Abstract

SILVEIRA, Kallinca Merillen et al. Relationship between biological, psychological and behavioral addiction in smoking cessation. Contextos Clínic [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.2, pp. 540-562. ISSN 1983-3482.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4013/ctc.2021.142.08.

The Smoking Cessation Program (SCP) aims at abstinence from smoking through intervention focusing on biological, psychological and behavioral addiction. This study investigated the relationship between addiction types, pattern of consumption, level of craving, and motivation for abstinence among smokers enrolled in an SCP. A total of 179 smokers (56.7% women) were enrolled in the 11 groups of the SCP. The participants presented an age mean of 41 years and smoked a mean of 19 cigarettes. The average smoking time of the participants is 25 years. All of them answered specific instruments to measure biological, psychological and behavioral addiction, level of cleft and motivation to quit smoking and participated in an individual interview in which they provided the biological measurement of the level of carbon monoxide. The results showed a positive correlation among several variables, emphasizing the three types of addiction among themselves and the number of cigarettes smoked per day, time of consumption and craving; and between two measures of biological addiction (self-reported and biological). At the beginning of smoking behavior, psychological addiction is more intense, and the others become more intense over time and intensity of consumption.

Keywords : smoking; addiction; treatment.

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