A prospective investigation of the synergistic effect of change in anxiety sensitivity and dysphoria on tobacco withdrawal.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Prevailing theory and research suggests the psychological and physiological discomfort associated with tobacco withdrawal may play a formative role in the risk of cessation failure. Yet, research elucidating cognitive-affective vulnerability characteristics that contribute to increased tobacco withdrawal severity during periods of planned abstinence is highly limited. In the current study, we explored whether smokers with greater reductions of Anxiety Sensitivity (AS) and dysphoria during a smoking cessation intervention would experience less severe postquit tobacco withdrawal.

Method

Specifically, the interactive effect of change (from preintervention baseline to quit day) in AS and dysphoria in relation to postquit withdrawal severity (quit day through 12 weeks p

SUBMITTER: Bakhshaie J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5754265 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature