subjective craving and presence measures.
  • Eye-gaze fixation, pupil diameter, and blink rate were recorded during VR exposure.

Main Results:

  • The VR paradigm induced moderate presence and low sickness.
  • Attentional bias and pupil diameter increased towards NTP cues in active scenes (Cohen d=0.30-0.92).
  • Spontaneous blink rates did not differ between active and neutral scenes.

Conclusions:

  • The developed NTP Cue VR paradigm is a viable laboratory tool for cue-exposure research.
  • Attentional bias and pupillometry during VR may serve as objective markers for nicotine addiction.
  • This technology offers a new avenue for understanding and potentially treating nicotine addiction.