A Comparison of Social (Weekend) Smokers, Regular (Daily) Smokers and a Never-Smoked Group Upon Everyday Prospective Memory

Tom Heffernan; Terence O'Neill

doi:10.2174/1874941001104010072

A Comparison of Social (Weekend) Smokers, Regular (Daily) Smokers and a Never-Smoked Group Upon Everyday Prospective Memory

Tom Heffernan, Terence O'Neill

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Abstract

Our previous studies suggested that smokers have a worse performance on everyday prospective memory (PM)tasks than non-smokers. The present study compared regular and social smokers to see if there is a dose-response relationship between smoking and PM. We recruited 28 social (weekend) smokers (SS), 28 regular (daily) smokers (RS)and 28 people who had never smoked (NS) from among social science students who reported no psychiatric or drug and alcohol problems. The participant's PM was assessed by means of a Prospective Remembering Video Procedure (PRVP).After controlling for between-group variations in weekly (moderate) alcohol use, mood and IQ, the findings revealed that NS performed better than RS (F= 1.44, p<0.01)and SS (F=1.00, p=.38). Smokers have a lower performance on our PM task than non-smokers, regardless of the type of smoking pattern.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	72-75
Journal	The Open Addiction Journal
Volume	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2174/1874941001104010072
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

social smokers
regular smokers
never-smoked group
prospective memory

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A Comparison of Social (Weekend) Smokers, Regular (Daily) Smokers and a Never-Smoked Group Upon Everyday Prospective Memory

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