Jump to full article: New Scientist, 2003-05-10
Author: Shaoni Bhattacharya
Intro: Time really does pass more slowly when you are gasping for cigarette, reveals a new study demonstrating that smokers who are deprived of cigarettes have an altered perception of time.
US researchers found that when regular smokers gave up their habit, their perception of passing time was stretched by 50 per cent.
They believe that this process is linked to underlying biological processes as well as psychological and behavioural ones. . .
Klein told New Scientist that the findings "open the door to trying to understand what's going on clinically with stopping smoking".
Journal reference: Psychopharmacology Bulletin
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[The findings] open the door to trying to understand what's going on clinically with stopping smoking.
Laura Cousino Klein, lead author of a new study demonstrating that smokers who are deprived of cigarettes have an altered perception of time.
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