Behavioural tasks sensitive to acute abstinence and predictive of smoking cessation success: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Addiction

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2134-2144

  Grabski, Meryem ^a   Curran, H Valerie ^b   Nutt, David J ^c   Husbands, Stephen M ^d   Freeman, Tom P ^b   Fluharty, Meg ^a   Munafò, Marcus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstinence; cessation; cognition; meta analysis; performance; smoking; systematic review; tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAY DISCOUNTING; EMBASE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; META ANALYSIS; PSYCINFO; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SMOKING CESSATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEB OF SCIENCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECURRENCE; SAMPLE SIZE; SMOKING CESSATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84981225572     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/add.13507     Document Type: Review

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