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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2001 Oct;96(10):1419–1432. doi: 10.1080/09652140120075152

Table 2.

Mean (SD) self-reported urge ratings among tobacco chippers and heavy smokers under minimally-deprived and deprived conditions

Tobacco chippers
Heavy smokers
Minimally-deprived Deprived Minimally-deprived Deprived
Urge rating scale (time 1) 18.9 (21.5)a 22.2 (22.3)a 20.8 (17.9)a 48.1 (22.8)b
Urge rating scale (time 2) 9.5 (14.1)a 21.3 (18.6)b 2.6 (5.5)a 49.1 (20.2)c
Urge rating scale (time 3) 11.7 (15.3)a 23.0 (21.4)b 10.1 (13.5)a 48.6 (21.4)c
Urge rating scale (time 4) 10.9 (14.4)a 25.1 (23.2)b 14.5 (19.1)a 50.5 (21.6)c
Urge rating scale (time 5) 24.3 (23.0)a 44.2 (32.3)b 34.1 (24.3)a,b 70.7 (23.0)c
Change in urge (time 5 minus time 1) 5.4 (20.1)a 22.0 (19.1)b 13.3 (23.6)a,b 22.6 (18.1)b
Change in urge (time 5 minus time 2) 14.8 (14.4)a 22.9 (20.3)a,b 30.2 (26.5)b 21.6 (18.5)a,b
Magnitude estimation (time 2) 6.2 (4.3)a 10.7 (2.8)b 4.3 (4.4)a 12.0 (5.0)b
Magnitude estimation (time 3) 7.0 (4.8)a 11.7 (5.4)b 7.4 (6.1)a 12.5 (5.0)b
Magnitude estimation (time 4) 7.0 (5.2)a 12.5 (5.8)b 8.8 (7.8)a 14.3 (6.5)b
Magnitude estimation (time 5) 16.0 (13.1)a 24.6 (16.5)b 23.3 (19.2)a, b 28.2 (19.8)b
Urge composite (time 5) 28.0 (33.5)a 57.2 (66.9)a 42.7 (61.5)a 137.5 (135.8)b

Time 1: post-initial instruction; time 2: post-smoke for the minimally deprived smokers; time 3: control cue exposure; time 4: pre-smoking cue baseline; time 5: smoking cue exposure. Values in each row with non-overlapping subscripts are significantly different from each other (p < 0.05). For purposes of illustration, untransformed values are presented for magnitude estimation and composite urge ratings. Only contrasts with transformed values are noted. Urge composite means (mean of the composite score of each subject) are not the product of the mean values of urge rating scale#1 and magnitude estimation time 5).