THE EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING ON THE RESPONSE TO STRESS IN A DRIVING SIMULATOR
DETAILS ARE GIVEN OF EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH SOME BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF CIGARETTE SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS EXPOSED TO VARYING DEGREES OF STRESS IN A DRIVING SIMULATOR WERE COMPARED. IT WAS FOUND THAT, WHEN THE SMOKERS WERE SMOKING A CIGARETTE, SOME OF THEIR REACTION TIMES TO LIGHT SIGNALS DIFFERED SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THOSE OF NON-SMOKERS, SOME BEING LONGER AND SOME SHORTER. THESE DIFFERENCES DISAPPEARED WHEN THE SMOKERS WERE NOT SMOKING. OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS, ONLY HEART RATE DIFFERED SIGNIFICANTLY BETWEEN SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS, BEING HIGHER AT ALL LEVELS OF STRESS IN THE SMOKERS. THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN BLOOD PRESSURE, CALF BLOOD FLOW AND RESPIRATION RATE BETWEEN SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS. THE RESULTS OF THE CATTELL SIXTEEN PERSONALITY FACTOR QUESTIONNAIRE SHOWED THAT THE SMOKERS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE EXTROVERTED AND SELF-RELIANT THAN THE NON-SMOKERS. THE RESULTS ARE DISCUSSED IN RELATION TO THE PHARMACOLOGY OF CIGARETTE SMOKING. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT THE DIFFERENCES IN REACTION TIMES AND HEART RATES BETWEEN SMOKERS AND NON-SMOKERS WERE A CONSEQUENCE OF CIGARETTE SMOKING. /TRRL/
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Authors:
- Ashton, H
- Savage, R D
- Telford, R
- Thompson, J W
- Watson, D W
- Publication Date: 1972-7
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 546-56
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Serial:
- British Journal of Pharmacology
- Volume: 45
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Macmillan Press Limited
- ISSN: 0007-1188
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Behavior; Blood pressure; Drivers; Driving simulators; Drunk driving; Emergency response time; Physiological aspects; Reaction time; Stresses; Tobacco smoke
- Old TRIS Terms: Stress conditions
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00222505
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 31 2003 12:00AM