Pain as a predictor and consequence of tobacco abstinence effects amongst African American smokers.

ABSTRACT: African Americans are subject to health disparities in smoking and chronic pain. Given that nicotine has analgesic properties, increases in acute pain may be an expression of the tobacco abstinence syndrome, particularly among African American smokers with chronic pain. This report is a secondary analysis of data from an ongoing study of individual differences in laboratory-derived tobacco abstinence phenotypes in African American smokers. We tested whether overnight smoking abstinence increased acute pain and whether abstinence-induced changes in acute pain were correlated with other expressions of tobacco abstinence and amplified among smokers with chronic pain. African American smokers (N = 214; 10+ cig/day) attended a baseline visit (when chronic pain was reported), and two counterbala

SUBMITTER: Bello MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473762 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature