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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-6-12
pubmed:abstractText
Part of the hardening hypothesis to explain the persistence of smoking-despite powerful antismoking forces-links smoking with psychopathology, especially depression. It has been proposed that the association between depression and smoking has emerged in more recent cohorts as smoking rates declined, disproportionately leaving among current smokers those who found it more difficult to quit because of their psychopathology. We examined the association of regular smoking and depression in a cohort who began smoking prior to the decline in smoking rates in the United States and assessed a corollary hypothesis that smokers with depression were more likely to persist in smoking than were those without depression. Data were from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study of a random sample of high school graduates from the class of 1957. In the 1992 follow-up, a subset of these 53-54-year-olds were assessed for lifetime and current depression and smoking (n = 4,858). A modest association between regular smoking and depression was found (OR = 1.4, 95% CI = 1.2-1.6); persistence of smoking (current smoking among ever regular smokers) was unrelated to single-episode or recurrent depression (OR = 1.1, 95% CI = 0.8-1.5). The results do not support the proposition that the association between smoking and depression emerged when smoking rates declined, or that self-medication of depression through smoking is a likely mechanism for the persistence of smoking.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1462-2203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
257-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Anxiety, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Attitude to Health, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Causality, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Comorbidity, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Confidence Intervals, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Depression, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Health Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Health Surveys, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Logistic Models, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Odds Ratio, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Questionnaires, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Smoking, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Smoking Cessation, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Statistics, Nonparametric, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Tobacco Use Disorder, pubmed-meshheading:16766418-Wisconsin
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Is the association of smoking and depression a recent phenomenon?
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Health, Social and Economic Research, Research Triangle Institute International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194, USA. ejohnson@rti.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural