Efficacy of Virtual Reality for triggering smoking craving: Relation with level of presence and nicotine dependence
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Virtual Reality environments that reproduce typical context associated with tobacco use could be useful for smoking cessation. The main objective of this study was to confirm the validity of 8 environments to produce smoking craving and to determine the relation of craving with nicotine dependence and level of presence. Results showed that all the environments were able to generate desire to smoke and a direct relation was found between sense of presence and craving.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010