Nature and role of change in anxiety sensitivity during NRT-aided cognitive-behavioral smoking cessation treatment

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-62

  Assayag, Yaara ^a   Bernstein, Amit ^b   Zvolensky, Michael J ^b   Steeves, Dan ^c   Stewart, Sherry S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c Capital Health Addiction Prevention and Treatment Services   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Smoking; Smoking cessation; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECURRENT DISEASE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS;

ANXIETY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; RECURRENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84858711968     PISSN: 16506073     EISSN: 16512316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16506073.2011.632437     Document Type: Article

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