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- Title
Delineating a Relationship Between Problematic Anger and Cigarette Smoking: A Population-Based Study.
- Authors
Cougle, Jesse R.; Zvolensky, Michael J.; Hawkins, Kirsten A.
- Abstract
Background: Research implicates a potentially important relationship between anger and smoking, though extant work suffers from a number of limitations, including the absence of controls for psychiatric comorbidity and the use of treatment-seeking samples. The current study sought to examine the unique associations between problematic anger and smoking behavior in a large representative sample. Methods: Participants included 5,692 adults from the National Comorbidity Survey-Replication, a nationally representative survey. Assessments of psychiatric diagnoses, smoking behavior, and problematic anger were administered. Results: Results indicated that problems of anger experience were significantly associated with past-year daily smoking, heavy smoking, and nicotine dependence. After controlling for demographics and psychiatric comorbidity, anger experience was uniquely associated with each of these outcomes. Anger experience also was uniquely associated with lifetime history of smoking cessation failure. Conclusions: Overall, these population-based data suggest an important relationship between problematic anger and numerous aspects of smoking behavior.
- Subjects
SMOKING; NICOTINE addiction; SMOKING cessation; DRUG control; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; HEALTH outcome assessment
- Publication
Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2013, Vol 15, Issue 1, p297
- ISSN
1462-2203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ntr/nts122