Open AccessA prospective investigation of the synergistic effect of change in anxiety sensitivity and dysphoria on tobacco withdrawal.
Author(s) -
Jafar Bakhshaie,
Paulina A. Kulesz,
Lorra Garey,
Kirsten J. Langdon,
Michael S. Businelle,
Adam M. Leventhal,
Matthew W. Gallagher,
Norman B. Schmidt,
Kara Manning,
Renée D. Goodwin,
Michael J. Zvolensky
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of consulting and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.582
H-Index - 240
eISSN - 1939-2117
pISSN - 0022-006X
DOI - 10.1037/ccp0000256
Subject(s) - dysphoria , smoking cessation , abstinence , anxiety sensitivity , psychology , anxiety , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , pathology
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.