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- Title
Symptoms of depression and survival experience among three samples of smokers trying to quit.
- Authors
Niaura, R; Britt, D M; Shadel, W G; Goldstein, M; Abrams, D; Brown, R
- Abstract
Symptoms of depression have been associated with increased smoking prevalence and failure to quit smoking in several cross-sectional and population-based studies. Few studies, however, have prospectively examined the ability of current symptoms of depression to predict failure to quit smoking in treatment-motivated smokers. Pretreatment depressed mood was assessed by 3 different methods in 3 separate samples, 2 of which comprised smokers receiving combined pharmacological and behavioral treatments and a 3rd in which smokers received self-help materials only. In all studies, time in days from quit day until the 1st cigarette was ascertained to document survival. Survival analyses showed that in all 3 studies survival time was significantly and negatively related to measures of even very low levels of pretreatment depressed mood. Results were replicated across 3 independent samples and were robust and uniformly clear, indicating that low levels of depressive symptoms assessed at baseline predict time to 1st cigarette smoked after attempted quitting.
- Publication
Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 2001, Vol 15, Issue 1, p13
- ISSN
0893-164X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0893-164x.15.1.13