title: The role of anxiety sensitivity in the relation between trait worry and smoking behavior.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Smoking and anxiety disorders frequently co-occur. Trait worry is a core symptom of anxiety disorders. While research suggests worry processes may be important to certain smoking behaviors, the mechanisms explicating these relations remain unknown.
  
  
  METHODS
  The current study examined anxiety sensitivity (AS) as a potential mediator for the relation between trait worry and number of years being a daily smoker, latency to first cigarette of the day, smoking rate, heaviness of smoking, and nicotine dependence among treatment-seeking daily smokers (N = 376; 47% female; M age = 37.76, SD = 13.46).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Consistent with prediction, AS significantly mediated the relations between trait worry and the studied smoking variables.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present findings suggest it may be useful to clinically address AS among worry-prone, treatment-seeking daily smokers in order to address smoking behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX;
authors.forename: Hyaneyoung
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Olvera
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX; jafar.bakhshaie@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Jafar
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bakhshaie
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX;
authors.forename: Lorra
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Garey
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX;
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jardin
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL;
authors.forename: Norman B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Zvolensky
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking / Q000523:psychology*; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D013997:Time Factors; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult