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A preparation for the experimental analysis of cigarette smoking is described in detail. The preparation permits the intensive study of cigarette smoking in individual subjects under controlled laboratory conditions. A variety of behavioral and physiological measures used include rate and pattern of puffing, duration of each puff, time spent smoking cigarettes, expired air carbon monoxide levels, cigarette butt weights, and subjective rating scales of various aspects of smoking. The preparation is reliable and permits relatively unobtrusive monitoring of smoking performance. Cigarette smoking occurs in orderly patterns, within subjects; it varies as a function of number of cigarettes provided and hours of smoking deprivation.
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Henningfield, J. E., & Griffiths, R. R.Effects of ventilated cigarette holders on cigarette smoking by humans. Manuscript submitted for publication.
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This research was supported by USPHS Grant DA 01935. We thank Penny Edwards and Cheryl Mercer for their assistance in conducting the experiments, John Yingling for developing the computer program, William Bixler for assistance in constructing the test rooms, technical assistance of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Biology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for developing the puff monitoring system, and Frank Funderburk for assisting in statistical analysis of the data. In addition, we thank Ellen Gritz and Murray Jarvik for their helpful advice, particularly with regard to the construction of the thermistor-triggered puff monitoring system.
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Henningfield, J.E., Griffiths, R.R. A preparation for the experimental analysis of human cigarette smoking behavior. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation 11, 538–544 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03201375
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