title: Mood disturbance fails to resolve across 31 days of cigarette abstinence in women.
abstract: Smoking abstinence responses were characterized in 96 female smokers. Participants completed subjective state measures twice per week for 5 weeks and were then randomly assigned to a group required to abstain for 31 days or a control group that continued to smoke. Financial incentives for biochemically verified abstinence resulted in an 81% completion rate. Abstinence-related increases in depression, tension, anger, irritability, and appetite showed little tendency to return to prequit levels and remained significantly elevated above smoke-group levels. In contrast to psychological components of anxiety, physical components decreased to smoke group levels by the 2nd week of abstinence. Trait depression and neuroticism predicted larger increased abstinence-associated negative affect. The Big Five personality dimensions predicted variance not associated with depressive traits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 62901-6502, USA. dgilbert@siu.edu
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Gilbert
authors.forename: F Joseph
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: McClernon
authors.forename: Norka E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Rabinovich
authors.forename: Louisette C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Plath
authors.forename: Carmen L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Masson
authors.forename: Allison E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: Kaye F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Sly
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors