Abstract
Abstract
This study was designed to investigate changes of symptoms over time regarding withdrawal and urge to smoke following a short period of smoking abstinence that lasted for 3 hours in young smoker.
All Participants (N=20) were not allowed to smoke for 3 hours, and they were requested to evaluate their own symptoms of withdrawal and urge once an hour for 3 hours during the abstinence period, using the Japa-nese version of MPSS. Thus there were four times of MPSS evaluations for one participant during the absti-nence, those which were analyzed as dependent variables.
The two-way mixed analysis of variance showed that “irritability”, “restlessness”, “poor concentration” and “urge to smoke (time spent for, and strength of urges)” were increased significantly as time passed. There were also significant positive correlations among items as “irritability”, “restlessness”, “poor concentration” and “time spent with urges” in terms of changes from 0 to 3 hours following the smoking abstinence.
These results indicate that “irritability”, “restlessness”, “poor concentration” and “urge to smoke” were induced more rapidly than “depression” and “hunger” following the smoking abstinence.
