The role of smoking inflexibility/avoidance in the relation between anxiety sensitivity and tobacco use and beliefs among treatment-seeking smokers

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 229-237

  Zvolensky, Michael J ^a   Farris, Samantha G ^a   Schmidt, Norman B ^b   Smits, Jasper A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety sensitivity; Avoidance; Psychological inflexibility; Smoking behavior; Smoking cessation; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE AND INFLEXIBILITY SCALE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS IDENTIFICATION TEST; ANXIETY; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY INDEX III; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BARRIERS TO CESSATION SCALE; CANNABIS USE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION VARIABLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAGERSTROM TEST FOR NICOTINE DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING QUESTIONNAIRE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING CONSEQUENCES QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING HISTORY QUESTIONNAIRE; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; TOBACCO; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TOBACCO USE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901841579     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: 19362293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035306     Document Type: Article

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