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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2010 Jun 29;212(1):25–32. doi: 10.1007/s00213-010-1902-z

Table 1.

Outline of key laboratory session procedures and administration of self-reports

Time Procedure
8:30am Participants arrive. Cigarettes, lighters and matches confiscated. Baseline assessments of breath CO, breath alcohol, urine toxicology, urine pregnancy screen, height and weight obtained.
9:00am Participants in both study conditions provided a standard breakfast
12:00pm Lunch given to participants in nicotine deprived alone condition
6:00pm Dinner given to participants in nicotine deprived alone condition
6:30pm Blood draw to assay serum nicotine
6:45pm Pre-food craving priming task self-report packet, then food craving priming task (assessment of food craving during task)
6:55pm Post-food craving priming task/pre-delay period self-report packet (withdrawal measure omitted)
7:05pm Delay period begins, participants can smoke at any time they choose
7:55pm/end of delay End of delay period/+0 self-report packet, then smoking self-administration period begins
30-min later +30 self-report packet (withdrawal measure omitted)
60-min later + 60 self-report packet
9:15pm Dismissal