The current findings should be considered within the context of its limitations. Our findings may only generalize to treatment-seeking individuals with AUD and replication of current results would be needed in non-treatment seeking AUD or binge/heavy alcohol users. It should also be noted that the results were somewhat stronger in Study 1 as compared to Study 2. This is likely in part due to the larger sample size included in Study 1 as far more power is achieved by adding participants than number of assessments in intensive longitudinal designs (Bolger and Laurenceau, 2013). We also focused on daily evening reports of craving. However, craving not only fluctuates during the day, but also commonly occurs in the context of alcohol- and drug-related cues. Despite this, findings from other groups have found that craving can be sustained for as long as four hours before drug intake (Fatseas et al., 2015). This suggests that the effects of craving may be more sustained unless an intervention is introduced. The fact that craving continued to exert an impact on next-day drinking behavior over and above
