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Strength of urges to smoke: 0 (no urges) to 5 (extremely strong urges).
number of past-year quit attempts; time with urges to smoke; and strength of urges to smoke.
Secondly, strength of urges to smoke was measured by asking: 'In general, how strong have the urges to smoke been?
62 Strength of urges to smoke (SUTS) is another measure of dependence found to be more reliable for predicting cessation than the HSI.
E-cigarette users smoked more cigarettes, and were more dependent by the strength of urges measure and HSI than those using no aid.
Our measure of dependence (strength of urges to smoke) assumed that the score relative to other smokers would remain the same from pre- to post-quitting [ 32, 33].
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Strengths of urges to smoke were higher in smokers than in non-smokers (see Table 2).
The sample followed up differed from those not followed-up by being more likely to be female, older, less motivated to stop smoking, and reporting higher strengths of urges to smoke at baseline.
Items relating to the strength and frequency of urges can be combined to produce a composite score (MPSS-C); this is also the case for combined mood items (MPSS-M).
Strength of urge to smoke and withdrawal symptoms on the MPSS, measured up to 8 weeks, 3 months and 6 months to assess long term effects of AR.
Simple self-report measures of urges are available (Fidler, Shahab, & West, 2011) and might complement measures of automaticity and cue-dependence, as a proxy for the strength of the cue-response association that underpins habit.
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