Community-based smoking cessation treatment for adults with high anxiety sensitivity: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

People with anxiety disorders are more likely to smoke and less likely to succeed when they try to quit. Anxiety sensitivity may underlie both phenomena, such that people with high anxiety sensitivity react to interoceptive distress by avoidance. This study aimed to test the efficacy of an exercise program that induced interoceptive distress and thereby created tolerance to this distress in a safe environment.

Design, setting and participants

Randomized clinical trial at four YMCA branches in Austin, Texas, USA. Participants [n = 150; 130 (86.7%) white; 101 (67.3%) female; mean_age  = 38.6, standard deviation (SD)_age  = 10.4] were adult, daily smokers with high anxiety sensitivity motivated to quit smoking, who reported no regular mod

SUBMITTER: Smits JAJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10091508 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature