Abstract Hypothetical Purchase Tasks (HPTs) simulate demand for a substance as a
function of escalating price. HPTs are increasingly used to examine relationships between …

Background and Aims A cigarette purchase task (CPT) aims to characterize individual
variation in the reinforcing value of tobacco. This meta‐analysis estimated the associations …

Background The relationship between smoking and depression remains controversial. This
study aimed to investigate the association between smoking and depression from three …

Background Adult smokers with symptoms of any mental illness (AMI) are highly dependent
on nicotine and may face additional difficulty quitting smoking. While there is evidence that …

Introduction Research has recently shown that nicotine reinforcement is better characterized
by a bifactorial latent structure: persistence (insensitivity to cigarette pricing) and amplitude …

The cigarette purchase task (CPT) is a behavioral economic method for assessing demand
for cigarettes. Growing interest in behavioral correlates of tobacco use in clinical and …

English We assessed the association of tobacco use or smoking cessation with depression
risk and determined if the presence of a depressive disorder was associated with smoking …

Background Although the negative impact of smoking and health-related quality of life
(HRQoL) on depression has been confirmed in various studies, There has been little …

Background Despite high smoking rate in people with depressive symptoms, there is
ongoing debate about relationship between smoking and depressive symptoms. Methods …

From a behavioral economics standpoint, tobacco addiction can be conceptualized as a
reinforcer pathology deriving from high cigarette demand and elevated delay discounting …