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- Title
Anxiety, Depression and Tobacco Abstinence.
- Authors
PACHECO, VIRGINIA ALMADANA; FERNÁNDEZ, ANA PAULINA GÓMEZ-BASTERO; MORALES, AGUSTÍN VALIDO; CRESPO, ESTEFANÍA LUQUE; GARCÍA, SOLEDAD MONSERRAT; RUBIO, TEODORO MONTEMAYOR
- Abstract
There is evidence of the relationship between mental illness and smoking and increased risk of depressive episodes after quitting smoking, even with specific treatments for abstinence. Objective: To assess the influence of a cessation program on the emotional state of patients by measuring levels of anxiety / depression and differences depending on the presence of psychiatric history. Method: A prospective observational study of patients taking part in a combined program (pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral) for giving up smoking. Anxiety (A) and depression (D) were measured using the HADS questionnaire at baseline, first and third month of abstinence. Results: Anxiety and depression showed significant and progressive improvement during treatment (A: baseline 9.2 ± 4.5, 5.9 ± 3.6 1 month, 3 months 4.5 ± 3.1, p <0 05 / D: baseline 5.5 ± 4.1; 1 month 3 ± 3; 3 months 2.3 ± 2.1, p <0.05), in psychiatry population (A: baseline 11.3 ± 4, 5; 1 month 7.1 ± 3.7, 5.3 ± 3.5 3 months, p <0.05 / D: baseline 7.4 ± 4.8, 4.2 ± 3.6 one month; 3 months 3 ± 2.9, p <0.05), regardless of treatment. Abstinence rate: 58.5%, unaffected by baseline levels of anxiety and depression. No significant neuropsychiatric side effects were detected. Conclusions: Anxiety and depression levels evolved favourably during the program, achieving good results regardless of the presence of psychiatric pathology.
- Subjects
ANXIETY; MENTAL depression; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of tobacco; NICOTINE addiction; DRUG abstinence; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Adicciones, 2017, Vol 29, Issue 4, p233
- ISSN
0214-4840
- Publication type
Article