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An evaluation of the role of smoking context on a biobehavioral index of distress tolerance.
Full Abstract
The present study evaluated the effect of smoking deprivation on a biobehavioral index of distress tolerance, breath-holding duration, among 43 adult smokers in a repeated measures test (Session 1=smoking-as-usual, Session 2=12-h smoking deprivation). We theorized that distress tolerance is a context-dependent individual difference variable whose expression varies prospectively, within-individuals, as a function of smoking context. As predicted, participants' breath-holding duration was significantly shorter during an experimental session that immediately followed a 12-h smoking deprivation period than during a smoking-as-usual session. Furthermore, we theorized that among individuals with a pre-existing diathesis (i.e., psychiatric symptoms), smoking deprivation may activate a vulnerability process that decreases capacity to tolerate distress; in the absence of this stressor, these psychiatrically vulnerable smokers may express variable levels of distress tolerance. As predicted, we observed that level of psychiatric symptoms was significantly negatively correlated with breath-holding duration during the smoking deprivation, but not the smoking-as-usual session. These data advance our understanding of smoking and distress tolerance and the context-dependent phenomenology of distress tolerance.
Author information
Author/s: Bernstein, A (A); Trafton, J (J); Ilgen, M (M); Zvolensky, M J (MJ);
Affiliation: Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Health Care System, USA. Amit.Bernstein(-atsign-)stanford.edu
Grants: 1 R01 DA018734-01A1 (Agency:NIDA NIH HHS) ; 1 R01 MH076629-01 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; R03 DA16307-01 (Agency:NIDA NIH HHS)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Journal: Addictive behaviors (Addict Behav), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2008-Nov; vol 33 (issue 11) : pp 1409-15
Dates: Created 2008/09/08; Completed 2009/03/24;
PMID: 18657912, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 3/24/2009, IMS Date: 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00)
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