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- Title
Clinical significance of tobacco withdrawal.
- Authors
Hughes, John R
- Abstract
To estimate the clinical significance of tobacco withdrawal, this review located six experimental studies that reported Profile of Mood States (POMS) scores after stopping smoking in untreated smokers and compared them with scores in psychiatric outpatients. The pre-cessation POMS Total Mood Disturbance scores (median = 13.6) were similar to adult norms (mean, M = 17.8) but during abstinence (M = 5 days), the scores had increased (M = 27.4) to be similar to that of psychiatric outpatient norms (M = 25.1). These results and others suggest stopping smoking causes clinically significant distress.
- Publication
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2006, Vol 8, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
1462-2203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/14622200500494856