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Khosravani V, Nikčević AV, Spada MM, Samimi Ardestani SM, Najafi M. The Independent Contribution of Positive and Negative Metacognitions About Smoking to Urge to Smoke, Withdrawal Symptoms and Dependence in Smoking-Dependent Men. Clin Psychol Psychother 2024; 31:e3024. [PMID: 38940697 DOI: 10.1002/cpp.3024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2023] [Revised: 06/08/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024]
Abstract
Previous research has indicated that various factors, such as psychological distress, distress intolerance, anhedonia, impulsivity and smoking metacognitions, have been individually linked to the urge to smoke, withdrawal symptoms and dependence. However, these factors have not been collectively examined to determine whether smoking metacognitions independently and significantly contribute to these outcomes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of distress intolerance, anhedonia, impulsivity and smoking metacognitions on the urge to smoke, withdrawal symptoms and dependency in men who are dependent on smoking. A total of 300 smoking-dependent men completed psychological scales and smoking-related measures. The findings of the study indicated that positive metacognitions about emotion regulation significantly predicted the urge to smoke, even when accounting for other significant predictors such as the number of daily cigarettes smoked, psychological distress, anhedonia and impulsivity. Furthermore, positive metacognitions about cognitive regulation were found to be a significant predictor of withdrawal symptoms, independent of other significant predictors such as psychological distress and the urge to smoke. Smoking dependence was predicted by negative metacognitions about uncontrollability beyond other significant predictors, including the number of daily cigarettes smoked and distress intolerance. These results highlight the role of metacognitions about smoking in both short- and long-term clinical outcomes related to smoking. Consequently, addressing such beliefs during treatment for smoking dependence should be an important therapeutic goal.
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- Vahid Khosravani
- Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Psychology, School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK
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- Division of Psychology, School of Applied Sciences, London South Bank University, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
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Gueguen MCM, Anlló H, Bonagura D, Kong J, Hafezi S, Palminteri S, Konova AB. Recent Opioid Use Impedes Range Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning in Human Addiction. Biol Psychiatry 2024; 95:974-984. [PMID: 38101503 PMCID: PMC11065633 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Drugs like opioids are potent reinforcers thought to co-opt value-based decisions by overshadowing other rewarding outcomes, but how this happens at a neurocomputational level remains elusive. Range adaptation is a canonical process of fine-tuning representations of value based on reward context. Here, we tested whether recent opioid exposure impacts range adaptation in opioid use disorder, potentially explaining why shifting decision making away from drug taking during this vulnerable period is so difficult. METHODS Participants who had recently (<90 days) used opioids (n = 34) or who had abstained from opioid use for ≥ 90 days (n = 20) and comparison control participants (n = 44) completed a reinforcement learning task designed to induce robust contextual modulation of value. Two models were used to assess the latent process that participants engaged while making their decisions: 1) a Range model that dynamically tracks context and 2) a standard Absolute model that assumes stationary, objective encoding of value. RESULTS Control participants and ≥90-days-abstinent participants with opioid use disorder exhibited choice patterns consistent with range-adapted valuation. In contrast, participants with recent opioid use were more prone to learn and encode value on an absolute scale. Computational modeling confirmed the behavior of most control participants and ≥90-days-abstinent participants with opioid use disorder (75%), but a minority in the recent use group (38%), was better fit by the Range model than the Absolute model. Furthermore, the degree to which participants relied on range adaptation correlated with duration of continuous abstinence and subjective craving/withdrawal. CONCLUSIONS Reduced context adaptation to available rewards could explain difficulty deciding about smaller (typically nondrug) rewards in the aftermath of drug exposure.
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- Maëlle C M Gueguen
- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Health Institute and University Behavioral Health Care, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Piscataway, New Jersey; Intercultural Cognitive Network, Tokyo, Japan
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- Intercultural Cognitive Network, Tokyo, Japan; Watanabe Laboratory, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U960, École Normale Supérieure-Université de Recherche Paris Science et Lettres, Paris, France
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Health Institute and University Behavioral Health Care, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Piscataway, New Jersey; Intercultural Cognitive Network, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Health Institute and University Behavioral Health Care, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Health Institute and University Behavioral Health Care, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Piscataway, New Jersey
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- Intercultural Cognitive Network, Tokyo, Japan; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U960, École Normale Supérieure-Université de Recherche Paris Science et Lettres, Paris, France
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- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Health Institute and University Behavioral Health Care, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Piscataway, New Jersey; Intercultural Cognitive Network, Tokyo, Japan.
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Biernacki K, Molokotos E, Han C, Dillon DG, Leventhal AM, Janes AC. Enhanced decision-making in nicotine dependent individuals who abstain: A computational analysis using Hierarchical Drift Diffusion Modeling. Drug Alcohol Depend 2023; 250:110890. [PMID: 37480798 PMCID: PMC10530296 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.110890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2023] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/24/2023]
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BACKGROUND Variability in decision-making capacity and reward responsiveness may underlie differences in the ability to abstain from smoking. Computational modeling of choice behavior, as with the Hierarchical Drift Diffusion Model (HDDM), can help dissociate reward responsiveness from underlying components of decision-making. Here we used the HDDM to identify which decision-making or reward-related parameters, extracted from data acquired in a reward processing task, contributed to the ability of people who smoke that are not seeking treatment to abstain from cigarettes during a laboratory task. METHODS 80 adults who smoke cigarettes completed the Probabilistic Reward Task (PRT) - a signal detection task with a differential reinforcement schedule - following smoking as usual, and the Relapse Analogue Task (RAT) - a task in which participants could earn money for delaying smoking up to 50min - after a period of overnight abstinence. Two cohorts were defined by the RAT; those who waited either 0-min (n=36) or the full 50-min (n=44) before smoking. RESULTS PRT signal detection metrics indicated all subjects learned the task contingencies, with no differences in response bias or discriminability between the two groups. However, HDDM analyses indicated faster drift rates in 50-min vs. 0-min waiters. CONCLUSIONS Relative to those who did not abstain, computational modeling indicated that people who abstained from smoking for 50min showed faster evidence accumulation during reward-based decision-making. These results highlight the importance of decision-making mechanisms to smoking abstinence, and suggest that focusing on the evidence accumulation process may yield new targets for treatment.
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- Kathryn Biernacki
- National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD21224, United States.
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- Suffolk University, Boston, MA02116, United States; CBTeam, Lexington, MA02421, United States
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD21224, United States
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- Center for Depression, Anxiety and Stress Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA02478, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA02115, United States
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- Institute for Addiction Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA90033, United States
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD21224, United States
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Jafarzadeh NS, Bello MS, Wong M, Cho J, Leventhal AM. Associations between anxiety symptoms and barriers to smoking cessation among African Americans who smoke cigarettes daily. Drug Alcohol Depend 2023; 245:109808. [PMID: 36857843 PMCID: PMC10108659 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND African Americans who smoke cigarettes and experience heightened anxiety symptoms may have low quit smoking rates. Identifying which particular barriers to cessation are associated with specific types of anxiety symptoms in African Americans could inform cessation treatments for this population. This cross-sectional, correlational study examined associations of anxiety-related symptoms and distinct barriers to cessation among non-treatment-seeking African Americans who smoke cigarettes daily. METHODS African Americans who smoke (N = 536) enrolled in a clinical research study on individual differences in tobacco addiction between 2013 and 2017 completed self-report measures of anxiety-related symptoms (i.e., social anxiety, panic, and posttraumatic intrusions) and types of barriers to cessation (i.e., addiction-related, social-related, and affect-related barriers). Linear regression models tested associations of anxiety symptoms with cessation barriers with and without adjusting for age, sex, depressive symptoms, and nicotine dependence. RESULTS All anxiety-related symptoms were associated with each cessation barrier (βs = 0.240-0.396). After covariate adjustment, panic and trauma-related symptoms were not associated with cessation barriers, and the strength of association of social anxiety with external barriers was reduced but remained significant (β = 0.254). CONCLUSION Symptoms of social anxiety, but not trauma or panic-related symptoms, may play a unique, but modest, role in certain barriers to cessation in non-treatment-seeking African Americans who smoke cigarettes over. Further research is needed to uncover why African Americans who smoke and have anxiety might experience these barriers, and how future interventions can mitigate these obstacles.
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- Nikki S Jafarzadeh
- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States; Institute for Addiction Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States; Institute for Addiction Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States; Institute for Addiction Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States
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- Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States; Institute for Addiction Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, United States.
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Littman D, Sherman SE, Troxel AB, Stevens ER. Behavioral Economics and Tobacco Control: Current Practices and Future Opportunities. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:8174. [PMID: 35805833 PMCID: PMC9266334 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19138174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Revised: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 07/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Despite considerable progress, smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. To address the considerable health and economic burden of tobacco use, the development of improved tobacco control and treatment interventions is critical. By combining elements of economics and psychology, behavioral economics provides a framework for novel solutions to treat smokers who have failed to quit with traditional smoking cessation interventions. The full range of behavioral economic principles, however, have not been widely utilized in the realm of tobacco control and treatment. Given the need for improved tobacco control and treatment, the limited use of other behavioral economic principles represents a substantial missed opportunity. For this reason, we sought to describe the principles of behavioral economics as they relate to tobacco control, highlight potential gaps in the behavioral economics tobacco research literature, and provide examples of potential interventions that use each principle.
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- Dalia Littman
- Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA; (D.L.); (S.E.S.); (A.B.T.)
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- Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA; (D.L.); (S.E.S.); (A.B.T.)
- Department of Medicine, VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY 10010, USA
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- Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA; (D.L.); (S.E.S.); (A.B.T.)
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- Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA; (D.L.); (S.E.S.); (A.B.T.)
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Pang RD, Tucker CJ, D’Orazio LM, Weinberger AH, Guillot CR. Affect and subjective cognitive functioning by depression symptom levels during naturalistic cigarette smoking in premenopausal females who smoke daily. PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS 2022; 36:90-99. [PMID: 33844567 PMCID: PMC8505572 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Objective: High negative affect, low positive affect, and low cognitive functioning are depression-related states that may be particularly relevant to females who smoke cigarettes and may be more prominent following overnight tobacco abstinence. This study aimed to assess relations between depression symptom levels and negative affect, positive affect, and subjective cognitive functioning in premenopausal females who smoke. Methods: Premenopausal females who smoke daily with low (n = 66) or elevated (n = 33) baseline depression symptoms completed subjective ratings of negative affect, positive affect, and cognitive functioning pre-first cigarette (i.e., after overnight tobacco abstinence) and at random prompts throughout the day via ecological momentary assessment (EMA) for 35 days. Results: Participants with elevated depression symptoms reported overall higher negative affect (p = .01). Positive affect was significantly lower prior to the first cigarette of the day (p < .001), but did not significantly differ between depression symptom groups. Subjective cognitive functioning was significantly lower pre-first cigarette of the day (p < .001). There was a significant Depression Symptom × Prompt Type interaction for subjective cognitive functioning (p = .01). Subjective cognitive functioning did not significantly differ by depression symptom group pre-first cigarette of the day but was significantly different at random prompts throughout the day. Conclusions: As participants smoked as usual, findings identify naturalistic factors which may influence smoking behavior among premenopausal females who smoke with elevated depression symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Raina D. Pang
- Department of Preventive Medicine and Department of Psychology, University of Southern California
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California
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- Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University and Department of Epidemiology, and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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Cox CM, Westrick JC, McCarthy DE, Carpenter MJ, Mathew AR. Practice Quit Attempts: Scoping Review of a Novel Intervention Strategy. J Stud Alcohol Drugs 2022; 83:115-125. [PMID: 35040767 PMCID: PMC8819897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE Fostering practice quit attempts (PQAs)--that is, attempts to not smoke for a few hours or days, without pressure to permanently quit--represents a potential means to engage more individuals who smoke in efforts to change their smoking. However, little is known about interventions designed to foster PQAs. We aimed to identify the available evidence on PQA-focused intervention strategies and their impact on quit attempt and cessation outcomes. METHOD We conducted a scoping review of behavioral and pharmacological treatment studies targeting PQAs among adult cigarette smokers. RESULTS The systematic literature search yielded 3,879 articles, and the full-text review was narrowed to 86. Twenty-three studies were deemed relevant, and 5 were added through other sources, yielding 28 studies total. Fifteen studies included behavioral intervention techniques focused on the development and rehearsal of individualized coping skills, whereas eight studies provided brief advice/instruction. More than half of the PQA-focused interventions incorporated sampling of nicotine replacement products, through either guided or ad lib use. Five studies reported on PQA-focused digital health interventions that prompted brief abstinence challenges. Of eight large-scale controlled trials, six demonstrated an increase in quit attempt and cessation outcomes among the PQA-focused intervention group. CONCLUSIONS Fostering PQAs through behavioral and pharmacological interventions offers a promising technique for cessation induction that warrants future research.
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- Chelsea M. Cox
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,Correspondence may be sent to Chelsea M. Cox at the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison St., Room 3022, Chicago, IL 60607, or via email at:
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- Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina,Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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Liautaud MM, Kechter A, Bello MS, Guillot CR, Oliver JA, Banks DE, D’Orazio LM, Leventhal AM. Anhedonia in tobacco withdrawal among African-American smokers. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 2021; 29:511-523. [PMID: 34110886 PMCID: PMC8511043 DOI: 10.1037/pha0000474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Anhedonia-diminished interest and pleasure in response to rewards-may be a symptom of tobacco withdrawal that is understudied in priority populations. This experiment investigated the magnitude and correlates of various dimensions of anhedonia during tobacco withdrawal among African-American (AA) smokers-a population subject to health disparities. AA smokers (N = 607; ≥ 10 cigarettes/day, 37.8% female, M[SD] age = 50.0[10.6] years) completed self-report measures assessing expected pleasure from (i.e., consummatory anhedonia) and desire to engage in (i.e., anticipatory anhedonia) various types of hypothetically experienced rewards at counterbalanced 16-hr tobacco deprived and nondeprived lab visits. Other tobacco withdrawal symptom measures (e.g., craving, negative affect, hunger) were also assessed. Tobacco deprivation most robustly increased scores on a composite measure of consummatory anhedonia directed toward various reward domains (i.e., hobbies, sensory experiences, social activities; d = .32, p < .001). Deprivation modestly increased consummatory and anticipatory anhedonia directed toward sexual rewards (ds = .09-.12, ps < .02), did not significantly change anhedonia toward food rewards, and decreased anhedonia directed toward psychoactive drug rewards (i.e., increased desire for and pleasure from drugs; ds = -.21 to -.19, ps < .001). Deprivation-induced changes in anhedonia were modestly correlated with other withdrawal symptoms (average |r|s = .04-.23) and were amplified among participants with higher nicotine dependence and lower positive affect-related traits (|β|s = .10-.12, ps < .01). Some dimensions of anhedonia may be genuine expressions of acute tobacco withdrawal in AA smokers. Applying multi-dimensional anhedonia conceptualizations might advance basic knowledge and treatment of tobacco use disorder, improve smoking cessation outcomes, and address tobacco-related health disparities facing AA smokers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- University of Missouri Saint Louis, Department of Psychological Sciences
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- University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine
- University of Southern California, Department of Psychology
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Kim N, McCarthy DE, Cook JW, Piper ME, Schlam TR, Baker TB. Time-varying effects of 'optimized smoking treatment' on craving, negative affect and anhedonia. Addiction 2021; 116:608-617. [PMID: 32830368 PMCID: PMC7878324 DOI: 10.1111/add.15232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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AIMS To identify when smoking cessation treatments affect craving, negative affect and anhedonia, and how these symptoms relate to abstinence, to help evaluate the effects of particular intervention components in multi-component treatments and accelerate treatment refinement. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from a two-arm randomized controlled trial. SETTING Seven primary care clinics in Wisconsin, United States. PARTICIPANTS Adult primary care patients who smoked daily (n = 574). INTERVENTION AND COMPARATOR Intervention was abstinence-optimized treatment (A-OT, n = 276) comprising 3 weeks of nicotine mini-lozenges pre-target quit day (TQD), 26 weeks of combination nicotine patch and mini-lozenges post-TQD and extensive psychosocial support. The comparator was recommended usual care (RUC, n = 298), comprising brief counseling and 8 weeks of nicotine patch post-TQD. MEASUREMENTS Time-varying effect models examined dynamic effects of A-OT (versus RUC) on the primary outcomes of nightly cigarette craving, negative affect and anhedonia from 1 week pre- to 2 weeks post-TQD. Exploratory models examined within-person relations between nicotine medication use and same-day symptom ratings. Secondary logistic regression analyses examined associations between post-TQD craving, negative affect and anhedonia and 1-month post-TQD abstinence. FINDINGS A-OT significantly suppressed pre- and post-TQD craving (β = -0.27 to -0.46 across days) and post-TQD anhedonia (β = -0.24 to -0.38 across days), relative to RUC. Within individuals, using patches was associated with lower negative affect in RUC (β = -0.42 to -0.52), but not in A-OT. Using more mini-lozenges was associated with greater craving (β = 0.04-0.07) and negative affect (β = 0.03-0.05) early, and with lower anhedonia (β = -0.06 to -0.12) later. Greater post-TQD craving (OR = 0.68) and anhedonia (OR = 0.85) predicted lower odds of abstinence 1 month post-TQD. CONCLUSION Time-varying effect models showed that a multi-component treatment intervention for smoking cessation suppressed significant withdrawal symptoms more effectively than recommended usual care among daily adult smokers motivated to quit. The intervention reduced craving pre- and post-target quit day (TQD) and anhedonia post-TQD.
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- Nayoung Kim
- Center for Tobacco Research and Treatment, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53711, USA,Corresponding Author: Nayoung Kim, Ph.D., Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 1930 Monroe St., Suite 200, Madison, WI 53711 USA, Telephone: (608) 265-4447, Fax: (608) 265-3102,
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- Center for Tobacco Research and Treatment, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53711, USA
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- Center for Tobacco Research and Treatment, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53711, USA
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- Center for Tobacco Research and Treatment, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53711, USA
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- Center for Tobacco Research and Treatment, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53711, USA
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- Center for Tobacco Research and Treatment, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53711, USA
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Klemperer EM, Hughes JR, Peasley-Miklus CE, Callas PW, Cook JW, Streck JM, Morley NE. Possible New Symptoms of Tobacco Withdrawal III: Reduced Positive Affect-A Review and Meta-analysis. Nicotine Tob Res 2021; 23:259-266. [PMID: 32188995 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Most descriptions of tobacco withdrawal have not changed in >30 years despite new research. This meta-analysis tested whether abstinence leads to decreased positive affect (PA) because abstinence-induced symptom changes are a core feature of the tobacco withdrawal syndrome. In addition, we examined whether reduced PA was due to withdrawal (ie, temporary decrease in a "U-shaped" curve) or offset (ie, return to baseline) effect. METHODS Our main inclusion criterion was a prospective within-participant test of change in PA during abstinence conditions among people who smoke cigarettes daily who were not using a cessation medication. Our search of PubMed, PsycINFO, and personal libraries yielded a total of 32 tests with 2054 participants. RESULTS There was a medium effect size indicating an overall decrease in PA following abstinence from cigarettes (Cohen's d = -0.40, 95% CI = -0.30 to -0.49). There was large heterogeneity (I2 = 70.7%). Most (79%) of the 24 trials that conducted significance tests reported that reduction in PA was significant. Seven tests were adequately designed to detect a withdrawal versus offset effect. Over half (57%) displayed a U-shaped curve for abstinence-induced change in PA indicative of a withdrawal symptom rather than offset effect. CONCLUSIONS Abstinence from cigarettes is associated with a decrease in PA. Whether low PA should be added to withdrawal measures and diagnostic criteria requires replication of the time-course of change in PA and tests of whether abstinence-induced changes in PA and negative affect occur independently. IMPLICATIONS Though there was substantial heterogeneity among trials, our findings suggest that (1) abstinence from cigarettes decreases positive affect and (2) this decrease may represent a withdrawal effect (vs. an offset effect). However, it is unclear whether abstinence-induced losses in positive affect are independent from increased negative affect.
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- Elias M Klemperer
- Vermont Center on Behavior & Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.,Department of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
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- Vermont Center on Behavior & Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.,Department of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
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- Department of Medicine, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
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- Vermont Center on Behavior & Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.,Department of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.,Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Vermont Center on Behavior & Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
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Bidirectional relationship between heroin addiction and depression: Behavioural and neural studies. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-01032-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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González-Roz A, Secades-Villa R, Weidberg S, García-Pérez Á, Reed DD. Latent Structure of the Cigarette Purchase Task Among Treatment-Seeking Smokers With Depression and Its Predictive Validity on Smoking Abstinence. Nicotine Tob Res 2020; 22:74-80. [PMID: 30371826 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nty236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Research has recently shown that nicotine reinforcement is better characterized by a bifactorial latent structure: persistence (insensitivity to cigarette pricing) and amplitude (consumption at inexpensive prices). No study to date has examined its value as a predictor of abstinence. This study aimed to provide new evidence on the latent structure of the cigarette purchase task (CPT) in smokers with depressive symptoms and to examine whether the latent structure performs better as a predictor of continuous abstinence than do the individual indices. METHODS Participants (n = 205 smokers; 72% female: Beck Depression Inventory, Second Edition, M = 24.68, SD = 10.45) were randomized to two smoking cessation treatments for quitting smoking: cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) or CBT + contingency management (CM). A principal-components analysis was conducted to examine the latent structure of the CPT and a set of regression models were performed to assess its predictive validity. RESULTS The principal-components analysis revealed a bifactorial solution, which was interpreted as persistence (breakpoint, Omax, Pmax, and elasticity) and psychological inertia (intensity and elasticity of demand). Evidence on the convergent validity was obtained through significant associations between the two latent factors and smoking variables (all r values ≥.17). Psychological inertia was negatively related to the number of days of continuous abstinence at the end of treatment regardless of the treatment condition [R2 = .038; F(2, 202) = 4.989, p = .008]. CONCLUSIONS Psychological inertia informs on which patients benefit less from smoking cessation treatments incorporating CM and CBT. Treatment components that affect individuals' excessive valuation of cigarettes might improve cessation outcomes. IMPLICATIONS This is the first attempt to examine the latent structure of the CPT in depressed smokers and to yield evidence on its predictive validity. A specific bifactorial solution exists for this population: persistence (breakpoint, Omax, Pmax, and elasticity) and psychological inertia (intensity and elasticity). Isolating demand indices and factors provides a high-resolution characterization of nicotine reinforcement for depressed smokers in that it informs on treatment response. Compared to the individual CPT indices, psychological inertia more effectively predicts which patients benefit most from either CM or CBT. Treatment components that affect individuals' excessive valuation of cigarettes (eg, episodic future thinking) should be integrated into smoking cessation treatments.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
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Conti AA, Tolomeo S, Steele JD, Baldacchino AM. Severity of negative mood and anxiety symptoms occurring during acute abstinence from tobacco: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2020; 115:48-63. [PMID: 32454051 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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This review was conducted with the following goals: To quantify the severity of mood and anxiety symptoms emerging during acute abstinence from tobacco (1). To explore sex differences related to the experience of specific symptoms (2). To investigate the early time course of symptoms (3). A meta-analysis was performed from 28 studies assessing mood and anxiety symptoms during the earliest phases of tobacco abstinence (up to 24 hrs post-quit) conducted from 1999 to 2019. Results revealed a significant (p < 0.0001) increase in 'anxiety', 'anger/irritability', 'depressed mood /sadness', and composite negative affect ('NA') in the 24 hours following smoking cessation. The largest effect size was detected for 'anxiety' (0.63). A qualitative analysis was performed to investigate sex differences and the time course of the specific symptoms. Results indicated that female smokers may experience worse mood symptoms compared to male smokers and that these symptoms may emerge within 3 hrs post-quit. Smoking cessation programs should implement sex-tailored interventions in order to improve their effectiveness, while future research should focus on alternative methods of nicotine administration.
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- A A Conti
- University of St Andrews, School of Medicine, Division of Population and Behavioural Science, UK
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- National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of Psychology, Singapore
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- University of Dundee, School of Medicine, Division of Imaging Science and Technology, UK
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- University of St Andrews, School of Medicine, Division of Population and Behavioural Science, UK.
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Pang RD, Bello MS, Liautaud MM, Weinberger AH, Leventhal AM. Gender Differences in Negative Affect During Acute Tobacco Abstinence Differ Between African American and White Adult Cigarette Smokers. Nicotine Tob Res 2020; 21:1072-1078. [PMID: 29917091 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nty122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Prior studies have found heightened negative affect following tobacco abstinence in women compared to men. However, experimental work addressing whether these findings generalize across racial groups is scarce. This study investigated whether race (non-Hispanic White vs. non-Hispanic African American) moderated gender differences in abstinence-induced negative affect and smoking behavior. METHODS Data were collected from 2010 to 2017 from two separate laboratory studies investigating experimentally manipulated tobacco abstinence. Following a baseline session, adult daily smokers (≥10 cigarettes/day; women: n = 297, 83.8% non-Hispanic African American; men: n = 492, 86.2% non-Hispanic African American) attended two counterbalanced lab sessions (16 hours abstinent vs. non-abstinent) and completed self-report measures of negative affect followed by a laboratory analogue smoking reinstatement task. RESULTS We found a gender × race interaction for several negative affect states and composite negative affect (βs = -.12 to -.16, Ps < .05). Analyses stratified by race showed that non-Hispanic White women compared to non-Hispanic White men exhibited greater abstinence-induced increases in anger, anxiety, and composite negative affect (βs = -.20 to -.29, Ps < .05). No significant gender differences in abstinence-induced negative affect were found for non-Hispanic African American smokers (βs = .00 to - .04, Ps > .05). CONCLUSION These findings suggest that negative affect during acute tobacco abstinence may be a clinically important and intervenable factor that can inform cessation interventions specifically for non-Hispanic White women smokers. Further empirical exploration of mechanisms underlying interactions of gender and race in tobacco addiction may benefit smoking cessation efforts in non-Hispanic African American women smokers. IMPLICATIONS This study contributes to a scant body of research examining the intersectional influence of race and gender on abstinence-induced negative affect-a central, motivationally prepotent feature of tobacco withdrawal. Using a laboratory-based design to experimentally manipulate abstinence, we provide evidence of a gender × race interaction on negative affect-related withdrawal. Our findings suggest that gender differences in abstinence-induced negative affect observed among non-Hispanic White smokers may not generalize to non-Hispanic African American smokers, highlighting the need for future work to address potential mechanisms underlying the racially discrepant impact of gender on affective tobacco withdrawal.
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- Raina D Pang
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, New York, NY.,Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Fani N, Jain J, Hudak LA, Rothbaum BO, Ressler KJ, Michopoulos V. Post-trauma anhedonia is associated with increased substance use in a recently-traumatized population. Psychiatry Res 2020; 285:112777. [PMID: 31991282 PMCID: PMC7544530 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Recreational substance use (SU) can emerge or worsen in the aftermath of psychological trauma. Anhedonia is one reason for this problematic SU. Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that represent anhedonia (post-trauma anhedonia; PTA) have been consistently linked to SU disorders. However, no prospective studies have examined whether changes in PTA over time are associated with problematic SU in recently-traumatized people, which was the goal of this study. 165 men and women were recruited as part of a prospective PTSD study in the emergency department of a Level 1 trauma center. Clinical assessments of PTSD and SU were administered at three and six months post-trauma. Compared to participants with minimal SU at six months post-trauma, high substance users at six months post-trauma showed significant increases in PTA during the three to six month time period. This relationship was significant even after accounting for variance associated with other factors, including PTSD symptoms such as re-experiencing and hyperarousal. Participants who demonstrated increases in SU during this time also showed significant increases in PTA, unlike those who demonstrated consistently minimal/no SU during this time. These findings indicate that PTA may be a mechanism through which SU problems emerge in recently-traumatized individuals.
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- Negar Fani
- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, USA.
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, USA; McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, USA; Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Powers JM, LaRowe LR, Heckman BW, Ditre JW. Pain characteristics and nicotine deprivation as predictors of performance during a laboratory paradigm of smoking cessation. PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS 2019; 34:341-350. [PMID: 31750703 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Although smokers with co-occurring pain report expectations for experiencing greater nicotine withdrawal and difficulty quitting, limited work has examined the role of pain in cessation-related outcomes. The goal of this study was to examine clinically relevant pain characteristics (pain persistence, pain intensity, pain-related disability) as predictors of withdrawal and smoking lapse/relapse outcomes using a laboratory paradigm of cessation. Participants (N = 120 daily cigarette smokers; 48% male; Mage = 36.17, SD = 12.16; MCigarettes Per Day = 20.51, SD = 6.99) were randomized to either nondeprived or 12-hr nicotine deprivation conditions prior to an experimental study visit. Upon arrival to the laboratory, participants completed measures of pain characteristics and nicotine withdrawal symptoms. Primary outcomes included nicotine withdrawal scores and analogues of smoking lapse (latency to initiating smoking) and relapse (number of cigarettes smoked). We hypothesized that smokers with greater pain persistence, pain intensity, and pain-related disability would endorse more severe nicotine withdrawal and greater lapse/relapse behavior, and that these positive associations would be stronger among those who were nicotine deprived. Results indicated that, above and beyond the effect of nicotine deprivation, persistent pain predicted more severe nicotine withdrawal, and that greater pain-related disability predicted quicker latency to lapse during the laboratory paradigm. Contrary to expectation, nicotine deprivation did not moderate effects of pain characteristics on withdrawal or lapse/relapse outcomes. Clinical implications include that different pain processes may influence different cessation outcomes, and that smokers in pain may benefit from the provision of pharmacological aids to better control withdrawal symptoms. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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Zvorsky I, Nighbor TD, Kurti AN, DeSarno M, Naudé G, Reed DD, Higgins ST. Sensitivity of hypothetical purchase task indices when studying substance use: A systematic literature review. Prev Med 2019; 128:105789. [PMID: 31400376 PMCID: PMC6879840 DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.105789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Revised: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Hypothetical Purchase Tasks (HPTs) simulate demand for a substance as a function of escalating price. HPTs are increasingly used to examine relationships between substance-related correlates and outcomes and demand typically characterized using a common battery of indices (Intensity, Omax, Pmax, Breakpoint, Elasticity). This review examines the relative sensitivity of the HPT indices. Reports were identified using the search term "purchase task" in PubMed and Web of Science. For inclusion, reports had to be original studies in English, examine relationships between HPT indices and substance-related correlates or outcomes, and appear in a peer-reviewed journal through December 2017. Indices were compared using effect sizes (Cohen's d) and the proportion of studies in which statistically significant relationships were observed. The search identified 1274 reports with 114 (9%) receiving full-text review and 82 (6%) meeting inclusion criteria. 41 reports examined alcohol, 34 examined cigarettes/nicotine products, and 10 examined other substances. Overall, statistically significant relationships between HPT indices and substance-related correlates and outcomes were most often reported for Intensity (88.61%, 70/79), followed by Omax (81.16%, 56/69), Elasticity (72.15%, 57/59), Breakpoint (62.12%, 41/66), and Pmax (48.08%; 25/52). The largest effect sizes were observed for Intensity (0.75 ± 0.04, CI 0.67-0.84) and Omax (0.64 ± 0.04, CI 0.56-0.71), followed by Elasticity (0.44 ± 0.04, CI 0.37-0.51), Breakpoint (0.30 ± 0.03, CI 0.25-0.36), and Pmax (0.25 ± 0.04, CI 0.18-0.33). Patterns were largely consistent across substances. In conclusion, HPTs can be highly effective in revealing relationships between demand and substance-related correlates and outcomes, with Intensity and Omax exhibiting the greatest sensitivity.
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- Ivori Zvorsky
- Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, United States of America; Department of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, United States of America
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- Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, United States of America
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- Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, United States of America; Department of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Statistics, University of Vermont, United States of America
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- Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment, University of Kansas, United States of America
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- Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment, University of Kansas, United States of America
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- Vermont Center on Behavior and Health, United States of America; Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, United States of America; Department of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, United States of America.
