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. 2009 Feb 26;11(2):178–184. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntn021

Table 2.

Wisconsin Inventory of Smoking Dependence Motives total and subscale means by smoking level and significant differences between smoking levels in adjusted regression analyses

Score (SD) by smoking level
p value
Low-level Light Moderate/heavy Low-level versus light Low-level versus moderate/heavy Light versus moderate/heavy Overall
WISDM-68 subscale
    Affiliative attachment 2.66 (1.70) 3.80 (1.96) 4.72 (1.81) >.0001 >.0001 .0003 >.0001
    Automaticity 3.67 (1.84) 4.22 (1.85) 5.57 (1.36) .01 >.0001 >.0001 >.0001
    Behavioral choice/melioration 2.98 (1.71) 4.24 (1.78) 5.22 (1.66) .0009 >.0001 .0004 >.0001
    Cognitive enhancement 2.79 (1.37) 3.55 (1.42) 4.26 (1.59) ns >.0001 >.0001 >.0001
    Craving 2.63 (1.65) 2.93 (1.67) 3.86 (1.82) >.0001 >.0001 .0011 >.0001
    Cue exposure/associative processes 3.39 (1.61) 4.85 (1.55) 5.54 (1.45) .0016 >.0001 .004 >.0001
    Loss of control 3.87 (1.27) 4.49 (1.31) 5.00 (1.31) >.0001 >.0001 >.0001 >.0001
    Negative reinforcement 4.04 (1.65) 4.40 (1.61) 5.15 (1.66) ns >.0001 .0006 >.0001
    Positive reinforcement 3.50 (1.63) 4.09 (1.81) 4.72 (1.78) ns >.0001 .0045 >.0001
    Social/environmental goads 3.63 (2.04) 3.88 (1.88) 4.00 (2.08) ns ns ns ns
    Taste/sensory processes 3.55 (1.49) 4.18 (1.55) 4.91 (1.51) .0135 >.0001 .0005 >.0001
    Tolerance 3.00 (1.64) 4.30 (1.62) 5.37 (1.31) >.0001 >.0001 >.0001 >.0001
    Weight control 2.57 (1.64) 2.94 (1.67) 3.42 (1.92) ns .0019 .0520 .0076
WISDM-68 total 42.29 (15.67) 52.08 (15.21) 61.74 (15.55) .0001 >.0001 >.0001 >.0001