![]() ![]() Research suggests that cigarette use (particularly nicotine) may indeed modulate affect in the short term. Mood regulatory benefits of smoking may reinforce and maintain smoking behavior, and thus examining how mood may change via smoking is central to understanding the development of problematic patterns of smoking in adolescence. Yet, few longitudinal studies have examined how smoking may actually influence adolescent emotion regulation over time. Such findings support a self-medication model of smoking (e.g., Khantzian, 1997), suggesting that youth may smoke to regulate emotional distress. ![]() Simons & Carey, 2002 Wills, Walker, Mendoza, & Ainette, 2006) as well as the progression to more frequent smoking among youth ( Novak & Clayton, 2001 Weinstein, Mermelstein, Shiffman, & Flay, 2008). Findings from this body of literature suggest that emotional dysregulation is related to the frequency of adolescent substance use (e.g. Emotion regulation refers to a collection of involuntary and effortful processes responsible for guiding and managing affective responses ( Forbes & Dahl, 2005 Thompson, 1994). Increasingly, researchers have focused on the role of emotion regulatory processes in the development and progression of youth smoking. As such, much research has examined the link between emotional distress and smoking to enhance understanding of the etiology of cigarette use. Adolescence is a critical period of vulnerability for both the initiation of smoking as well as for the development of emotional difficulties (Jamner et al., 2003). ![]()
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