Temporal networks of tobacco withdrawal symptoms during smoking cessation treatment.

ABSTRACT: A recently developed network perspective on tobacco withdrawal posits that withdrawal symptoms causally influence one another across time, rather than simply being indicators of a latent syndrome. Evidence supporting a network perspective would shift the focus of tobacco withdrawal research and intervention toward studying and treating individual withdrawal symptoms and intersymptom associations. Here we construct and examine temporal tobacco withdrawal networks that describe the interplay among withdrawal symptoms across time using experience-sampling data from 1,210 participants (58.35% female, 86.24% White) undergoing smoking cessation treatment. We also construct person-specific withdrawal networks and capture individual differences in the extent to which withdrawal symptom networks pr

SUBMITTER: Lydon-Staley DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7818515 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature