Delayed Discounting

Current findings indicate that delayed discounting is a potential therapeutic target for tobacco cessation. | Behavioral outcomes are devalued as a function of the delay until they are experienced. | Thus, understanding how delay discounting influences intertemporal choice between smaller, sooner and larger, later outcomes is critical and may lead to efficacious interventions for tobacco use. | This process, known as delayed discounting, is reliably associated with cigarette smoking and other tobacco use.