TY - JOUR
T1 - Time to first cigarette in the morning as an index of ability to quit smoking
T2 - Implications for nicotine dependence
AU - Baker, Timothy
AU - Piper, Megan
AU - McCarthy, Danielle
AU - Bolt, Daniel
AU - Smith, Stevens
AU - Kim, Su Young
AU - Colby, Suzanne
AU - Conti, David
AU - Giovino, Gary
AU - Hatsukami, Dorothy
AU - Hyland, Andrew
AU - Krishnan-Sarin, Suchitra
AU - Niaura, Raymond
AU - Perkins, Kenneth
AU - Toll, Benjamin
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - An inability to maintain abstinence is a key indicator of tobacco dependence. Unfortunately, little evidence exists regarding the ability of the major tobacco dependence measures to predict smoking cessation outcome. This paper used data from four placebo-controlled smoking cessation trials and one international epidemiological study to determine relations between cessation success and the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND), the Heaviness of Smoking Index, the Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale, and the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives. Results showed that much of the predictive validity of the FTND could be attributed to its first item, time to first cigarette in the morning, and this item had greater validity than any other single measure. Thus the time-to-first-cigarette item appears to tap a pattern of heavy, uninterrupted, and automatic smoking and may be a good single-item measure of nicotine dependence.
AB - An inability to maintain abstinence is a key indicator of tobacco dependence. Unfortunately, little evidence exists regarding the ability of the major tobacco dependence measures to predict smoking cessation outcome. This paper used data from four placebo-controlled smoking cessation trials and one international epidemiological study to determine relations between cessation success and the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence (FTND), the Heaviness of Smoking Index, the Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale, and the Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives. Results showed that much of the predictive validity of the FTND could be attributed to its first item, time to first cigarette in the morning, and this item had greater validity than any other single measure. Thus the time-to-first-cigarette item appears to tap a pattern of heavy, uninterrupted, and automatic smoking and may be a good single-item measure of nicotine dependence.
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U2 - 10.1080/14622200701673480
DO - 10.1080/14622200701673480
M3 - Article
C2 - 18067032
AN - SCOPUS:37049000803
SN - 1462-2203
VL - 9
SP - 555
EP - 570
JO - Nicotine and Tobacco Research
JF - Nicotine and Tobacco Research
IS - SUPPL. 4
ER -
