caa a22 4500 469119578 CHVBK 20180323133134.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02247421 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02247421 Function of cigarette smoking in relation to examinations [Elektronische Daten] [Robert West, Sarah Lennox] Eighty-two college students took part in a study on motives underlying increases in cigarette smoking prior to examinations. One group was tested a month before, and a second group was tested the day before, the start of examinations. Measures were taken of current cigarette consumption, general anxiety, anxiety about forthcoming exams, the importance of sedative and stimulant smoking motives, hours spent revising and in other activities and amount smoked during these activities. The results indicated that the students increased the hours they spent revising and there was a corresponding increase in the number of cigarettes smoked during this activity. They also reported an increase in the importance of stimulant smoking motives. Anxiety levels increased in the run up to exams but there was no increase in sedative smoking motives. The results raise the issue of whether any anxiolytic action of nicotine may be limited to acute stressors and also whether smokers' use of cigarettes to help them stay alert during revision translates into improved examination performance. Springer-Verlag, 1992 Smoking nationallicence Nicotine nationallicence Examination anxiety nationallicence Stress nationallicence Arousal nationallicence West Robert Psychology Department, St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, SW17 0RE, London, UK aut Lennox Sarah Psychology Department, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University, TW20 0EX, Egham Surrey, UK aut Psychopharmacology Springer-Verlag 108/4(1992-09-01), 456-459 0033-3158 108:4<456 1992 108 213 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02247421 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02247421 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- West Robert Psychology Department, St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, SW17 0RE, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lennox Sarah Psychology Department, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University, TW20 0EX, Egham Surrey, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychopharmacology Springer-Verlag 108/4(1992-09-01), 456-459 0033-3158 108:4<456 1992 108 213 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer