Background Group therapy offers individuals the opportunity to learn behavioural
techniques for smoking cessation, and to provide each other with mutual support. Objectives …

Most individuals engage in multiple unhealthy lifestyle behaviors with the potential for
negative health consequences. Yet most health promotion research has addressed risk …

Delayed reward discounting (DRD) is a behavioral economic index of impulsivity that
reflects the extent to which an individual devalues a reward based on its delay in time (ie …

Background Individuals with current or past depression are often smokers who are more
nicotine dependent, more likely to suffer from negative mood changes after nicotine …

Tobacco dependence is the most common substance use disorder in adults with mental
illness. The prevalence rates for tobacco dependence are two to four times higher in these …

Background Prevalent co-occurring poor diet and physical inactivity convey chronic disease
risk to the population. Large magnitude behavior change can improve behaviors to …

Abstract The Comorbidity Workgroup of the Tobacco Treatment Research Network, within
the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, previously highlighted the need to …

Introduction: This study examined alcohol use and its association with initial smoking lapses
among heavy nondependent drinkers in smoking cessation treatment. Methods: Participants …

Low positive and high negative affect (NA) predict low rates of smoking abstinence among
smokers making a quit attempt. Positive psychotherapy can both increase positive affect …

Objective: Pharmacological treatments that can concomitantly address cigarette smoking
and heavy drinking stand to improve health care delivery for these highly prevalent co …