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Smoking-Specific Experiential Avoidance is Indirectly Associated with Trait Worry and Smoking Processes among Treatment-Seeking Smokers.
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- Experiential Avoidance and Psychoactive Substance Use: Systematic Review.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Review
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Smoking: An Evaluation of IBS symptom severity and anxiety sensitivity among adults in the United States.Addictive behaviors · 2025Review
- The effects of emotional distress on attentional bias toward cigarette warnings according to smokers' anxiety levels.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- A multiple mediation model of trait worry and hazardous drinking among treatment-seeking smokers: the roles of coping and conformity drinking motives.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2020Article
- Worry, anxiety sensitivity, and electronic cigarettes among adults.Psychiatry research · 2018Article
- Sustained smoking abstinence is associated with reductions in smoking-specific experiential avoidance among treatment-seeking smokers.Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2016Article
- The Role of Smoking-Specific Experiential Avoidance in the Relation Between Perceived Stress and Tobacco Dependence, Perceived Barriers to Cessation, and Problems during Quit Attempts Among Treatment-Seeking Smokers.Journal of contextual behavioral science · 2016Article
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Limited work has examined worry, or apprehensive anticipation about future negative events, in terms of smoking. One potential explanatory factor is the tendency to respond inflexibly and with avoidance in the presence of smoking-related distress (smoking-specific experiential avoidance). Participants (n = 465) were treatment-seeking daily smokers. Cross-sectional (pre-treatment) self-report data were utilized to assess trait worry, smoking-specific experiential avoidance, and four smoking criterion variables: nicotine dependence, motivational aspects of quitting, perceived barriers to smoking cessation, and severity of problematic symptoms reported in past quit attempts. Trait worry was significantly associated with greater levels of nicotine dependence, motivation to quit smoking, perceived barriers for smoking cessation, and more severe problems while quitting in the past; associations occurred indirectly through higher levels of smoking-specific experiential avoidance. Findings provide initial support for the potential role of smoking-specific experiential avoidance in explaining the association between trait worry and a variety of smoking processes.
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