Background There is a common perception that smoking generally helps people to manage
stress, and may be a form of'self‐medication'in people with mental health conditions …

Research into the comorbidity between emotional psychopathology and cigarette smoking
has often focused upon anxiety and depression's manifest symptoms and syndromes, with …

Abstract Background and Aims Despite decades of research on co‐occurring smoking and
depression, cessation rates remain consistently lower for depressed smokers than for …

Background: Recently, anhedonia has been recognized as an important Research Domain
Criterion (RDoC) by the National Institute of Mental Health. Anhedonia is proposed to play …

Withdrawal is an essential component of classical addiction theory; it is a vital manifestation
of dependence and motivates relapse. However, the traditional conceptualization of …

Introduction Behavioral Activation is a behavioral-based treatment that has been proposed
as suitable for smoking cessation, as it simultaneously addresses reinforcement-related …

Animal research suggests that anhedonia is a tobacco withdrawal symptom, but this topic
has not been addressed definitively in research with humans. This research sought to …

Breathing practices are often incorporated into treatments for tobacco dependence, but there
is little direct research testing the efficacy of breathing practices. This study examined the …

Anhedonia—the reduced capacity to experience pleasure—is a trait implicated in mental
and physical health. Yet, psychometric data on anhedonia measures in adolescents are …

Abstract Introduction Both the Tobacco Control Act in the US and Article 9 of the Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control enable governments to directly address the addictiveness …