ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2014
Anxiety sensitivity as an amplifier of subjective and behavioral tobacco abstinence effects.
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- Effects of anxiety sensitivity on cannabis, alcohol, and nicotine use among adolescents: evaluating pathways through anxiety, withdrawal symptoms, and coping motives.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- Multi-method assessment of distress tolerance and smoking-related factors among adult daily smokers.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Anxiety sensitivity components in relation to alcohol and cannabis use, motives, and problems in treatment-seeking cigarette smokers.Addictive behaviors · 2018Article
- Early onset tobacco cigarette smokers exhibit deficits in response inhibition and sustained attention.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018Article
- A prospective investigation of the synergistic effect of change in anxiety sensitivity and dysphoria on tobacco withdrawal.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2018Article
- Anxiety sensitivity predicts increased perceived exertion during a 1-mile walk test among treatment-seeking smokers.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Prolonged cannabis withdrawal in young adults with lifetime psychiatric illness.Preventive medicine · 2017Article
- Anxiety sensitivity in smokers with indicators of cardiovascular disease.Psychology, health & medicine · 2017Article
- Anxiety sensitivity and nonmedical benzodiazepine use among adults with opioid use disorder.Addictive behaviors · 2017Article
- Anxiety sensitivity and smoking variability among treatment seeking smokers.Addictive disorders & their treatment · 2016Article
- The roles of sex, anxious reactivity to bodily arousal, and anxiety sensitivity in coping motives for cigarette smoking among adolescents.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnxiety sensitivity, a transdiagnostic cognitive vulnerability factor described as an amplifier of negative emotional states, is implicated in the maintenance of cigarette smoking and cessation difficulties. The current study aimed to examine the role of anxiety sensitivity in predicting abstinence-induced changes in nicotine withdrawal, smoking urges and smoking behavior during an experimental relapse analogue task (RAT).
methodParticipants were 258 non-treatment seeking smokers (M [SD] age=44.0 [10.73]; 69.8% male). Participants attended two counterbalanced experimental sessions including smoking deprivation (16 h of smoking abstinence) and smoking as usual. The Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal Scale (MNWS) and Brief Questionnaire of Smoking Urges (QSU) were completed at each session in addition to the RAT. Hierarchical regressions were conducted to examine the predictive impact of anxiety sensitivity on withdrawal and urges during smoking deprivation. Follow-up mediational analyses were conducted to examine whether abstinence-induced withdrawal and urges mediated responding during the RAT.
resultsAnxiety sensitivity amplified the effects of experimentally manipulated acute abstinence on subjective nicotine withdrawal symptoms and smoking urges. Additionally, higher levels of anxiety sensitivity indirectly predicted shorter latency to smoking initiation after deprivation during the RAT through the effects of greater abstinence-induced nicotine withdrawal and smoking urges. Anxiety sensitivity was unrelated to increased smoking during the RAT, although this may be partially attributed to the type of laboratory assessment employed.
conclusionsElevated anxiety sensitivity appears to impact initiation of smoking after nicotine deprivation through the effects of abstinence-induced withdrawal and smoking urges.
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