Trial reportJournal of studies on alcohol and drugs2015
Anxiety sensitivity and pre-cessation smoking processes: testing the independent and combined mediating effects of negative affect-reduction expectancies and motives.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Impacto - A single-arm open-label pilot trial of a digital-based integrated smoking cessation program for Spanish-speaking Hispanic individuals who smoke: Development, feasibility, engagement, and clinical outcomes.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Trial
- Personalized Feedback for Smoking and Anxiety Sensitivity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Substance use & misuse · 2021Trial
- Applying a behavioral economic approach to understanding smoking processes: The indirect effect of past quit experiences.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a mobile-based health technology for smoking cessation: Mobile Anxiety Sensitivity Program.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- 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
- Effects of anxiety sensitivity reduction on smoking abstinence: An analysis from a panic prevention program.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
- Pain-related anxiety as a predictor of early lapse and relapse to cigarette smoking.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2017Article
- The Moderating Effect of Smoking Status on the Relation between Anxiety Sensitivity, Sexual Compulsivity, and Suicidality among People with HIV/AIDS.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Treatment attrition: Associations with negative affect smoking motives and barriers to quitting among treatment-seeking smokers.Addictive behaviors · 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
- Evaluation of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 among treatment-seeking smokers.Psychological assessment · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveAnxiety sensitivity appears to be relevant in understanding the nature of emotional symptoms and disorders associated with smoking. Negative-reinforcement smoking expectancies and motives are implicated as core regulatory processes that may explain, in part, the anxiety sensitivity-smoking interrelations; however, these pathways have received little empirical attention.
methodParticipants (N = 471) were adult treatment-seeking daily smokers assessed for a smoking-cessation trial who provided baseline data; 157 participants provided within-treatment (pre-cessation) data. Anxiety sensitivity was examined as a cross-sectional predictor of several baseline smoking processes (nicotine dependence, perceived barriers to cessation, severity of prior withdrawal-related quit problems) and pre-cessation processes including nicotine withdrawal and smoking urges (assessed during 3 weeks before the quit day). Baseline negative-reinforcement smoking expectancies and motives were tested as simultaneous mediators via parallel multiple mediator models.
resultsHigher levels of anxiety sensitivity were related to higher levels of nicotine dependence, greater perceived barriers to smoking cessation, more severe withdrawal-related problems during prior quit attempts, and greater average withdrawal before the quit day; effects were indirectly explained by the combination of both mediators. Higher levels of anxiety sensitivity were not directly related to pre-cessation smoking urges but were indirectly related through the independent and combined effects of the mediators.
conclusionsThese empirical findings bolster theoretical models of anxiety sensitivity and smoking and identify targets for nicotine dependence etiology research and cessation interventions.
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