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Orality and smoking
Author(s) -
Howe Michael,
Summerfield Angela B.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1979.tb02498.x
Subject(s) - orality , pleasure , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , psychology , craving , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , addiction , psychotherapist , psychiatry , pedagogy , artificial intelligence , computer science , literacy
This study was designed to investigate the relation of orality and smoking, smoking motivation and anticipatory pleasure in smoking. Ninety‐seven male and female subjects completed questionnaires designed to elicit information about their motivation and behaviour. Results indicated that difficulty in stopping smoking was positively related to three non‐nutriment oral preoccupations. Smoking for psychological as opposed to social reasons was positively related to two non‐nutriment oral preoccupations. Anticipation of pleasure in smoking before becoming a smoker was negatively related to nutriment orality, positively related to smoking because of a craving, and, for females only, positively to one type of non‐nutriment orality. The results are discussed in relation to the role of oral ingestion and the reaction of the central nervous system to the drug.