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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2013 Jul 12;108(10):1836–1844. doi: 10.1111/add.12261

Table 2.

Pre Quit Phase Cigarette Smoking and Other Behavioral and Subjective Effects

Pre-Quit Phase Linear Regression Models Testing Medication Effect
Placebo (n=154) Naltrexone (n=161) Mean Difference (95% CI) p values
Unadjusted: Medication Effect Only Adjusted for Demographic Characteristics Adjusted for Demographics and Nausea Adjusted for Demographics, Nausea and Baseline
Primary Outcomea
 Cigarettes per day −2.93 (4.54) −4.21 (4.45) 1.28 (0.28 to 2.27) 0.01 0.02 <0.05 0.02
Secondary Behavioral Outcomes a
 Alcoholic drinks per drinking day −1.98 (2.98) −1.94 (2.77) 0.95 (0.21 to 1.70) 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.04
 Caffeinated drinks per day −1.22 (2.84) −1.35 (2.21) 0.13 (−0.46 to 0.71) 0.7 0.83 0.95 0.9
Secondary Subjective Effects b:
 Smoking Urge 2.58 (0.64) 2.32 (0.65) 0.25 (0.11 to 0.40) <0.01 <0.01 0.01 0.02
 Cigarette Pleasure 2.40 (0.62) 2.22 (0.63) 0.18 (0.04 to 0.32) 0.01 0.01 0.06 0.07
 Cigarette Taste 2.32 (0.61) 2.12 (0.63) 0.19 (0.05 to 0.33) 0.01 0.01 0.04 0.08
 Appetite ratings 2.93 (0.58) 2.72 (0.66) 0.20 (0.07 to 0.34) <0.01 <0.01 0.09 0.42
 Food Pleasure 2.88 (0.48) 2.72 (0.58) 0.17 (0.05 to 0.28) 0.01 0.01 0.08 0.30
 Sweet food consumption 2.83 (0.65) 2.64 (0.69) 0.19 (0.05 to 0.34) 0.01 0.01 0.08 0.11

Note: Data are Mean change score (SD), or Mean score (SD).

a

Behavioral outcomes (cigarettes, alcoholic and caffeinated drinks) are expressed as change scores during pre-quit days 4–6 from baseline (2 weeks prior to enrollment).

b

Subjective effects were rating average on the 5-point scale and did not have a pre-treatment baseline.