Effect of Night Smoking, Sleep Disturbance, and Their Co-Occurrence on Smoking Outcomes

摘要: Recent evidence suggests that smoking during the night is an indicator of nicotine dependence and predicts cessation failure. Night smokers are likely to experience disturbance their sleep cycle when they wake smoke, but we not aware prevalence smokers' self-reported disturbance. Because also failure, examined how pre-cessation risk factors disturbance, co-occurrence, predict failure in a 6-week double-blind randomized controlled trial examining whether naltrexone augments efficacy patch (O'Malley et al., 2006). Smokers (N = 385) completed Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (Buysse, Reynolds, Monk, Berman, & Kupfer, 1989) single item waking at smoke pre-cessation. Smoking status was determined weeks 1, 6, 24 48 after quitting. The 2 main findings were: (1) reported significantly greater than non-night smokers; (2) with co-occurring experienced for neither factor. Results suggest individuals who both report clinically-significant represent high-risk group smokers. Future treatment might incorporate strategies related managing these habits physiological on order bolster outcomes.