Journal article
Self-reported abstinence effects in the first month after smoking cessation
Addictive behaviors, Vol.26(3), pp.311-327
2001
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4603(00)00107-6
PMID: 11436924
Abstract
The present study evaluated self-reported subjective complaints (29 single items and 11 scales) at precessation, on quit day, and on Days 1, 2, 3, 7, 14, 21, and 28 after cessation in 46 healthy quitters who remained abstinent for the first month after cessation (biochemically confirmed). Also tested on the same schedule were 29 nonsmokers matched for age and gender. Specific criteria were set for transient and offset effects based on the direction, magnitude, and time course of changes in symptoms after cessation. Results indicated that single-item anger, anxiety, depression, difficulty concentrating, irritability, restlessness, dizziness, and nausea, and the Shiffman–Jarvik Stimulation/Sedation Subscale, the Perceived Stress scale, and the POMS anger, confusion, and tension subscales met the criteria for transient effects, and that single-item desire to smoke, cough, and headache, and the Shiffman–Jarvik Psychological Subscale met the criteria for offset effects. These findings help to clarify which subjective complaints after smoking cessation are transient effects and which are offset effects, a distinction with important implications for understanding nicotine dependence and for designing pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions for smoking cessation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Self-reported abstinence effects in the first month after smoking cessation
- Creators
- Marcia M Ward - Department of Health Management and Policy, 2726 Steindler Building, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1008, USAGary E Swan - Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, Menlo, CA, USALisa M Jack - Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, Menlo, CA, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Addictive behaviors, Vol.26(3), pp.311-327
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0306-4603(00)00107-6
- PMID
- 11436924
- ISSN
- 0306-4603
- eISSN
- 1873-6327
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Record Identifier
- 9984214686702771
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