Increased desire to smoke during acute stress

Perkins, Kenneth A.; Grobe, James E.

doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1992.tb03121.x

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“…In laboratory studies using stress/negative affect cues, both Perkins and colleagues 28 and Saladin and colleagues 29 reported that women's craving level was more responsive to these cues than men's. However, other laboratory studies using similar mood manipulations have found no gender differences on craving or desire to smoke, [30][31][32] although gender differences in latency to smoke following a negative mood induction have been reported (with women being faster to smoke following a negative mood manipulation; Weinberger and McKee 30 ). Field studies using EMA methods have also contradicted the hypothesis that women's smoking is more responsive to mood, finding either no gender differences at all, or, unexpectedly, that negative affect was more associated with increased smoking among men, rather than women.…”

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Gender and Stimulus Control of Smoking Behavior

Ferguson

Frandsen

Dunbar

et al. 2015

Nicotine & Tobacco Research

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Introduction: Gender differences in smoking behavior have been proposed to account for poorer outcomes among women attempting to quit. Specifically, it has been suggested that women's smoking behavior is less motivated by nicotine-seeking and more driven by environmental cues. To date, however, few real-world studies have examined the hypothesis that women's smoking is under greater stimulus control. Methods: One hundred and ninety four daily smokers (men = 107; women = 87) completed 3 weeks of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) monitoring that provided data on real-world smoking behavior by reporting on situational contexts shown by previous research to influence smoking behavior (including social setting, cigarette availability, alcohol consumption, and mood). Results: Analyses of particular cues found few gender differences; however, men's smoking increased to a greater extent compared with women's when they were with others who were smoking. Idiographic analyses that allow individual subjects to have different directions of linkage to situational cues also were conducted to assess how predictable subjects' smoking was from a range of contextual characteristics. Compared with women, men's smoking was significantly more closely tied to food/alcohol consumption and tended to be more closely tied to social context. No other gender differences were found. Conclusions: EMA analyses suggest that men and women are similarly influenced by cues, including mood. Where there were gender differences, it was men rather than women whose smoking behavior was more influenced by cues. The data contradict the hypothesis that women's smoking is more influenced by cues.

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Gender and Stimulus Control of Smoking Behavior

Ferguson

Frandsen

Dunbar

et al. 2015

Nicotine & Tobacco Research

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“…Specifically, nicotine-withdrawing smokers report increased craving, negative affect symptoms, and somatic symptoms when presented with stressful stimuli (Beckham et al, 1996). Most importantly, low-state anxiety levels are poor predictors of craving and withdrawal in smokers, while highstate anxiety levels are closely linked to these measures (Pomerleau et al, 1990;Perkins and Grobe, 1992; for review see al 'Absi, 2006). These data support the notion that behavioral and physiological signs of stress that show exacerbation with nicotine withdrawal may provide predictive screens for smoking cessation treatments.…”

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Spontaneous Nicotine Withdrawal Potentiates the Effects of Stress in Rats

Jonkman

Risbrough

Geyer

et al. 2007

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Anxiety is a common symptom of nicotine withdrawal in humans, and may predict an inability to abstain from cigarette smoking. It is not clear if self-reports of anxiety during abstinence reflect increased baseline anxiety and/or increased responses to exogenous stressors. We hypothesized that nicotine withdrawal selectively exacerbates reactivity to aversive stimuli in rodents. Here, we investigated the effect of withdrawal from chronic nicotine administration (3.16 mg/kg per day base, delivered via subcutaneous osmotic minipumps) in the light-enhanced startle (LES) test in Wistar rats. In this procedure, baseline startle responding in the dark is compared to startle responding when the chamber is brightly lit. Bright illumination is aversive for rats and potentiates the startle response. Hence, this procedure allows comparisons of withdrawal effects on startle reactivity between relatively neutral and stressful contexts. We found that spontaneous nicotine withdrawal (24 h post-pump removal) did not influence baseline startle responding, but produced a selective increase in LES. Precipitated nicotine withdrawal through injections of one of two nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) antagonists, dihydro-b-erythroidine hydrobromide (DHbE: 0, 1.5, 3, or 6 mg/kg) or mecamylamine (0, 1, 2, or 4 mg/kg), did not influence baseline startle responding or LES. These results suggest that spontaneous nicotine withdrawal selectively potentiates responses to anxiogenic stimuli, but does not by itself produce a strong anxiogenic effect. These findings support the hypothesis that nicotine withdrawal exacerbates stress responding, and indicate LES may be a useful model to examine withdrawal effects on anxiety.

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“…14 The reasons for these ethno-racial and SES disparities are not entirely clear, though greater exposure to sociogeographic stressors (e.g., household, neighborhood, workplace), less access to health-related and financial resources, targeted advertising and promotion by tobacco companies, and the greater likelihood of belonging to a social network that includes other smokers are all considered important contributing factors. 7,[15][16][17][18][19] Although cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic environmental factors influencing the above disparities in smoking behavior have received some scholarly attention, those related to nativity and immigrant legal status have received almost none. This is surprising given that US-born adults are almost twice as likely to smoke compared to foreign-born adult residents of the USA (18.9 and 9.8 %, respectively) according to 2012 NHIS data and that smoking rates among the foreign-born are estimated to rise the longer they reside in the USA.…”

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Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants in Metropolitan Boston

Holmes

Marcelli

2014

J Urban Health

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Tobacco smoking is estimated to be the largest preventable cause of mortality in the USA, but little is known about the relationship between neighborhood social environment and current smoking behavior or how this may differ by population and geography. We investigate how neighborhood social cohesion and disorder are associated with smoking behavior among legal and unauthorized Brazilian migrant adults using data from the 2007 Harvard-UMASS Boston Metropolitan Immigrant Health and Legal Status Survey (BM-IHLSS), a probabilistic household survey of adult Brazilian migrants. We employ logistic regression to estimate associations between neighborhood social cohesion, neighborhood disorder, and current smoking. We find that neighborhood-level social cohesion is associated with lower likelihood of being a current smoker (O.R.=.836; pG.05), and neighborhood disorder, measured as crime experienced in the neighborhood, is not associated with current smoking. Neighborhood population density, age, being male, and residing with someone who smokes are each positively associated with current smoking (pG.10). The health of participants' parents at the age of 35, being married, and individual earnings are associated with a reduction in the probability of being a current smoker (pG.05). Migrant legal status and length of residence in the USA are not associated with current smoking. Our findings suggest that neighborhood social cohesion may be protective against smoking. Alternatively, neighborhood disorder does not appear to be related to current smoking among Brazilian migrants.

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Increased desire to smoke during acute stress

Cited by 145 publications

References 18 publications

Gender and Stimulus Control of Smoking Behavior

Gender and Stimulus Control of Smoking Behavior

Spontaneous Nicotine Withdrawal Potentiates the Effects of Stress in Rats

Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Smoking among Legal and Unauthorized Brazilian Migrants in Metropolitan Boston

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