ArticleCognitive behaviour therapy2020
Smoking and social anxiety: the role of false safety behaviors.
Article in Cognitive behaviour therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Psychological Distress: A Mediating Factor in the Relationship Between Sleep Bruxism and Tobacco Smoking.Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Relationship Between Cigarette Smoking and Awake Bruxism: Does Smoking Increase the Frequency of Masticatory Muscle Activities?Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Anxiety and Cannabis-Related Behaviors Among Black/African American Undergraduates: The Role of False Safety Behaviors.Substance use & misuse · 2025Article
- Mobile Intervention to Address Cannabis Use Disorder Among Black Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Social Anxiety and Cannabis-Related Problems: The Serial Roles of Distress Tolerance and Cannabis Use Motives.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- The effects of emotional distress on attentional bias toward cigarette warnings according to smokers' anxiety levels.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Lifestyle and Social Factors Exacerbated on the Prevalence of Mood Disorders and Functional Dyspepsia Among Neonatal Nurses in China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Biopsychosocial Model Social Anxiety and Substance Use Revised.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- A 5-Factor Framework for Assessing Tobacco Use Disorder.Tobacco use insights · 2021Article
- The Role of Anxiety in Smoking Onset, Severity, and Cessation-Related Outcomes: a Review of Recent Literature.Current psychiatry reports · 2020Review
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Abstract
Despite the negative health consequences associated with smoking, most smokers find it difficult to quit. This is especially true for smokers with elevated social anxiety. One factor that may play a role in maintaining smoking with elevated anxiety is false safety behavior (FSB), behaviors geared toward decreasing anxiety short-term but that maintain or increase anxiety long-term. The present study tested whether FSB explained the relation of social anxiety severity with smoking among 71 current smokers. Avoidance-related FSB was the only type of FSB related to cigarettes smoked per day (CPD) and it was robustly related to more CPD. Further, social anxiety was related to CPD indirectly via FSB-Avoidance. Findings suggest that more frequent use of avoidance behaviors to manage anxiety may maintain smoking and may partially explain the high rates of smoking among those with elevated social anxiety. Thus, FSB may be a promising target in smoking cessation interventions, especially among those with elevated social anxiety.
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