Trial reportAddiction (Abingdon, England)2021
Community-based smoking cessation treatment for adults with high anxiety sensitivity: a randomized clinical trial.
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- Effects of exercise of different intensities on withdrawal symptoms among people with substance use disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Pooled it
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- Interpretation bias modification for hostility to facilitate smoking cessation in a sample with elevated trait anger: A randomized trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2024Trial
- Anxiety sensitivity reduction-smoking cessation intervention among individuals who engage in dual cigarette and cannabis use: A secondary analysis.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Trial
- Approach bias retraining to augment smoking cessation: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Trial
- The association between anxiety sensitivity and eating expectancies in Hispanic emerging adult college students.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2026Article
- Cluster analysis of anxiety sensitivity among adults who smoke.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2026Article
- Exercise-based interventions for smoking cessation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of sport and health science · 2026Review
- 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
- Anxiety-related constructs and smoking outcome expectancies among Latinx smokers.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Anxiety Sensitivity Among Non-Hispanic Black Adults: Relations to Mental Health and Psychosomatic States.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Anxiety sensitivity and reasons for smoking among Black smokers.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Latinx Individuals Who Smoke Daily with and without a Probable Anxiety Disorder: Differences in Smoking Behavior and Beliefs about Abstinence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Anxiety sensitivity in relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptom clusters among young adults with probable post-traumatic stress disorder.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 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
- Anxiety sensitivity and its association with perceived barriers for quitting, smoking inflexibility, and severity of quit problems among Black smokers.Journal of ethnicity in substance abuseArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsPeople with anxiety disorders are more likely to smoke and less likely to succeed when they try to quit. Anxiety sensitivity may underlie both phenomena, such that people with high anxiety sensitivity react to interoceptive distress by avoidance. This study aimed to test the efficacy of an exercise program that induced interoceptive distress and thereby created tolerance to this distress in a safe environment. DESIGN, SETTING AND
participantsRandomized clinical trial at four YMCA branches in Austin, Texas, USA. Participants [n = 150; 130 (86.7%) white; 101 (67.3%) female; mean
interventionsParticipants were assigned a YMCA personal trainer who guided them through a 15-week intervention aerobic exercise program. Participants assigned to the personalized intervention trained at 60-85% of their heart rate reserve (HRR), whereas participants assigned to the control intervention trained at 20-40% of their HRR. Participants in both groups received standard behavioral support and nicotine replacement therapy. MEASUREMENTS: The primary outcome was biologically verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence (PPA) at 6-month follow-up.
findingsSixty-one per cent of participants were available at the 6-month follow-up. PPA at 6 months was higher in the personalized intervention than the control intervention [27.6 versus 14.8%; odds ratio (OR) = 2.20, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.28, 3.80, P = 0.005], assuming missing at random. Anxiety sensitivity declined in both groups with no evidence that this differed between groups.
conclusionsAn exercise program of high intensity increased abstinence from smoking in people with high anxiety sensitivity, but may not have done so by reducing anxiety sensitivity.
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