Two experiments were done to study inhibition of cue-dependent salivat
ion and craving responses. Experiment 1 suggests that total prevention
of tasting during cue exposure inhibits salivation responses to choco
late cues. On the other hand, salivation was triggered by chocolate cu
es after tasting a very small amount of chocolate, indicating a very r
obust and rapid learning of conditioned salivation responses. However,
prevention of tasting during cue exposure did not affect craving, sug
gesting that this method cannot decrease craving or that craving is af
fected at different rate than salivation. Experiment 2 tested the hypo
thesis that tasting irrelevant food during repeated exposure to chocol
ate cues would inhibit anticipatory salivation and craving responses t
o these cues. No support for this hypothesis was observed.