To investigate how anxiety sensitivity influences smoking motives through false safety behaviors in Black adults.
Examined the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and smoking motives.
Analyzed the mediating role of false safety behaviors.
Included Black adults who smoke in the sample.
Elevated anxiety sensitivity was significantly linked to increased smoking motives (p<.001).
False safety behaviors served as a mediating factor between anxiety sensitivity and smoking motives.
Interventions targeting false safety behaviors could enhance smoking cessation efforts.
Abstract
's < .001-.02). The current results highlight the importance of FSB utilization as a targetable mechanism for smoking cessation treatments for Black adults who smoke and who experience elevated AS.