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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2008 Aug;16(4):301–312. doi: 10.1037/a0012640

Table 2.

Subjective and Biochemical Measures of Withdrawal, by Group

Nonsmokers (n = 56) Nondeprived smokers (n = 66) Deprived smokers (n = 47) F p
Carbon monoxide (ppm), M (SD) 2.3 (1.2)a 21.1 (8.9)b 4.9 (2.1)a 190.39 <.0001
WSWS, M (SD) 32.6 (12.0)a 38.7 (15.9)a 47.5 (17.5)b 12.26 <.0001
QSU, M (SD) 0.0 (0.0)a 20.9 (10.7)b 31.6 (12.9)c 150.59 <.0001
PANAS-Negative Affect, M (SD) 15.9 (5.2)a 16.3 (5.8)a 20.8 (8.6)b 8.74 .0002
PANAS-Positive Affect, M (SD) 31.4 (9.3)a 30.2 (8.8)a 24.9 (9.8)b 7.05 .001

Note. WSWS = Wisconsin Smoking Withdrawal Scale; QSU = Questionnaire of Smoking Urges–Brief; PANAS = Positive and Negative Affect Schedule. Groups with different superscript letters are significantly different in pairwise post-hoc tests.