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Cho J, Stone MD, Leventhal AM. Anhedonia as a phenotypic marker of familial transmission of polysubstance use trajectories across midadolescence. PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS 2019; 33:15-25. [PMID: 30451510 PMCID: PMC6367042 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Psychopathologic traits that arise in adolescence may increase proneness to substance use uptake as well as channel the familial transmission of substance use. Poly use is a common pattern of substance use in youth. To identify a parsimonious model of familial transmission of substance use, the current study tested whether anhedonia-a psychopathologic endophenotype manifested as the inability to experience pleasure-mediates the association of family history of substance use (FHS) with polysubstance use patterns across midadolescence. High school students (N = 3,392) in Los Angeles, CA, completed 4 semiannual surveys of mental health and substance use from ages 14- to 16-years-old. Use and co-use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana across the 4 waves were reduced to 4 homogenous classes using parallel process growth mixture modeling: (a) abstainers (N = 1,629, 48.0%); (b) experimenters (N = 1,293, 38.1%); (c) polysubstance using marijuana escalators (N = 210, 6.2%); and (d) heavy polysubstance using cigarette escalators (N = 126, 3.7%). FHS was positively associated with membership in each of the three substance using trajectory groups (vs. the abstainers group). After adjusting for depressive symptoms and other covariates, associations of FHS with membership in the polysubstance using marijuana escalators group and with the heavy polysubstance using cigarette escalators group (in comparison with the abstainers or experimenters groups) were each significantly mediated by anhedonia in youth age 14 (the proportion mediated by anhedonia: 0.33-0.42). Etiology research and intervention addressing anhedonia may have value for understanding and preventing the familial transmission of adolescent polysubstance use patterns. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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Destoop M, Morrens M, Coppens V, Dom G. Addiction, Anhedonia, and Comorbid Mood Disorder. A Narrative Review. Front Psychiatry 2019; 10:311. [PMID: 31178763 PMCID: PMC6538808 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2018] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Background: Recently, anhedonia has been recognized as an important Research Domain Criterion (RDoC) by the National Institute of Mental Health. Anhedonia is proposed to play an essential role in the pathogenies of both addictive and mood disorders, and possibly their co-occurrence with a single individual. However, up to now, comprehensive information about anhedonia concerning its underlying neurobiological circuitries, the neurocognitive correlates, and their role in addiction, mood disorder, and comorbidity remains scarce. Aim: In this literature review of human studies, we bring together the current state of knowledge with respect to anhedonia in its relationship with disorders in the use of substances (DUS) and the comorbidity with mood disorders. Method: A PubMed search was conducted using the following search terms: (Anhedonia OR Reward Deficiency) AND ((Drug Dependence OR Abuse) OR Alcohol OR Nicotine OR Addiction OR Gambling OR (Internet Gaming)). Thirty-two articles were included in the review. Results: Anhedonia is associated with substance use disorders, and their severity is especially prominent in DUS with comorbid depression. Anhedonia may be both a trait and a state dimension in its relation to DUS and tends to impact DUS treatment outcome negatively.
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- Marianne Destoop
- Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.,Psychiatric Hospital Multiversum, Campus Alexianen, Boechout, Belgium
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- Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.,University Department of Psychiatry, Campus Duffel, Duffel, Belgium
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- Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.,University Department of Psychiatry, Campus Duffel, Duffel, Belgium
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- Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.,Psychiatric Hospital Multiversum, Campus Alexianen, Boechout, Belgium
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Haslam AK, Correa-Fernández V, Hoover DS, Li L, Lam C, Wetter DW. Anhedonia and smoking cessation among Spanish-speaking Mexican-Americans. Health Psychol 2018; 37:814-819. [PMID: 30047750 DOI: 10.1037/hea0000633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Smoking cessation is associated with improved health and reduced risk of disease. Understanding specific factors that are associated with smoking cessation is important both for identifying those who may have the greatest difficulty quitting smoking and tailoring smoking cessation interventions accordingly. Low positive affect/anhedonia, a key transdiagnostic symptom of several psychiatric disorders, is associated with lower levels of smoking cessation in the general population, but to date, few studies have examined factors influencing smoking cessation among Spanish-speaking Mexican-American smokers. METHODS The current study examined whether low positive affect/anhedonia was inversely related to cessation status across 3 time points among Spanish-speaking Mexican-American smokers (N = 199) who were making a smoking quit attempt. RESULTS Using multilevel modeling, the between-person low positive affect/anhedonia score was found to be inversely associated with smoking at quit day, 3 and 26 weeks after quit while controlling for relevant covariates (i.e., age, gender, education, income, relationship status, heaviness of smoking index) but not when controlling for other symptoms of depression. CONCLUSIONS Contrary to prior research, the results of this study did not confirm the unique predictive role of low positive affect/anhedonia among Mexican Americans, suggesting that risk factors for this group may be different from other populations and cessation approaches may also need to differ. (PsycINFO Database Record
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Cole RD, Wolsh C, Zimmerman M, Harrington E, Gould TJ, Parikh V. Adolescent and adult nicotine exposure differentially impacts oral nicotine and oral saccharin self-administration in mice. Behav Brain Res 2018; 359:836-844. [PMID: 30053462 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Smokers that begin during adolescence are more likely to develop nicotine dependence than those who begin as adults. However, the factors that contribute to this remain largely unknown. Here we utilized a novel operant oral nicotine self-administration procedure in mice to assess the consequences of adolescent nicotine exposure on nicotine and saccharin (non-drug) reinforcement in adults. Animals were given non-contingent exposure to either saline or nicotine using the osmotic minipumps during both adolescence and adulthood for 2 weeks. Reinforcing efficacy for oral nicotine and saccharin was assessed using the progressive ratio schedule 2-weeks following the washout period in adults. Non-contingent nicotine exposure in adolescence drastically increased operant responding for oral nicotine but reduced responding for oral saccharin in the group re-exposed to nicotine in adulthood. Interestingly, adolescent nicotine-exposed mice that received saline exposure as adults exhibited higher preference for oral saccharin. However, breakpoints for oral nicotine in these mice remained comparable to control animals. Surprisingly, both adolescent and adult nicotine exposure increased inactive lever responding during self-administration presumably reflecting impulsive responding. Our data suggest that adolescent nicotine exposure produces an increase in reinforcement sensitivity in adulthood as reflected by increased saccharin self-administration but this sensitivity becomes biased towards nicotine self-administration when re-exposed to nicotine in adulthood. Moreover, nicotine/saccharin reinforcement could be impacted by changes in cognitive control, such as increased impulsivity. These distinct behavioral mechanisms may act in concert to facilitate maladaptive nicotine taking in smokers that initiate nicotine use during adolescence.
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- Robert D Cole
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
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- Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, United States
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States.
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Secades-Villa R, Weidberg S, González-Roz A, Reed DD, Fernández-Hermida JR. Cigarette demand among smokers with elevated depressive symptoms: an experimental comparison with low depressive symptoms. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2018; 235:719-728. [PMID: 29143193 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-017-4788-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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RATIONALE Individuals with depression smoke more than smokers without depression. Research has shown that cigarette demand is a useful tool for quantifying tobacco reinforcement and supposes a clinical predictor of treatment outcomes. Despite previous studies examining the relative reinforcing efficacy of nicotine among different populations of smokers, to date, no study has assessed cigarette demand among individuals with elevated depressive symptoms. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare cigarette demand among samples of smokers with low and elevated depressive symptoms. Further, it also sought to examine the relationship between depressive symptomatology and the individual CPT demand indices. METHODS Participants (80 non-depressed smokers and 85 depressed smokers) completed the 19-item version of the Cigarette Purchase Task (CPT). Depression symptomatology was assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition (BDI-II). Depressed smokers needed to present at least moderate depressive symptoms as indicated by scoring ≥ 20 on the BDI-II. RESULTS Depressive symptomatology and nicotine dependence were significantly associated with elasticity of demand (R 2 = 0.112; F(2, 155) = 9.756, p = ≤ 0.001). Depressive symptoms, cigarettes per day, and years of regular smoking also predicted breakpoint scores (R 2 = 0.088; F(4, 153) = 3.697, p = 0.007). CONCLUSION As smokers with elevated depressive symptoms are less sensitive to increases in cigarette prices than those with low depressive symptomatology, future studies should consider these cigarette demand indices when designing depression-focused smoking cessation treatments. Providing this difficult-to-treat population with interventions that promote both pleasurable and alternative reinforcing activities is highly encouraged.
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- Roberto Secades-Villa
- Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Plaza Feijóo s/n, 33003, Oviedo, Spain.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Plaza Feijóo s/n, 33003, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Plaza Feijóo s/n, 33003, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Applied Behavioral Science, University of Kansas, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS, 66045, USA
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King AC, Smith LJ, McNamara PJ, Cao D. Second Generation Electronic Nicotine Delivery System Vape Pen Exposure Generalizes as a Smoking Cue. Nicotine Tob Res 2018; 20:246-252. [PMID: 28082323 PMCID: PMC7207065 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntw327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Introduction Second generation electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS; also known as e-cigarettes, vaporizers or vape pens) are designed for a customized nicotine delivery experience and have less resemblance to regular cigarettes than first generation "cigalikes." The present study examined whether they generalize as a conditioned cue and evoke smoking urges or behavior in persons exposed to their use. Methods Data were analyzed in N = 108 young adult smokers (≥5 cigarettes per week) randomized to either a traditional combustible cigarette smoking cue or a second generation ENDS vaping cue in a controlled laboratory setting. Cigarette and e-cigarette urge and desire were assessed pre- and post-cue exposure. Smoking behavior was also explored in a subsample undergoing a smoking latency phase after cue exposure (N = 26). Results The ENDS vape pen cue evoked both urge and desire for a regular cigarette to a similar extent as that produced by the combustible cigarette cue. Both cues produced similar time to initiate smoking during the smoking latency phase. The ENDS vape pen cue elicited smoking urge and desire regardless of ENDS use history, that is, across ENDS naїve, lifetime or current users. Inclusion of past ENDS or cigarette use as covariates did not significantly alter the results. Conclusions These findings demonstrate that observation of vape pen ENDS use generalizes as a conditioned cue to produce smoking urge, desire, and behavior in young adult smokers. As the popularity of these devices may eventually overtake those of first generation ENDS cigalikes, exposure effects will be of increasing importance. Implications This study shows that passive exposure to a second generation ENDS vape pen cue evoked smoking urge, desire, and behavior across a range of daily and non-daily young adult smokers. Smoking urge and desire increases after vape pen exposure were similar to those produced by exposure to a first generation ENDS cigalike and a combustible cigarette, a known potent cue. Given the increasing popularity of ENDS tank system products, passive exposures to these devices will no doubt increase, and may contribute to tobacco use in young adult smokers.
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- Andrea C King
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
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Bickel WK, Mellis AM, Snider SE, Athamneh LN, Stein JS, Pope DA. 21st century neurobehavioral theories of decision making in addiction: Review and evaluation. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2018; 164:4-21. [PMID: 28942119 PMCID: PMC5747999 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2017.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2017] [Revised: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 09/12/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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This review critically examines neurobehavioral theoretical developments in decision making in addiction in the 21st century. We specifically compare each theory reviewed to seven benchmarks of theoretical robustness, based on their ability to address: why some commodities are addictive; developmental trends in addiction; addiction-related anhedonia; self-defeating patterns of behavior in addiction; why addiction co-occurs with other unhealthy behaviors; and, finally, means for the repair of addiction. We have included only self-contained theories or hypotheses which have been developed or extended in the 21st century to address decision making in addiction. We thus review seven distinct theories of decision making in addiction: learning theories, incentive-sensitization theory, dopamine imbalance and systems models, opponent process theory, strength models of self-control failure, the competing neurobehavioral decision systems theory, and the triadic systems theory of addiction. Finally, we have directly compared the performance of each of these theories based on the aforementioned benchmarks, and highlighted key points at which several theories have coalesced.
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- Warren K Bickel
- Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, United States; Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Roanoke, VA, United States; Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States; Department of Neuroscience, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States; Faculty of Health Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, United States.
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- Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, United States; Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Roanoke, VA, United States
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- Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, United States
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- Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, United States; Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Roanoke, VA, United States
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- Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, United States
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- Addiction Recovery Research Center, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, VA, United States
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Guillot CR, Halliday TM, Kirkpatrick MG, Pang RD, Leventhal AM. Anhedonia and Abstinence as Predictors of the Subjective Pleasantness of Positive, Negative, and Smoking-Related Pictures. Nicotine Tob Res 2017; 19:743-749. [PMID: 28186553 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntx036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Introduction Anhedonia-diminished interest or pleasure in response to rewards-is a dimension implicated in several psychiatric disorders linked to smoking. This laboratory study sought to identify motivational mechanisms linking anhedonia and tobacco addiction by testing the hypothesis that anhedonia, abstinence, and their interaction would predict excesses and deficits in the perceived pleasantness of smoking-related and positive pictures, respectively. We assessed the pleasantness of negative pictures as a secondary outcome. Methods After a baseline session involving self-report measures of anhedonia and other factors, 125 regular smokers attended two counterbalanced experimental sessions (overnight abstinent and non-abstinent) at which they rated the pleasantness of positive, smoking-related, negative, and neutral (control) pictures presented via computer. The difference in pleasantness ratings of positive, smoking-related, and negative pictures relative to neutral pictures served as the index of participants' appraisal of the motivational salience of nondrug reward, drug reward, and aversive signals, respectively. Results With and without adjusting for sex and depressive symptoms, greater anhedonia significantly or marginally predicted greater pleasantness of smoking (vs. neutral), lower pleasantness of positive (vs. neutral), less unpleasantness of negative (vs. neutral) pictures (|βs| = 0.18 to 0.35, ps = .007 to .07). Anhedonia by abstinence interaction effects on pleasantness ratings of each stimulus category (vs. neutral) were not significant (|βs| ≤ 0.02, ps ≥ .36). Conclusions Anhedonia and abstinence additively increase the salience of smoking-related cues in anhedonic smokers. Smoking cessation efforts that attenuate sensitization to smoking stimuli may benefit anhedonic smokers early in quit attempts. Implications Taken together, these findings provide tentative evidence that anhedonia is associated with a relative imbalance in the motivational salience of drug relative to nondrug rewards and may be associated with a generalized hypo-reactivity to both positive and negative stimuli. Though some prior smoking research has evidenced this relative imbalance in anhedonia with self-report or a smoking-choice task, we additionally show that this pattern may extend to hyper-affective reactivity to smoking-related stimuli being coincident with hypo-affective reactivity to nondrug-related positive stimuli (ie, may extend to greater pleasantness ratings of smoking pictures being accompanied by lower pleasantness ratings of positive pictures).
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- Casey R Guillot
- Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Hogarth L, Mathew AR, Hitsman B. Current major depression is associated with greater sensitivity to the motivational effect of both negative mood induction and abstinence on tobacco-seeking behavior. Drug Alcohol Depend 2017; 176:1-6. [PMID: 28460322 PMCID: PMC5499379 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Revised: 01/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/01/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Although depression and smoking commonly co-occur, the mechanisms underpinning this association are poorly understood. One hypothesis is that depression promotes tobacco dependence, persistence and relapse by increasing sensitivity to acute negative mood and abstinence induced tobacco-seeking behavior. METHODS Twenty nine daily smokers of >10 cigarettes per day, nine with major depression and 20 without, completed two laboratory sessions one week apart, smoking as normal prior to session 1 (sated session), and 6h abstinent prior to session 2 (abstinent session). In both sessions, tobacco-seeking was measured at baseline by preference to view smoking versus food images. Negative mood was then induced by negative ruminative statements and sad music, before tobacco-seeking was measured again at test. RESULTS In the sated session, negative mood induction produced a greater increase in tobacco choice from baseline to test in depressed (p<0.001, ηp2=0.782) compared to non-depressed smokers (p=0.045, ηp2=0.216, interaction: p=0.046, ηp2=0.150). Abstinence also produced a greater increase in baseline tobacco choice between the sated and abstinent sessions in depressed (p=0.002, ηp2=0.771) compared to non-depressed smokers (p=0.22, ηp2=0.089, interaction: p=0.023, ηp2=0.189). These mood and abstinence induced increases in tobacco choice were positively associated with depression symptoms across the sample as a whole (ps≤0.04, ηp2≥0.159), and correlated with each other (r=0.67, p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS Current major depression or depression symptoms may promote tobacco dependence, persistence and relapse by increasing sensitivity to both acute negative mood and abstinence induced tobacco-seeking behavior. Treatments should seek to break the association between adverse states and smoking to cope.
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- Lee Hogarth
- School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Building, Perry Road, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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Bradley KAL, Case JAC, Freed RD, Stern ER, Gabbay V. Neural correlates of RDoC reward constructs in adolescents with diverse psychiatric symptoms: A Reward Flanker Task pilot study. J Affect Disord 2017; 216:36-45. [PMID: 27923496 PMCID: PMC5453853 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2016.11.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND There has been growing interest under the Research Domain Criteria initiative to investigate behavioral constructs and their underlying neural circuitry. Abnormalities in reward processes are salient across psychiatric conditions and may precede future psychopathology in youth. However, the neural circuitry underlying such deficits has not been well defined. Therefore, in this pilot, we studied youth with diverse psychiatric symptoms and examined the neural underpinnings of reward anticipation, attainment, and positive prediction error (PPE, unexpected reward gain). Clinically, we focused on anhedonia, known to reflect deficits in reward function. METHODS Twenty-two psychotropic medication-free youth, 16 with psychiatric symptoms, exhibiting a full range of anhedonia, were scanned during the Reward Flanker Task. Anhedonia severity was quantified using the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale. Functional magnetic resonance imaging analyses were false discovery rate corrected for multiple comparisons. RESULTS Anticipation activated a broad network, including the medial frontal cortex and ventral striatum, while attainment activated memory and emotion-related regions such as the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus, but not the ventral striatum. PPE activated a right-dominant fronto-temporo-parietal network. Anhedonia was only correlated with activation of the right angular gyrus during anticipation and the left precuneus during PPE at an uncorrected threshold. LIMITATIONS Findings are preliminary due to the small sample size. CONCLUSIONS This pilot characterized the neural circuitry underlying different aspects of reward processing in youth with diverse psychiatric symptoms. These results highlight the complexity of the neural circuitry underlying reward anticipation, attainment, and PPE. Furthermore, this study underscores the importance of RDoC research in youth.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA.
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Bello MS, Pang RD, Chasson GS, Ray LA, Leventhal AM. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms and negative affect during tobacco withdrawal in a non-clinical sample of African American smokers. J Anxiety Disord 2017; 48:78-86. [PMID: 27769664 PMCID: PMC5380588 DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2016] [Revised: 10/01/2016] [Accepted: 10/03/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The association between obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptomatology and smoking is poorly understood, particularly in African Americans-a group subject to smoking- and OC-related health disparities. In a non-clinical sample of 253 African American smokers, we tested the negative reinforcement model of OC-smoking comorbidity, purporting that smokers with higher OC symptoms experience greater negative affect (NA) and urge to smoke for NA suppression upon acute tobacco abstinence. Following a baseline visit involving OC assessment, participants completed two counterbalanced experimental visits (non-abstinent vs. 16-h tobacco abstinence) involving affect, smoking urge, and nicotine withdrawal assessment. OC symptom severity predicted larger abstinence-provoked increases in overall NA, anger, anxiety, depression, fatigue, urge to smoke to suppress NA, and composite nicotine withdrawal symptom index. African American smokers with elevated OC symptoms appear to be vulnerable to negative reinforcement-mediated smoking motivation and may benefit from cessation treatments that diminish NA or the urge to quell NA via smoking.
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- Mariel S Bello
- University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Psychology, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of California Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, USA; University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Mathew AR, Hogarth L, Leventhal AM, Cook JW, Hitsman B. Cigarette smoking and depression comorbidity: systematic review and proposed theoretical model. Addiction 2017; 112:401-412. [PMID: 27628300 PMCID: PMC5296249 DOI: 10.1111/add.13604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2016] [Revised: 04/29/2016] [Accepted: 09/05/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Despite decades of research on co-occurring smoking and depression, cessation rates remain consistently lower for depressed smokers than for smokers in the general population, highlighting the need for theory-driven models of smoking and depression. This paper provides a systematic review with a particular focus upon psychological states that disproportionately motivate smoking in depression, and frame an incentive learning theory account of smoking-depression co-occurrence. METHODS We searched PubMed, Scopus, PsychINFO and CINAHL to December 2014, which yielded 852 papers. Using pre-established eligibility criteria, we identified papers focused on clinical issues and motivational mechanisms underlying smoking in established, adult smokers (i.e. maintenance, quit attempts and cessation/relapse) with elevated symptoms of depression. Two reviewers determined independently whether papers met review criteria. We included 297 papers in qualitative synthesis. RESULTS Our review identified three primary mechanisms that underlie persistent smoking among depressed smokers: low positive affect, high negative affect and cognitive impairment. We propose a novel application of incentive learning theory which posits that depressed smokers experience greater increases in the expected value of smoking in the face of these three motivational states, which promotes goal-directed choice of smoking behavior over alternative actions. CONCLUSIONS The incentive learning theory accounts for current evidence on how depression primes smoking behavior and provides a unique framework for conceptualizing psychological mechanisms of smoking maintenance among depressed smokers. Treatment should focus upon correcting adverse internal states and beliefs about the high value of smoking in those states to improve cessation outcomes for depressed smokers.
