Smoking abstinence and reinstatement effects in adolescent cigarette smokers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The study objectives were to examine smoking abstinence and reinstatement effects on subjective experience and cognitive performance among adolescent smokers.

Methods

Adolescents (aged 14-17 years, 60 daily smokers and 32 nonsmokers) participated. Participants completed baseline assessments (Session 1) and returned to the laboratory 1-3 days later to repeat assessments (Session 2); half of the smokers were randomly assigned to 15-17 hr tobacco abstinence preceding Session 2.

Results

During Session 2, abstaining smokers reported significantly greater increases in withdrawal symptoms, smoking urges, and negative affect compared with smokers who did not abstain and compared with nonsmokers. Smoking reinstatement reversed abstinence effects, returning to base

SUBMITTER: Colby SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2902909 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature