ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2018
Does exercise aid smoking cessation through reductions in anxiety sensitivity and dysphoria?
Article in Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05045326 (Effectiveness of a Smoking Cessation Intervention in a Mental Health Day Hospital), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of a Smoking Cessation Intervention in a Mental Health Day Hospital
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Exercise interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Approach Bias and Tobacco Craving as Mechanisms of the Effect of Approach Bias Retraining on Smoking Cessation.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025Trial
- Community-based smoking cessation treatment for adults with high anxiety sensitivity: a randomized clinical trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Trial
- Enhancing panic and smoking reduction treatment with D-Cycloserine: A pilot randomized clinical trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Trial
- Exercise-based interventions for smoking cessation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of sport and health science · 2026Review
- Effects of aerobic exercise on approach-avoidance responses and prefrontal activity in individuals with tobacco dependence.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Applying a behavioral economic approach to understanding smoking processes: The indirect effect of past quit experiences.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Efficacy and implementation of exercise-based smoking cessation treatment for adults with high anxiety sensitivity (STEP): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
- Exercise and Smoking Cessation.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2024Review
- Understanding and Managing Anxiety Sensitivity During Critical Illness and Long-Term Recovery.American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses · 2023Article
- The relationship between anxiety sensitivity and clinical outcomes in cardiac rehabilitation: A scoping review.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2022Article
- Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Review
- Add-on exercise interventions for smoking cessation in people with mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Article
- An Integrated mHealth App for Smoking Cessation in Black Smokers With Anxiety: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- 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
- If You Pay, Will They Come? Evaluating the Impact of Subsidies on Cessation Outcomes in the Walk or Run to Quit Program.Journal of smoking cessation · 2022Article
- Anxiety Sensitivity as a Malleable Mechanistic Target for Prevention Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Brief Treatment Interventions.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2021Article
- Dynamic associations between anxiety, depression, and tobacco use in older adults: Results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Article
- The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity in the Relation Between Pain Intensity with Substance Use and Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Smokers with Chronic Pain.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- A randomized controlled trial protocol for engaging distress tolerance and working memory to aid smoking cessation in low socioeconomic status (SES) adults.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveResearch shows that high anxiety sensitivity (AS) and dysphoria are related to poor smoking cessation outcomes. Engaging in exercise may contribute to improvement in smoking cessation outcomes through reductions in AS and dysphoria. In the current study, we examined whether exercise can aid smoking cessation through reductions in AS and dysphoria.
methodParticipants were sedentary and low activity adult daily smokers (N = 136) with elevated AS who participated in a randomized controlled trial comparing smoking cessation treatment (ST) plus an exercise intervention (ST + EX) to ST plus wellness education (ST + CTRL). Self-reported smoking status was assessed in-person weekly from baseline through week 16 (end of-treatment; EOT), at week 22 (4 months postquit day), and at week 30 (6 months postquit day), and verified biochemically.
resultsResults indicated that both AS and dysphoria at 6-month follow-up were significantly lower in the ST + EX group compared to the ST + CTRL group (controlling for baseline levels). Moreover, reductions in AS and dysphoria emerged as independent mechanisms of action explaining success in quitting.
conclusionsThese novel findings offer clinically significant evidence suggesting that vigorous-intensity exercise can effectively engage affective constructs in the context of smoking cessation. (PsycINFO Database Record
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