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- Amanda R. Mathew
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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- Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
- William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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Powers JM, Carroll AJ, Veluz-Wilkins AK, Blazekovic S, Gariti P, Leone FT, Schnoll RA, Hitsman B. Is the Effect of Anhedonia on Smoking Cessation Greater for Women Versus Men? Nicotine Tob Res 2017; 19:119-123. [PMID: 27287389 PMCID: PMC5157712 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntw148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 05/25/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Anhedonia has been recognized as a major risk factor for smoking persistence. Potential gender differences in the effect of anhedonia on smoking cessation have not been studied. Using data from a completed clinical trial of maintenance nicotine patch therapy, we hypothesized that gender would moderate the effect of anhedonia on short-term abstinence, such that anhedonic women would be less likely to achieve abstinence. METHODS Participants (N = 525; 50% female, 48.2% Black/African American, average age: 46 years) received 21mg/day nicotine patch and four brief behavior counseling sessions over 8 weeks. Participants were classified at baseline using the Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale as anhedonic (scores > 2) or hedonic (scores ≤ 2). Bioverified 7-day point prevalence abstinence was measured at week 8. Using logistic regression analysis, we tested the interaction of anhedonia by gender predicting abstinence, adjusting for age, race, nicotine dependence, and baseline depressive symptomatology. RESULTS Seventy participants (13%) were classified as anhedonic. Men were more likely to be anhedonic than women (16.6% vs. 10.2%, p = .03). Contrary to our hypothesis, the interaction of anhedonic status (hedonic vs. anhedonic) by gender was nonsignificant (p = .18). There was a main effect of hedonic capacity, such that anhedonia predicted abstinence, odds ratio = 3.24, 95% confidence interval = 1.39-7.51, p = .006. CONCLUSION Both male and female anhedonic smokers were more likely to be abstinent, which contrasts with prior research indicating that anhedonia is a risk factor for difficulty quitting. This unexpected finding may be explained by a possible selective benefit of nicotine patch therapy, which has been observed in some studies to have antidepressant effects. IMPLICATIONS This is the first study to examine whether the association between pretreatment anhedonia and smoking cessation differs by gender. For both women and men, anhedonia was associated with a greater likelihood of abstinence after 8 weeks of treatment with 21mg/day nicotine patch and behavior counseling. Our findings indicate that the association between anhedonia and smoking cessation is not as clear as has been assumed and may depend in part on the type of treatment delivered.
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- Jessica M Powers
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL;
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Dahne J, Murphy JG, MacPherson L. Depressive Symptoms and Cigarette Demand as a Function of Induced Stress. Nicotine Tob Res 2017; 19:49-58. [PMID: 27245238 PMCID: PMC5157711 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntw145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2015] [Accepted: 05/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Depressed smokers may disproportionately value cigarettes as compared to other reinforcers in the context of increases in negative affect (NA). Thus, cigarette demand may be an important construct for understanding the relationship between depression, NA change, and tobacco use. The aim of the current study was to examine the interaction between depressive symptoms and change in NA as a function of induced mood as a predictor of cigarette demand. METHODS Participants included 73 young adult daily smokers (41.70% female, 73.60% White, age M (SD) = 19.70 (1.15)) who attended two experimental sessions: one stress and one neutral. During each session, participants completed ratings of depressive symptoms, NA, and cigarette demand. RESULTS We examined the predictive utility of depressive symptoms, change in NA as a result of a stressor, and the interaction between depressive symptoms and NA change on demand indices. Separate models were constructed by session. Results indicated significant interactive effects between depressive symptoms and change in NA for predicting intensity, breakpoint, and P max during the stress session. Specifically, change in NA moderated the relationship between depression and demand indices such that among individuals high in NA change, depressive symptoms were positively related to P max and breakpoint, whereas among individuals low in NA change, depressive symptoms were positively related to intensity. CONCLUSIONS When exposed to stress, cigarettes may become more valuable for individuals with depressive symptoms. IMPLICATIONS This study contributes to the literature attempting to understand the complex relationships between depression, stress-related changes in NA, and tobacco use. This study suggests that one mechanism that may be important to the relationship between depression and tobacco use is cigarette demand. Specifically, for individuals with elevated depressive symptoms, certain aspects of cigarette demand may be higher (intensity, breakpoint, and P max) when exposed to stress, which may contribute to tobacco use being maintained over time.
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- Jennifer Dahne
- Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD;
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
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- Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
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- Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD
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Tidey JW. A behavioral economic perspective on smoking persistence in serious mental illness. Prev Med 2016; 92:31-35. [PMID: 27196141 PMCID: PMC5085837 DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2016] [Revised: 05/05/2016] [Accepted: 05/15/2016] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Serious mental illness (SMI) is associated with disproportionately high rates of cigarette smoking. The identification of factors that contribute to persistent smoking in people with SMI may lead to the development and adoption of tobacco control policies and treatment approaches that help these smokers quit. This commentary examines factors underlying smoking persistence in people with SMI from the perspective of behavioral economics, a discipline that applies economic principles to understanding drug abuse and dependence. Studies, conducted in the Northeastern US within the past 30years, that compare the reinforcing effects of nicotine and the costs of smoking in smokers with and without schizophrenia and depression are discussed, and interventions that may reduce the reinforcing efficacy of nicotine and increase the costs of smoking in people with SMI are described.
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- Jennifer W Tidey
- Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States.
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Schnoll RA, Hitsman B, Blazekovic S, Veluz-Wilkins A, Wileyto EP, Leone FT, Audrain-McGovern JE. Longitudinal changes in smoking abstinence symptoms and alternative reinforcers predict long-term smoking cessation outcomes. Drug Alcohol Depend 2016; 165:245-52. [PMID: 27372219 PMCID: PMC4943211 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2016] [Revised: 06/16/2016] [Accepted: 06/17/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Transdermal nicotine, with behavioral counseling, is among the most popular approaches used to quit smoking. Yet, 6-month cessation rates rarely exceed 20-25%. Identifying factors associated with cessation success may help researchers and clinicians develop enhanced interventions that can improve quit rates. This study examined longitudinal changes in withdrawal, craving, depression and anxiety symptoms, and alternative reinforcers, from a baseline assessment to a 6-month outcome, as predictors of 6-month smoking cessation outcomes following 8 weeks of nicotine patch treatment and counseling. METHODS A sample of 180 smokers, who completed an effectiveness trial that provided counseling and 8 weeks of 21mg nicotine patches, was analyzed. Generalized estimating equations evaluated changes in withdrawal and craving, depression and anxiety symptoms, and alternative reinforcers over time, between participants who were smoking at 6-months and participants who were abstinent (confirmed with carbon monoxide) at 6-months. Multiple logistic regression assessed changes in these variables as predictors of relapse. RESULTS Controlling for covariates associated with cessation (i.e., nicotine dependence, patch adherence, and rate of nicotine metabolism), participants who were abstinent at 6 months showed significantly lower craving and withdrawal and significantly higher substitute reinforcers from baseline to 6 months, vs. those who were smoking at 6 months (p<0.001). An increase in craving predicted relapse to smoking (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS These results support continued efforts to strengthen interventions that reduce withdrawal and craving and the development of interventions to address alternative reinforcers in order to promote long-term smoking abstinence following nicotine patch treatment.
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- Robert A Schnoll
- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Suite 4100, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 680N Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Suite 4100, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 680N Lakeshore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Suite 4100, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania, Presbyterian Medical Center, 51N. 39th Street, 1st Floor Rear, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market Street, Suite 4100, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States
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Wong JA, Leventhal AM. Smoking-related correlates of psychomotor restlessness and agitation in a community sample of daily cigarette smokers. Am J Addict 2016; 24:166-172. [PMID: 25864606 DOI: 10.1111/ajad.12158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Revised: 06/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Psychomotor restlessness and agitation (PMA) is a putatively important, yet understudied, psychopathologic correlate of smoking. The scant smoking research on PMA previously conducted has been narrow in scope and conducted among psychiatric patients. To examine the generalizability and relevance of PMA to smoking, this cross-sectional study investigated associations between PMA and a variety of smoking processes in a community sample. METHODS Participants in this study were non-treatment-seeking smokers (N = 254, ≥10 cig/day, M age = 44 years) from the community without an active mood disorder. At baseline, they completed a PMA symptom checklist, a composite depressive symptom index, and a battery of smoking questionnaires. RESULTS Linear regression models adjusting for depressive symptoms and demographics indicated that PMA level was positively associated with severity of nicotine withdrawal symptoms during prior quit attempts (β = .18, p < .05), anticipated likelihood of withdrawal in a future quit attempt (β = .19, p < .05), motivation to smoke for negative reinforcement (β = .14, p < .05), and smoking expectancies for negative reinforcement (β = .17, p < .05), negative consequences (β = .22, p < .01), and positive reinforcement (β = .14, p < .05). PMA was not significantly associated with smoking chronicity, frequency, or dependence severity. CONCLUSION AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE Smokers with elevated PMA appear to experience greater smoking-induced affect modulation and nicotine withdrawal than the average smoker, regardless of other depressive symptoms. Given that PMA differentiates a qualitatively unique profile of smoking characteristics, PMA warrants consideration in tobacco addiction research and practice.
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- Jordan A Wong
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.,Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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Mathew AR, Cook JW, Japuntich SJ, Leventhal AM. Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, underlying affective vulnerabilities, and smoking for affect regulation. Am J Addict 2016; 24:39-46. [PMID: 25823634 DOI: 10.1111/ajad.12170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2014] [Revised: 08/11/2014] [Accepted: 10/01/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is overrepresented among cigarette smokers. It has been hypothesized that those with PTSD smoke to alleviate negative affect and counteract deficient positive affect commonly associated with the disorder; however, limited research has examined associations between PTSD symptoms, smoking motives, and affective vulnerability factors. In the current study, we examined (1) whether PTSD symptoms were associated with positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement smoking motives; and (2) whether two affective vulnerability factors implicated in PTSD-anxiety sensitivity and anhedonia-mediated relationships between PTSD symptoms and smoking motives. METHODS Data were drawn from a community sample of non-treatment-seeking smokers recruited without regard for trauma history (N = 342; 10+ cig/day). We used the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) to assess overall PTSD symptom severity as well as individual PTSD subfactors. RESULTS Overall, PTSD symptom severity was significantly associated with negative reinforcement, but not positive reinforcement, smoking motives. Variation in anxiety sensitivity significantly mediated the relation between PTSD symptom severity and negative reinforcement smoking motives, whereas anhedonia did not. Regarding PTSD subfactors, emotional numbing was the only PTSD subfactor associated with smoking rate, while re-experiencing symptoms were uniquely associated with both positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement smoking motives. CONCLUSIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE Findings suggest that anxiety sensitivity may be an important feature associated with PTSD that enhances motivation to smoke for negative reinforcement purposes. Smoking cessation interventions that alleviate anxiety sensitivity and enhance coping with negative affect may be useful for smokers with elevated PTSD symptoms.
