Abstract:introduction: To examine the extent to which cigarette smoking in adolescence is associated with maladaptive versus adaptive coping behaviors in adulthood.
“…Important causal processes might also occur at the behavioral level. For instance, an over-reliance on smoking to cope with depressive symptoms may prevent acquisition of more effective coping responses to counteract mood disturbance (24). Because we examined contemporaneous associations between dependence and depression symptoms, the current findings can neither implicate causal processes per se nor specify the direction of any such effect.…”
Introduction
Despite the highly replicated relationship between depression and nicotine dependence, little is known about this association across both time and levels of lifetime smoking exposure. In the present study, we evaluate if symptoms of depression are associated with emerging nicotine dependence after accounting for smoking exposure and whether this relationship varies from adolescence to young adulthood and across increasing levels of smoking.
Patients and Methods
The sample was drawn from the Social and Emotional Contexts of Adolescent Smoking Patterns Study which measured smoking, nicotine dependence and depression over 6 assessment waves spanning 6 years. Analyses were based on repeated assessment of 941 participants reporting any smoking 30 days prior to individual assessment waves. Mixed-effects regression models were estimated to examine potential time and smoking exposure varying effects in the association between depression and nicotine dependence.
Results
Inter-individual differences in mean levels of depression and within subject changes in depression from adolescence to young adulthood were each significantly associated with nicotine dependence symptoms over and above lifetime smoking exposure. This association was consistent across both time and increasing levels of lifetime smoking.
Discussion
Depression is a consistent risk factor for nicotine dependence over and above exposure to cigarettes and this association can be demonstrated from the earliest experiences with smoking in adolescents through the establishment of more regular smoking patterns across the transition to young adulthood.
Conclusion
Depression remains a prominent risk factor for nicotine dependence, and youth with depression symptoms represent an important subgroup in need of targeted smoking intervention.
“…Important causal processes might also occur at the behavioral level. For instance, an over-reliance on smoking to cope with depressive symptoms may prevent acquisition of more effective coping responses to counteract mood disturbance (24). Because we examined contemporaneous associations between dependence and depression symptoms, the current findings can neither implicate causal processes per se nor specify the direction of any such effect.…”
Introduction
Despite the highly replicated relationship between depression and nicotine dependence, little is known about this association across both time and levels of lifetime smoking exposure. In the present study, we evaluate if symptoms of depression are associated with emerging nicotine dependence after accounting for smoking exposure and whether this relationship varies from adolescence to young adulthood and across increasing levels of smoking.
Patients and Methods
The sample was drawn from the Social and Emotional Contexts of Adolescent Smoking Patterns Study which measured smoking, nicotine dependence and depression over 6 assessment waves spanning 6 years. Analyses were based on repeated assessment of 941 participants reporting any smoking 30 days prior to individual assessment waves. Mixed-effects regression models were estimated to examine potential time and smoking exposure varying effects in the association between depression and nicotine dependence.
Results
Inter-individual differences in mean levels of depression and within subject changes in depression from adolescence to young adulthood were each significantly associated with nicotine dependence symptoms over and above lifetime smoking exposure. This association was consistent across both time and increasing levels of lifetime smoking.
Discussion
Depression is a consistent risk factor for nicotine dependence over and above exposure to cigarettes and this association can be demonstrated from the earliest experiences with smoking in adolescents through the establishment of more regular smoking patterns across the transition to young adulthood.
Conclusion
Depression remains a prominent risk factor for nicotine dependence, and youth with depression symptoms represent an important subgroup in need of targeted smoking intervention.
“…Note: Estimated AUD risk from logistic regression analysis including main effect terms and interaction term, adjusted for age, education, rank, previous deployments, childhood adversities, prior anxiety disorders, prior nicotine dependence and the number of lifetime AUD symptoms reported at baseline. and mental disorders, particularly of mood disorders (Chaiton, Cohen, O'Loughlin, & Rehm, 2009;McGee, Williams, Nada-Raja, & Olsson, 2013). Probably more remarkable was the result that the risk for ND onset in individuals with a PMD decreased with an increasing difficult living and working environment which appears to be counterintuitive.…”
“…Previous analysis of data from this cohort indicated the prevalence of daily smoking was 35% at age 21 years, with few smokers having quit before age 21 (McGee et al, 2013). Therefore, smoking at age 21 years was identified as the baseline for examining quitting.…”
introduction:People who quit smoking tend to gain more weight over time than those who continue to smoke. Previous research using clinical samples of smokers suggests that quitters typically experience a weight gain of approximately 5 kg in the year following smoking cessation, but these studies may overestimate the extent of weight gain in the general population. The existing population-based research in this area has some methodological limitations.
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