ArticleAddictive behaviors2015
Smoking-specific experiential avoidance cognition: explanatory relevance to pre- and post-cessation nicotine withdrawal, craving, and negative affect.
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- Examination of smoking inflexibility as a mechanism linking anxiety sensitivity and severity of smoking behavior.The American journal on addictions · 2015Trial
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- Anxiety Sensitivity Physical and Cognitive Concerns in Relation to Smoking-oriented Cognition: An Examination Among Treatment-seeking Adults Who Smoke.Journal of addiction medicineTrial
- Behavioral, not self-reported, experiential avoidance predicts early treatment discontinuation at residential substance use treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- The link between tobacco smoking and susceptibility to misinformation.Psychopharmacology · 2025Article
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- The interactive effect of anxiety sensitivity and negative smoking cessation cognitions on reductions in cigarette consumption during acute cessation.Addictive behaviors · 2021Article
- Smoking and social anxiety: the role of false safety behaviors.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2020Article
- Understanding quit patterns from a randomized clinical trial: Latent classes, predictors, and long-term abstinence.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- Sex differences in smoking constructs and abstinence: The explanatory role of smoking outcome expectancies.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018Article
- Smoking Consequences Questionnaire: A reevaluation of the psychometric properties across two independent samples of smokers.Psychological assessment · 2018Article
- Today's decisions, Tomorrow's outcomes: Does self-control explain the educational smoking gradient?Social science research · 2018Article
- Delta coherence in resting-state EEG predicts the reduction in cigarette craving after hypnotic aversion suggestions.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Get with the program: Adherence to a smartphone app for smoking cessation.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
- Treatment attrition: Associations with negative affect smoking motives and barriers to quitting among treatment-seeking smokers.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
- Posttraumatic stress symptom severity and cognitive-based smoking processes among trauma-exposed treatment-seeking smokers: The role of perceived stress.Addictive behaviors · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundNegative-reinforcement based cognitive processes have been implicated in the maintenance of cigarette smoking. Given the expectation that smoking will attenuate aversive internal experiences, smokers may be particularly unwilling to experience or remain in contact with smoking-related distress (i.e., experiential avoidance). Yet, there is little known about a cognitive-based process termed smoking-specific experiential avoidance with regard to withdrawal, craving, or negative affect during a quit attempt.
methodData were collected from adult daily smokers (n = 259) participating in a larger smoking cessation trial. Pre- and post-quit experiences of nicotine withdrawal, craving, and negative affect were examined in terms of cognitive-based smoking-specific experimental avoidance, measured by the Avoidance and Inflexibility Scale (AIS).
resultsResults indicated that baseline smoking-specific experiential avoidance was associated with greater overall levels of withdrawal, craving, and negative affect at treatment initiation (pre-cessation). Reductions in smoking-specific experiential avoidance from baseline to quit day were associated with increased likelihood of quit day abstinence. Such reductions were also predictive of lower levels of nicotine withdrawal, craving, and negative affect on quit day. Also, less reduction in experiential avoidance was associated with experiencing greater withdrawal in the early phase of quitting. DISCUSSION: The impact of cognitive-based experiential avoidance pertaining to smoking impacts both pre- and post-cessation experiences in terms of negative affect, withdrawal, and smoking cravings and may represent an important treatment target.
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