These results suggest that cognitive testing with the CBB in alternate settings can provide valid cognitive data comparable to data obtained during individually supervised testing.

Smoking and drinking frequently co-occur. For example, alcohol use is associated with lapses during quit attempts. However, little is known regarding psychological factors explaining drinking among smokers. Anxiety sensitivity is a risk factor associated with hazardous drinking and drinking to cope and/or conform, although little is known about mechanisms underlying such associations. One potential explanatory factor is emotion dysregulation. The current study examined emotion dysregulation as an explanatory factor underlying anxiety sensitivity and five alcohol-related outcomes: hazardous drinking, alcohol consumption, alcohol problems coping-oriented drinking and drinking to conform. Participants for this study were 467 treatment-seeking adult daily smokers (48.2% female; Mage=36.7 years, SD = 13.6) who reported smoking an average of 16.5 cigarettes per day. Results indicated significant indirect effects of anxiety sensitivity via emotion dysregulation in relation to hazardous drinking, alcohol consumption, alcohol problems, drinking to cope, and drinking to conform. Effects were medium sized. Alternative models testing indirect effects of emotion dysregulation via anxiety sensitivity in relation to outcomes and anxiety sensitivity via outcomes in relation to emotion dysregulation were non-significant with small effect sizes. Follow-up tests examined effects of anxiety sensitivity via specific emotion dysregulation sub-factors. Thus, among treatment-seeking smokers, emotion dysregulation may explain the associations of anxiety sensitivity with alcohol-related outcomes. This pattern of findings highlights the potential importance of interventions targeting emotion dysregulation among hazardous drinking smokers.