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- Amanda R Mathew
- Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, Souuth Carolina
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Psychometric properties, validity, and reliability of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale state version in an opioid-dependent sample. Drug Alcohol Depend 2016; 161:238-46. [PMID: 26944468 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2015] [Revised: 01/29/2016] [Accepted: 02/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Individuals with substance dependence commonly experience anhedonia. Theories of anhedonia distinguish between anticipatory and consummatory reward deficits, with the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS) the first self-report scale to separately measure these two constructs. Several psychometric studies have analysed the trait version of the TEPS, but the state version of the TEPS has not been previously validated. METHODS We examined the psychometric properties of the state version of the TEPS in 121 individuals with opiate dependence (81% Australian-born), to confirm its 2-factor structure and examine the internal consistency, convergent and divergent validity, test-retest reliability, and performance as a state measure. RESULTS Confirmation of the 2-factor solution required removal of two items and allowing correlation between residuals of three pairs of highly-similar items. The resulting consummatory and anticipatory scales correlated strongly with each other (r=.76), suggesting poor divergent validity between them. Nevertheless, the scale showed good internal consistency (Chronbach's α: anticipatory=.90; consummatory=.84; total=.92), convergent (TEPS total and Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale r=-.76) and divergent validity (-.38<r<-.10 for measures of negative affect, anxiety, and alexithymia) with other psychological measures, and test-retest reliability. Changes in TEPS scores between baseline and 1-month follow-up correlated well with changes in scores on other state anhedonia and positive affect measures, suggesting that the TEPS state version functions well as a state measure. CONCLUSION In opioid-dependent participants, the TEPS state version appeared to have good validity as a measure of state anhedonia. However, evidence for its ability to distinguish between consummatory and anticipatory anhedonia was weak.
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Leventhal AM. The Sociopharmacology of Tobacco Addiction: Implications for Understanding Health Disparities. Nicotine Tob Res 2016; 18:110-21. [PMID: 25890832 PMCID: PMC5967296 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 03/31/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Efforts to reduce the public health burden of tobacco use have not equally benefited all members of society, leading to disparities in tobacco use as a function of ethnicity/race, socioeconomic position, physical/behavioral comorbidity, and other factors. Although multilevel transdisciplinary models are needed to comprehensively understand sources of tobacco-related health disparities (TRHD), the incorporation of psychopharmacology into TRHD research is rare. Similarly, psychopharmacology researchers have often overlooked the societal context in which tobacco is consumed. In an effort to facilitate transdisciplinary research agendas for studying TRHD and the psychopharmacology of tobacco use, this article introduces a novel paradigm, called "sociopharmacology." Sociopharmacology is a platform for investigating how contextual factors amplify psychopharmacological determinants of smoking to disproportionately enhance vulnerability to smoking in populations subject to TRHD. The overall goal of sociopharmacology is to identify proximal person-level psychopharmacological mechanisms that channel distal societal-level influences on TRHD. In this article I describe: (1) sociopharmacology's overarching methodology and theoretical framework; (2) example models that apply sociopharmacology to understand mechanisms underlying TRHD; (3) how sociopharmacological approaches may enhance the public health impact of basic research on the psychopharmacology of tobacco use; and (4) how understanding sociopharmacological mechanisms of TRHD might ultimately translate into interventions that reduce TRHD.
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- Adam M Leventhal
- Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Bello MS, Pang RD, Cropsey KL, Zvolensky MJ, Reitzel LR, Huh J, Leventhal AM. Tobacco Withdrawal Amongst African American, Hispanic, and White Smokers. Nicotine Tob Res 2015; 18:1479-87. [PMID: 26482061 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2015] [Accepted: 10/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Persistent tobacco use among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States is a critical public health concern. Yet, potential sources of racial/ethnic disparities in tobacco use remain unclear. The present study examined racial/ethnic differences in tobacco withdrawal-a clinically-relevant underpinning of tobacco use that has received sparse attention in the disparities literature-utilizing a controlled laboratory design. METHODS Daily smokers (non-Hispanic African American [n = 178], non-Hispanic white [n = 118], and Hispanic [n = 28]) attended two counterbalanced sessions (non-abstinent vs. 16-hour abstinent). At both sessions, self-report measures of urge, nicotine withdrawal, and affect were administered and performance on an objective behavioral task that assessed motivation to reinstate smoking was recorded. Abstinence-induced changes (abstinent scores vs. non-abstinent scores) were analyzed as a function of race/ethnicity. RESULTS Non-Hispanic African American smokers reported greater abstinence-induced declines in several positive affect states in comparison to other racial/ethnic groups. Relative to Hispanic smokers, non-Hispanic African American and non-Hispanic white smokers displayed larger abstinence-provoked increases in urges to smoke. No racial/ethnic differences were detected for a composite measure of nicotine withdrawal symptomatology, negative affect states, and motivation to reinstate smoking behavior. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest qualitative differences in the expression of some components of tobacco withdrawal across three racial/ethnic groups. This research helps shed light on bio-behavioral sources of tobacco-related health disparities, informs the application of smoking cessation interventions across racial/ethnic groups, and may ultimately aid the overall effort towards reducing the public health burden of tobacco addiction in minority populations. IMPLICATIONS The current study provides some initial evidence that there may be qualitative differences in the types of tobacco withdrawal symptoms experienced among non-Hispanic African American, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white smokers. Extending this line of inquiry may elucidate mechanisms involved in tobacco-related health disparities and ultimately aid in reducing the public health burden of smoking in racial/ethnic minority populations.
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- Mariel S Bello
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL
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- Department of Psychological, Health, and Learning Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;
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Aguirre CG, Bello MS, Andrabi N, Pang RD, Hendricks PS, Bluthenthal RN, Leventhal AM. Gender, Ethnicity, and Their Intersectionality in the Prediction of Smoking Outcome Expectancies in Regular Cigarette Smokers. Behav Modif 2015; 40:281-302. [PMID: 26438665 DOI: 10.1177/0145445515608146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The current study utilized the intersectionality framework to explore whether smoking outcome expectancies (i.e., cognitions about the anticipated effects of smoking) were predicted by gender and ethnicity, and the gender-by-ethnicity interaction. In a cross-sectional design, daily smokers from the general community (32.2% women; non-Hispanic African American [n = 175], non-Hispanic White [n = 109], or Hispanic [n = 26]) completed self-report measures on smoking expectancies and other co-factors. Results showed that women reported greater negative reinforcement (i.e., anticipated smoking-induced negative affect reduction) and weight control (i.e., anticipated smoking-induced appetite/weight suppression) expectancies than men. Hispanic (vs. African American or White) smokers endorsed greater negative reinforcement expectancies. A gender-by-ethnicity interaction was found for weight control expectancies, such that White women reported greater weight control expectancies than White men, but no gender differences among African American and Hispanic smokers were found. These findings suggest that gender, ethnicity, and their intersectionality should be considered in research on cognitive mechanisms that may contribute to tobacco-related health disparities.
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- Claudia G Aguirre
- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
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Hogarth L, He Z, Chase HW, Wills AJ, Troisi J, Leventhal AM, Mathew AR, Hitsman B. Negative mood reverses devaluation of goal-directed drug-seeking favouring an incentive learning account of drug dependence. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2015; 232:3235-47. [PMID: 26041336 PMCID: PMC4534490 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-015-3977-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Accepted: 05/20/2015] [Indexed: 10/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Two theories explain how negative mood primes smoking behaviour. The stimulus-response (S-R) account argues that in the negative mood state, smoking is experienced as more reinforcing, establishing a direct (automatic) association between the negative mood state and smoking behaviour. By contrast, the incentive learning account argues that in the negative mood state smoking is expected to be more reinforcing, which integrates with instrumental knowledge of the response required to produce that outcome. OBJECTIVES One differential prediction is that whereas the incentive learning account anticipates that negative mood induction could augment a novel tobacco-seeking response in an extinction test, the S-R account could not explain this effect because the extinction test prevents S-R learning by omitting experience of the reinforcer. METHODS To test this, overnight-deprived daily smokers (n = 44) acquired two instrumental responses for tobacco and chocolate points, respectively, before smoking to satiety. Half then received negative mood induction to raise the expected value of tobacco, opposing satiety, whilst the remainder received positive mood induction. Finally, a choice between tobacco and chocolate was measured in extinction to test whether negative mood could augment tobacco choice, opposing satiety, in the absence of direct experience of tobacco reinforcement. RESULTS Negative mood induction not only abolished the devaluation of tobacco choice, but participants with a significant increase in negative mood increased their tobacco choice in extinction, despite satiety. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that negative mood augments drug-seeking by raising the expected value of the drug through incentive learning, rather than through automatic S-R control.
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- Lee Hogarth
- School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Building, Perry Road, Exeter, EX4 4QG, UK,
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Aguirre CG, Madrid J, Leventhal AM. Tobacco withdrawal symptoms mediate motivation to reinstate smoking during abstinence. JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 2015; 124:623-34. [PMID: 25961814 PMCID: PMC4573778 DOI: 10.1037/abn0000060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Withdrawal-based theories of addiction hypothesize that motivation to reinstate drug use following acute abstinence is mediated by withdrawal symptoms. Experimental tests of this hypothesis in the tobacco literature are scant and may be subject to methodological limitations. This study utilized a robust within-subject laboratory experimental design to investigate the extent to which composite tobacco withdrawal symptomatology level and 3 unique withdrawal components (i.e., low positive affect, negative affect, and urge to smoke) mediated the effect of smoking abstinence on motivation to reinstate smoking. Smokers (≥10 cigarettes per day; N = 286) attended 2 counterbalanced sessions at which abstinence duration was differentially manipulated (1 hr vs. 17 hr). At both sessions, participants reported current withdrawal symptoms and subsequently completed a task in which they were monetarily rewarded proportional to the length of time they delayed initiating smoking, with shorter latency reflecting stronger motivation to reinstate smoking. Abstinence reduced latency to smoking initiation and positive affect and increased composite withdrawal symptom level, urge, and negative affect. Abstinence-induced reductions in latency to initiating smoking were mediated by each withdrawal component, with stronger effects operating through urge. Combined analyses suggested that urge, negative affect, and low positive affect operate through empirically unique mediational pathways. Secondary analyses suggested similar effects on smoking quantity, few differences among specific urge and affect subtypes, and that dependence amplifies some abstinence effects. This study provides the first experimental evidence that within-person variation in abstinence impacts motivation to reinstate drug use through withdrawal. Urge, negative affect, and low positive affect may reflect unique withdrawal-mediated mechanisms underlying tobacco addiction.
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Ameringer KJ, Leventhal AM. Psychological symptoms, smoking lapse behavior, and the mediating effects of nicotine withdrawal symptoms: A laboratory study. PSYCHOLOGY OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS 2015; 29:71-81. [PMID: 25243836 PMCID: PMC4407813 DOI: 10.1037/adb0000029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The influence of psychological symptoms on smoking-lapse behavior is critical to understand. However, this relationship is obscured by comorbidity across multiple forms of psychological symptoms and their overlap with nicotine withdrawal. To address these challenges, we constructed a structural model of latent factors underlying 9 manifest scales of affective and behavioral symptoms and tested relations between latent factors and manifest scale residuals with nicotine withdrawal and smoking lapse in a laboratory analog task. Adult daily smokers (N = 286) completed a baseline session at which several forms of affective and behavioral symptoms were assessed and 2 experimental sessions (i.e., following 16 hr of smoking abstinence and following regular smoking), during which withdrawal symptoms and delay of smoking in exchange for monetary reinforcement, as an analogue for lapse propensity, were measured. A single second-order factor of general psychological maladjustment associated with more severe withdrawal-like symptoms, which in turn associated with shorter delay of smoking. The first-order factors, which tapped qualitatively unique domains of psychological symptoms (low positive affect, negative affect, disinhibition), and the manifest scale residuals provided little predictive power beyond the second-order factor with regard to lapse behavior. Relations among general psychological maladjustment, withdrawal-like symptoms, and lapse were significant in both abstinent and nonabstinent conditions, suggesting that psychological maladjustment, and not nicotine withdrawal per se, accounted for the relation with lapse. These results highlight the potential for smoking-cessation strategies that target general psychological maladjustment processes and have implications for addressing withdrawal-like symptoms among individuals with psychological symptoms.
