Anhedonia and smoking cessation among Spanish-speaking Mexican-Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Smoking cessation is associated with improved health and reduced risk of disease. Understanding specific factors that are associated with smoking cessation is important both for identifying those who may have the greatest difficulty quitting smoking and tailoring smoking cessation interventions accordingly. Low positive affect/anhedonia, a key transdiagnostic symptom of several psychiatric disorders, is associated with lower levels of smoking cessation in the general population, but to date, few studies have examined factors influencing smoking cessation among Spanish-speaking Mexican-American smokers.

Methods

The current study examined whether low positive affect/anhedonia was inversely related to cessation status across 3 time points among Spanish-speaking Mexica

SUBMITTER: Haslam AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504546 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature