login

The effect of varying the nicotine content of cigarettes on human smoking behaviour

PsychopharmacologyPublished 1 January 1971
Chris Frith
Citations78
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.16
SNIP0.97

TL;DR

It was found that the larger the content of nicotine in the cigarettes offered the smaller was the number smoked during the 8-h period, and the more nicotine there was in a cigarette the longer a subject took to smoke it.

Abstract

9 subjects were given cigarettes to smoke containing 3 different amounts of nicotine. It was found that the larger the content of nicotine in the cigarettes offered the smaller was the number smoked during the 8-h period. A linear relationship between nicotine content and time to smoke a single cigaretts was found such that the more nicotine there was in a cigarette the longer a subject took to smoke it.

Keywords

Medicine