Hostility and Cigarette Use: A Comparison Between Smokers and Nonsmokers in a Matched Sample of Adolescents

Bernstein, Michael H.; Colby, Suzanne M.; Bidwell, L. Cinnamon; Kahler, Christopher W.; Leventhal, Adam M.

doi:10.1093/ntr/ntu033

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“…In the clinics, impaired social cognition was reported in patients with a drinking history (Valmas et al, 2014). Tobacco smokers and abstinent marijuana smokers appear more prone to display aggressive behavior (Bernstein et al, 2014; Budney et al, 2001), which may compromise social relationships. In cocaine abstinent animals, we found no modification of direct social interaction, but a moderately decreased interest for the social stimulus in the three-chamber test.…”

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Differential behavioral and molecular alterations upon protracted abstinence from cocaine versus morphine, nicotine, THC and alcohol

2016

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Unified theories of addiction are challenged by differing drug-seeking behaviors and neurobiological adaptations across drug classes, particularly for narcotics and psychostimulants. We previously showed that protracted abstinence to opiates leads to despair behavior and social withdrawal in mice, and we identified a transcriptional signature in the extended amygdala that was also present in animals abstinent from nicotine, i9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and alcohol. Here we examined whether protracted abstinence to these 4 drugs would also share common behavioral features, and eventually differ from abstinence to the prototypic psychostimulant cocaine. We found similar reduced social recognition, increased motor stereotypies, and increased anxiety with relevant c-fos response alterations in morphine, nicotine, THC and alcohol abstinent mice. Protracted abstinence to cocaine, however, led to strikingly distinct, mostly opposing adaptations at all levels, including behavioral responses, neuronal activation and gene expression. Together, these data further document the existence of common hallmarks for protracted abstinence to opiates, nicotine, THC and alcohol that develop within motivation/emotion brain circuits. In our model however, these do not apply to cocaine, supporting the notion of unique mechanisms in psychostimulant abuse.

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Differential behavioral and molecular alterations upon protracted abstinence from cocaine versus morphine, nicotine, THC and alcohol

2016

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“…Hostility and low social support are associated with worse lifestyle behaviors, including smoking, poor diet, obesity, and alcoholism (Bernstein et al 2014;Stickley et al 2014). It has been reported that hostile individuals may also manifest diminished vagal modulation of heart function and increased platelet reactivity, while low social support is associated with activation of the autonomic nervous system (Rozanskiet al 1999).…”

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Matrix metalloproteinases and psychosocial factors in acute coronary syndrome patients

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“…Recent findings suggest potential influences for adolescents’ psychosocial factors in relation to their alcohol or cigarette use. Hostility [ 11 ] and emotional distress [ 12 ] were identified characteristics of school-aged (between 10 and 19) smokers, while emotional distress preceded or was concurrent with the patterns of alcohol and tobacco use among adolescents, aged between 15 and 18 [ 13 ]. Social isolation was another identified characteristic linking to adolescent cigarette use [ 14 ].…”

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What could keep young people away from alcohol and cigarettes? Findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

2017

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BackgroundAdolescents are vulnerable to risky behaviours that are likely to co-occur. We examined whether happiness, awareness of alcohol- or smoking-related harm or the size of friendship networks would be longitudinally associated with young people’s risky behaviours.MethodsWe used available cases (N=1,729) from adolescents aged between 10 and 15 who participated in waves 2 and 3 of the UK Longitudinal Household Study that has annually collected population representative data from 40,000 UK households. The outcome variable was patterns of cigarette and alcohol use among adolescents (1= persistent non-use; 2= ex-use; 3= initiation; 4= persistent use) that we derived by tabulating current alcohol or cigarette use at waves 2 and 3. Explanatory variables were scores on participants’ perception of overall happiness, awareness of harm due to alcohol and cigarette use, and supportive friendship network size, collected at wave 2. Covariates were participants’ sex, age, base level of self-reported health status, reported religious affiliation, and household social position. All estimates were corrected for the complex survey design and non-response. Multinomial logistic regression was used to test assumed associations by taking persistent cigarette and alcohol use as the reference category.ResultsFindings showed higher happiness scores were longitudinally associated with adolescents’ persistent non-use (RRR=1.06, 95% CI=1.01-1.13). Awareness of alcohol or cigarette use-related harm was longitudinally associated with persistent non-use (RRR=1.24, 95% CI 1.15-1.35) as well as initiation of alcohol or cigarette use (RRR=1.21, 95% CI=1.11-1.32).ConclusionJoint interventions to promote happiness and harm awareness could help young adolescents from engaging with drinking alcohol or smoking cigarettes.

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Hostility and Cigarette Use: A Comparison Between Smokers and Nonsmokers in a Matched Sample of Adolescents

Abstract: We examined the association between hostility-a personality trait reflective of negativity and cynicism toward others-and smoking in adolescents by measuring (a) several subcomponents of hostility, and (b) facial emotion processing ability, which has been previously linked to hostility.

Cited by 16 publications

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Differential behavioral and molecular alterations upon protracted abstinence from cocaine versus morphine, nicotine, THC and alcohol

Differential behavioral and molecular alterations upon protracted abstinence from cocaine versus morphine, nicotine, THC and alcohol

Matrix metalloproteinases and psychosocial factors in acute coronary syndrome patients

What could keep young people away from alcohol and cigarettes? Findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

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