This transdisciplinary review of the literature addresses the questions, Do stress and
negative affect (NA) promote smoking? and Does smoking genuinely relieve stress and NA …

Smoking is highly prevalent across most anxiety disorders. Tobacco use increases risk for
the later development of certain anxiety disorders, and smokers with anxiety disorders have …

Background Smoking has been associated with a range of mental disorders including
schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and depression. People with mental illness have high rates …

The present study tested the hypothesis that limited ability to tolerate physical and
psychological distress is associated with early relapse from smoking cessation. Specifically …

We have developed a novel human laboratory model to examine two primary aspects of
stress-precipitated tobacco relapse:(1) Does stress reduce the ability to resist the first …

Hispanic youth are at risk for experiencing depressive symptoms and smoking cigarettes,
and risk for depressive symptoms and cigarette use increase as Hispanic youth acculturate …

For at least a few centuries, if not millennia, psychological stress has been popularly
believed to contribute to heart disease. Does psychological stress really contribute to heart …

This study addressed the hypothesis that exaggerated mood and cortisol changes during
the first 24h of smoking abstinence are associated with early relapse. Salivary cortisol levels …

Chronic smoking may alter physiological systems involved in the stress response. This study
was designed to examine the effects of ad libitum smoking and abstinence on adrenocortical …

Conditions which promote smoking urges, or desire to smoke, are believed to be important
in maintaining smoking behaviour, yet little controlled research has examined acute …