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Early onset tobacco cigarette smokers exhibit deficits in response inhibition and sustained attention

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Mashhoon, Yasmin, Betts, Jennifer, Farmer, Stacey L., Lukas, Scott E.·2018·Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Background Initiation of cigarette smoking during adolescence coincides with structural and cognitive neuromaturation. Thus, early onset smokers (EOS; initiated <16 years old) may be at unique risk of altered development of executive function relative to late onset smokers (LOS; initiated >16 years old). This study quantified the effects of age of smoking onset on response impulsivity and inhibitory control using a novel smoking Go/NoGo task (Luijten et al., 2011).Methods Nicotine deprived adult EOS (n = 10) and LOS (n = 10) and adult healthy non-smokers (HNS; n = 10) were shown smoking-related and neutral images with either a blue (Go) or yellow (NoGo) frame. Participants were instructed to respond to blue-framed Go trials quickly and accurately, and withhold responding for yellow-framed NoGo trials.Results EOS made more Go response accuracy errors (p ≤ 0.02) and failed more frequently to inhibit responses to NoGo trials (p < 0.02) than LOS and HNS. EOS also made more errors in inhibiting responses to smoking-related (p ≤ 0.02) and neutral (p ≤ 0.02) NoGo trials. EOS reported greater baseline craving for cigarette smoking than LOS (p < 0.04), and craving was significantly associated with greater omission errors (p ≤ 0.04).Conclusions EOS exhibited greater difficulty than LOS in responding accurately to Go stimuli and withholding responses to both smoking and neutral NoGo stimuli, indicating greater response impulsivity, poor attention, and deficits in response inhibition. These findings suggest that EO smoking, in particular, contributes to diminished task-related attention and inhibitory control behaviors in adulthood and provide support for the tobacco-induced neurotoxicity of adolescent cognitive development (TINACD) theory (DeBry and Tiffany, 2008).

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Authors
Mashhoon, Y., Betts, J., Farmer, S. L., & Lukas, S. E.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • McLean Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
Mashhoon, Yasmin
Venue
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-03
Volume
184
Pages
48-56
ISSN
0376-8716 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2782661435
Cited by
29
References
63
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FWCI
2.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Drug Abuse (K01 DA034028)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Keywords
early smoking onset, adolescent smoking initiation, response inhibition, sustained attention, executive function, nicotine craving, smoking initiation age, nicotine deprivation
MeSH terms
Smokers, Adult, Age Factors, Attention, Cognition, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Smoking, Young Adult, Executive Function, Craving

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