the aim of this study was examination the relationship between mindfulness and drug craving in addicts undergoing methadone maintenance treatment.the subjects of this research were 80 addicts undergoing methadone maintenance treatment selected through available sampling from four addiction treatment center in ahvaz from march 2012 to september 2012. two questionnaires to examine the variables o...

Food cravings are a common, yet poorly understood phenomenon. Past attempts to explain them with a focus purely on physiological mechanisms have been unsuccessful. Four studies examine the hypothesis that food cravings are best conceptualized in terms of socio-cultural and psychological factors, looking specifically at the example of perimenstrual chocolate craving. Study 1 demonstrates that th...

Women high in dietary restraint ("restrainers") increase food intake more than nonrestrainers following emotional arousal. When restrained smokers are deprived of cigarettes during elevated mood states, nicotine craving should increase with food craving. The present study investigated the interaction of smoking and affect on food intake in 60 women, 18-25 years old, who were identified as restr...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects social appearance anxiety adult individuals who applied a private nutrition and diet clinic in Istanbul province on their food choice its relationship with anthropometric measurements.
 Method: Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS) Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) including questions participants’ sociodemographic characteristics...

In developed countries, obesity has become an epidemic resulting in enormous health care costs for society and serious medical complications for individuals. The homeostatic regulation of food intake is critically dependent on top-down control of reward-driven food craving. There is accumulating evidence from animal studies that the neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) is involved in regulating hunger s...

OBJECTIVE Drug craving is defined as an urge to continue substance abuse. Drug dependents use different terms to express their subjective feeling of craving. This study was an attempt to generate an understanding of craving terminology among different groups of Persian speaking Iranian opiate dependents. METHOD Terms used for the meaning of drug craving were listed by 36 ex-opiate dependents ...

The premise of cognitive therapy is that one can overcome the irresistible temptation of highly palatable foods by actively restructuring the way one thinks about food. Testing this idea, participants in the present study were instructed to passively view foods, up-regulate food palatability thoughts, apply cognitive reappraisal (e.g., thinking about health consequences), or suppress food palat...