Summary
PROJECT SUMMARY Cigarette smoking among adults with emotional distress (i.e. anxiety, depression) is a recognized health disparity. Individuals who smoke cigarettes and experience co-occurring emotional distress (compared to those who do not) are more dependent on cigarettes, experience more withdrawal symptoms during quit attempts, and have greater difficulty achieving abstinence. Distress intolerance (DI), or one’s inability to withstand aversive states, is a cognitive-emotional vulnerability implicated in the emotion-smoking comorbidity. Decades of empirical inquiry have focused on translat
