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2025, Volume 12, Issue 1: 33-43. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2025003
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Boredom and affective temperaments as factors hindering smoking cessation: An exploration within an Italian sample

  • 1.
    Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
  • 2.
    Department “Scienze della Salute”, University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
  • Received: 06 May 2024 Revised: 03 July 2024 Accepted: 24 September 2024 Published: 03 January 2025

  • Background 

    Smoking cessation presents challenges influenced by neurological adaptations and psychological factors, potentially exacerbated by susceptibility to boredom and affective temperaments.

    Methods 

    This study enrolled 409 participants via an online survey distributed among the Italian population through mailing lists, social networks, and messaging apps. Specific questions assessed cigarette smoking, while the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego (TEMPS-A) and Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) explored affective temperaments and susceptibility to boredom, respectively.

    Results 

    Results indicated smokers exhibited higher cyclothymic temperament scores compared to no-smokers and ex-smokers, suggesting a connection between this temperament and smoking behavior. Furthermore, the analysis demonstrated variable influences of specific temperaments on boredom proneness.

    Conclusions 

    These findings emphasize the significance of incorporating affective temperaments and boredom proneness into smoking cessation interventions. Understanding the interplay between affective temperaments and boredom proneness can guide the development of innovative and personalized cessation strategies. Further research is warranted to delve deeper into these relationships and their implications for intervention approaches.

    Citation: Fiammetta Iannuzzo, Michele La Versa, Fabrizio Turiaco, Gianluca Pandolfo, Carmela Mento, Maria Rosaria Anna Muscatello, Antonio Bruno, Clara Lombardo. Boredom and affective temperaments as factors hindering smoking cessation: An exploration within an Italian sample[J]. AIMS Public Health, 2025, 12(1): 33-43. doi: 10.3934/publichealth.2025003

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  • Background 

    Smoking cessation presents challenges influenced by neurological adaptations and psychological factors, potentially exacerbated by susceptibility to boredom and affective temperaments.

    Methods 

    This study enrolled 409 participants via an online survey distributed among the Italian population through mailing lists, social networks, and messaging apps. Specific questions assessed cigarette smoking, while the Temperament Evaluation of Memphis, Pisa, Paris, and San Diego (TEMPS-A) and Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) explored affective temperaments and susceptibility to boredom, respectively.

    Results 

    Results indicated smokers exhibited higher cyclothymic temperament scores compared to no-smokers and ex-smokers, suggesting a connection between this temperament and smoking behavior. Furthermore, the analysis demonstrated variable influences of specific temperaments on boredom proneness.

    Conclusions 

    These findings emphasize the significance of incorporating affective temperaments and boredom proneness into smoking cessation interventions. Understanding the interplay between affective temperaments and boredom proneness can guide the development of innovative and personalized cessation strategies. Further research is warranted to delve deeper into these relationships and their implications for intervention approaches.



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    Acknowledgments


    This study is not funded by any agency and is being conducted by the authors independently.

    Authors' contribution


    Fiammetta Iannuzzo: conceptualisation, methodology, writing-original draft, and writing-review and editing. Michele La Versa: investigation, resources, and writing-original draft. Fabrizio Turiaco: data curation, formal analysis, investigation, and resources. Gianluca Pandolfo: data curation, formal analysis, investigation, and resources. Carmela Mento: data curation, formal analysis, and validation. Maria Rosaria Anna Muscatello: investigation, resources and supervision. Antonio Bruno: methodology, software, supervision and visualization. Clara Lombardo: conceptualisation, methodology, supervision, and writing-review and editing.

    Conflict of interest


    Fiammetta Iannuzzo and Antonio Bruno are the guest editors for special issue of AIMS Public Health and was not involved in the editorial review or the decision to publish this article. All authors declare that there are no competing interests.

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