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Leventhal AM, Zvolensky MJ. Anxiety, depression, and cigarette smoking: a transdiagnostic vulnerability framework to understanding emotion-smoking comorbidity. Psychol Bull 2015; 141:176-212. [PMID: 25365764 PMCID: PMC4293352 DOI: 10.1037/bul0000003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 335] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Research into the comorbidity between emotional psychopathology and cigarette smoking has often focused upon anxiety and depression's manifest symptoms and syndromes, with limited theoretical and clinical advancement. This article presents a novel framework to understanding emotion-smoking comorbidity. We propose that transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities-core biobehavioral traits reflecting maladaptive responses to emotional states that underpin multiple types of emotional psychopathology-link various anxiety and depressive psychopathologies to smoking. This framework is applied in a review and synthesis of the empirical literature on 3 transdiagnostic emotional vulnerabilities implicated in smoking: (a) anhedonia (Anh; diminished pleasure/interest in response to rewards), (b) anxiety sensitivity (AS; fear of anxiety-related sensations), and (c) distress tolerance (DT; ability to withstand distressing states). We conclude that Anh, AS, and DT collectively (a) underpin multiple emotional psychopathologies, (b) amplify smoking's anticipated and actual affect-enhancing properties and other mechanisms underlying smoking, (c) promote progression across the smoking trajectory (i.e., initiation, escalation/progression, maintenance, cessation/relapse), and (d) are promising targets for smoking intervention. After existing gaps are identified, an integrative model of transdiagnostic processes linking emotional psychopathology to smoking is proposed. The model's key premise is that Anh amplifies smoking's anticipated and actual pleasure-enhancing effects, AS amplifies smoking's anxiolytic effects, and poor DT amplifies smoking's distress terminating effects. Collectively, these processes augment the reinforcing properties of smoking for individuals with emotional psychopathology to heighten risk of smoking initiation, progression, maintenance, cessation avoidance, and relapse. We conclude by drawing clinical and scientific implications from this framework that may generalize to other comorbidities.
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- Adam M Leventhal
- Department of Psychology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
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Audrain-McGovern J, Leventhal AM, Strong DR. The Role of Depression in the Uptake and Maintenance of Cigarette Smoking. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF NEUROBIOLOGY 2015; 124:209-43. [PMID: 26472531 PMCID: PMC7518154 DOI: 10.1016/bs.irn.2015.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Cigarette smoking and depression both account for significant morbidity, mortality, and economic burden. The prevalence of both smoking and depression increase across mid-to-late adolescence and show high rates of comorbidity. While little is known about why smoking is disproportionately higher among depressed adolescents than adolescents without depression, emerging research has begun to offer some initial insights. The high rates of comorbidity between depression and smoking emphasize the importance of identifying intervention targets to inform smoking prevention efforts for this high-risk group. Interventions during adolescence may lessen the prevalence of depression-prone adult smokers. Depression is over-represented among adult smokers and contributes to lower smoking cessation rates. Negative mood management and pharmacotherapy have been the central focus of smoking cessation interventions for depression-prone populations to date. Converging lines of research highlight novel smoking cessation targets such as the maintenance of positive mood and reward regulation. Smoking cessation research in depression-prone smokers is critical to identify efficacious treatments that will ultimately decrease the excess smoking burden for this population.
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- Janet Audrain-McGovern
- Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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- Departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Diego, California, USA
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Pang RD, Zvolensky MJ, Schmidt NB, Leventhal AM. Gender differences in negative reinforcement smoking expectancies. Nicotine Tob Res 2014; 17:750-4. [PMID: 25344957 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntu226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 10/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that females may be more motivated to smoke for negative reinforcement (NR) than males. However, it remains unclear whether gender differences in smoking outcome expectancies for negative smoking reinforcement-an important theoretical and clinical target defined as beliefs that smoking alleviates negative affect-exist above and beyond gender differences in depression and/or other outcome expectancies. METHODS Relations between gender and negative smoking reinforcement expectancies were examined in two independent samples. Sample 1 consisted of non-treatment seeking daily smokers (Male n = 188; Female n = 91) recruited from Southern California (49.5% Black, 32.2% Caucasian, and 18.3% other race/ethnicity). Sample 2 consisted of treatment seeking daily smokers (Male n = 257; Female n = 237) in Northern Florida and Vermont (10.7% Black, 82.9% Caucasian, and 6.4% other). RESULTS Females (vs. males) reported stronger NR smoking expectancies with and without statistically controlling for nicotine dependence, other smoking expectancies, and anxiety and depression in both samples (βs = .06 to .14, ps = .06 to < .001). CONCLUSIONS Beliefs that smoking alleviates negative affect may reflect a gender-specific etiological process disproportionately prominent in women. Enhancing ability to cope with negative affect without smoking or challenge NR expectancies may be particularly important for cessation treatment in women.
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- Raina D Pang
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA;
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Ameringer KJ, Chou CP, Leventhal AM. Shared versus specific features of psychological symptoms and cigarettes per day: structural relations and mediation by negative- and positive-reinforcement smoking. J Behav Med 2014; 38:224-36. [PMID: 25231408 DOI: 10.1007/s10865-014-9597-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2014] [Accepted: 09/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study examined the extent to which shared versus specific features across multiple manifestations of psychological symptoms (depression, anxiety, ADHD, aggression, alcohol misuse) associated with cigarettes per day. Subsequently, we investigated whether negative- (i.e., withdrawal relief) and positive- (i.e., pleasure enhancement) reinforcement smoking motivations mediated relations. Adult daily smokers (N = 338) completed self-report measures and structural equation modeling was used to construct a 3-factor (low positive affect-negative affect-disinhibition) model of affective and behavioral symptoms and to test relations of each latent factor (shared features) and indicator residual (specific features) to smoking level. Shared dimensions of low positive affect, negative affect, and disinhibition associated with smoking rate. Negative-reinforcement smoking mediated the link between latent negative affect and heavier daily smoking. Specific features of psychological symptoms unique from latent factors were generally not associated with cigarettes per day. Features shared across several forms of psychological symptoms appear to underpin relations between psychological symptoms and smoking rate.
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- Katherine J Ameringer
- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA
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Zvolensky MJ, Farris SG, Guillot CR, Leventhal AM. Anxiety sensitivity as an amplifier of subjective and behavioral tobacco abstinence effects. Drug Alcohol Depend 2014; 142:224-30. [PMID: 25015688 PMCID: PMC4127105 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2014] [Revised: 05/01/2014] [Accepted: 06/17/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Anxiety sensitivity, a transdiagnostic cognitive vulnerability factor described as an amplifier of negative emotional states, is implicated in the maintenance of cigarette smoking and cessation difficulties. The current study aimed to examine the role of anxiety sensitivity in predicting abstinence-induced changes in nicotine withdrawal, smoking urges and smoking behavior during an experimental relapse analogue task (RAT). METHOD Participants were 258 non-treatment seeking smokers (M [SD] age=44.0 [10.73]; 69.8% male). Participants attended two counterbalanced experimental sessions including smoking deprivation (16 h of smoking abstinence) and smoking as usual. The Minnesota Nicotine Withdrawal Scale (MNWS) and Brief Questionnaire of Smoking Urges (QSU) were completed at each session in addition to the RAT. Hierarchical regressions were conducted to examine the predictive impact of anxiety sensitivity on withdrawal and urges during smoking deprivation. Follow-up mediational analyses were conducted to examine whether abstinence-induced withdrawal and urges mediated responding during the RAT. RESULTS Anxiety sensitivity amplified the effects of experimentally manipulated acute abstinence on subjective nicotine withdrawal symptoms and smoking urges. Additionally, higher levels of anxiety sensitivity indirectly predicted shorter latency to smoking initiation after deprivation during the RAT through the effects of greater abstinence-induced nicotine withdrawal and smoking urges. Anxiety sensitivity was unrelated to increased smoking during the RAT, although this may be partially attributed to the type of laboratory assessment employed. CONCLUSIONS Elevated anxiety sensitivity appears to impact initiation of smoking after nicotine deprivation through the effects of abstinence-induced withdrawal and smoking urges.
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- Michael J Zvolensky
- University of Houston, Department of Psychology, Fred J. Heyne Building, Suite 104, Houston, TX 77204, USA; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Behavioral Science, 1155 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Behavioral Science, 1155 Pressler Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, 2250 Alcazar, St, CSC 240, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, 2250 Alcazar, St, CSC 240, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, 2250 Alcazar, St, CSC 240, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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Reitzel LR, Leventhal AM. Socioeconomic status and the reward value of smoking following tobacco abstinence: a laboratory study. Nicotine Tob Res 2014; 16:1455-62. [PMID: 24935756 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntu100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Socioeconomic status (SES) indicators are robustly associated with smoking behaviors. Yet, the psychological mechanisms underlying relations are unclear. This study merged the socioecological construct of SES with laboratory psychological science to investigate how income, education, and employment status predicted the reward value of smoking following tobacco abstinence among a diverse sample of adult daily smokers. We hypothesized that participants with lower SES (i.e., less education, lower income, and unemployed) would experience greater abstinence-induced enhancement of the reward value of smoking. METHODS Adult smokers (N = 240; 68.7% male; 51.7% Black, 33.8% White, 7.1% Latino, and 7.5% other) attended 2 laboratory sessions (1 nonabstinent and 1 following 16-hr tobacco abstinence) involving behavioral assessment of (a) latency to smoking when delaying smoking was monetarily rewarded and (b) purchasing individual cigarettes. Generalized estimating equations were used to test the interaction between each SES variable (education, income, and employment) and abstinence state to illustrate whether participants with certain SES characteristics were more sensitive to the abstinence-induced enhancement of the relative reward value of smoking. RESULTS Participants who never attended college (vs. college attendees) exhibited greater abstinence-induced enhancement of the reward value of smoking, which was indicated by reduced willingness to delay smoking for money (ps = .03). Income and employment status did not moderate abstinence effects. CONCLUSIONS Less-educated smokers were particularly motivated to smoke during acute abstinence. Observed educational disparities in smoking behaviors and smoking cessation might reflect a biased valuation of immediate drug-related (over less immediate alternative) rewards. Future research should explore potential mediators of this association.
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- Lorraine R Reitzel
- Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Houston, Houston, TX;
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- Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Psychology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
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