Anxiety sensitivity class membership moderates the effects of pre-quit reduction in anxiety sensitivity on quit-day tobacco craving.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although anxiety sensitivity has been primarily conceptualized as a dimensional latent construct, empirical evidence suggests that it also maintains a latent class structure, reflecting low-, moderate-, and high-risk underlying classes. The present study sought to explore whether these anxiety sensitivity classes moderated the relations between the degree of pre-quit reductions in anxiety sensitivity and the severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms and craving experienced on quit-day.

Methods

Participants included 195 adult smokers (47% female; Mage=39.4) participating in a larger "anxiety sensitivity reduction-smoking cessation" intervention trial.

Results

Anxiety sensitivity class significantly moderated relations between pre-quit reduction in anxiety sen

SUBMITTER: Bakhshaie J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7497800 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature