Smoking - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/smoking/ The Virtual Psychology Classroom Thu, 31 Mar 2022 02:58:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://allpsych.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cropped-AllPsych-Favicon-32x32.png Smoking - AllPsych https://allpsych.com/tag/smoking/ 32 32 Sadness and Smoking https://allpsych.com/sadness-and-smoking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sadness-and-smoking Sat, 04 Jan 2020 17:00:46 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2390 The idea that drugs can be an escape from negative emotions is well known. A recently published study from researchers at Harvard University gives us some more evidence for that idea, but adds a new twist. As it turns out, the emotion of sadness in particular, rather than negative emotions in general, may have an…

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]]> What Do Internet Addiction and Smoking Have in Common? https://allpsych.com/what-do-internet-addiction-and-smoking-have-in-common/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-do-internet-addiction-and-smoking-have-in-common Sat, 27 Apr 2019 02:30:31 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=2039 No, that question isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. But it could be the beginning of a psychology study. In fact, a team of researchers in China recently did take it as the starting point for a study. In attempting to answer the question, they honed in on one factor that has previously been…

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]]> Quitting Smoking Can Set Off a Chain Reaction of Positive Mental Health Changes https://allpsych.com/quitting-smoking-can-set-off-a-chain-reaction-of-positive-mental-health-changes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quitting-smoking-can-set-off-a-chain-reaction-of-positive-mental-health-changes Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:59:39 +0000 https://allpsych.com/?p=1936 There are obvious physical health benefits that come with giving up tobacco, but it turns out there are some mental health benefits too. Researchers have consistently found a link between quitting smoking and positive mental health outcomes. For example, a meta-analysis of 26 studies published in 2014 found that smoking cessation was associated with lower…

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