Randomized controlled trial of behavioral activation smoking cessation treatment for smokers with elevated depressive symptoms.

Objective: Depressive symptoms are associated with poor smoking cessation outcomes, and there remains continued interest in behavioral interventions that simultaneously target smoking and depressive symptomatology. In this pilot study, we examined whether a behavioral activation treatment for smoking (BATS) can enhance cessation outcomes.

Method: A sample of 68 adult smokers with mildly elevated depressive symptoms (M = 43.

An examination of the fear of bodily sensations and body hypervigilance as predictors of emotion regulation difficulties among individuals with a recent history of uncued panic attacks.

Recent studies have demonstrated that individuals with a history of uncued panic attacks exhibit heightened difficulties in emotion regulation, including experiential avoidance, emotional non-acceptance, and lack of emotional clarity. The purpose of this study was to extend these findings by examining whether the fear of bodily sensations predicted the presence of experiential avoidance and emotional non-acceptance and whether body hypervigilance predicted a lack of emotional clarity in a sample of 91 individuals with a recent history (past year) of uncued panic attacks. Findings indicated that the fear of bodily sensations predicts experiential avoidance, emotional non-acceptance, and lack of emotional clarity above and beyond other panic-relevant variables.