Differential trajectories of tobacco smoking in people at ultra-high risk for psychosis: Associations with clinical outcomes

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  • Frederike Schirmbeck
  • Els van der Ven
  • Lindy Lou Boyette
  • Philip McGuire
  • Lucia R. Valmaggia
  • Matthew J. Kempton
  • Mark van der Gaag
  • Anita Riecher-Rössler
  • Neus Barrantes-Vidal
  • Barnaby Nelson
  • Marie Odile Krebs
  • Stephan Ruhrmann
  • Gabriele Sachs
  • Bart P.F. Rutten
  • Nordentoft, Merete
  • Lieuwe de Haan
  • Jentien M. Vermeulen
  • EU-GEI High Risk Study Group

Objective: People at ultra-high risk (UHR) for psychosis have a high prevalence of tobacco smoking, and rates are even higher among the subgroup that later develop a psychotic disorder. However, the longitudinal relationship between the course of tobacco smoking and clinical outcomes in UHR subjects is unknown. Methods: We investigated associations between tobacco smoking and clinical outcomes in a prospective study of UHR individuals (n = 324). Latent class mixed model analyses were used to identify trajectories of smoking severity. Mixed effects models were applied to investigate associations between smoking trajectory class and the course of attenuated psychotic symptoms (APS) and affective symptoms, as assessed using the CAARMS. Results: We identified four different classes of smoking trajectory: (i) Persistently High (n = 110), (ii) Decreasing (n = 29), (iii) Persistently Low (n = 165) and (iv) Increasing (n = 20). At two-year follow-up, there had been a greater increase in APS in the Persistently High class than for both the Persistently Low (ES = 9.77, SE = 4.87, p = 0.046) and Decreasing (ES = 18.18, SE = 7.61, p = 0.018) classes. There were no differences between smoking classes in the incidence of psychosis. There was a greater reduction in the severity of emotional disturbance and general symptoms in the Decreasing class than in the High (ES = −10.40, SE = 3.41, p = 0.003; ES = −22.36, SE = 10.07, p = 0.027), Increasing (ES = −11.35, SE = 4.55, p = 0.014; ES = −25.58, SE = 13.17, p = 0.050) and Low (ES = −11.38, SE = 3.29, p = 0.001; ES = −27.55, SE = 9.78, p = 0.005) classes, respectively. Conclusions: These findings suggests that in UHR subjects persistent tobacco smoking is associated with an unfavorable course of psychotic symptoms, whereas decrease in the number of cigarettes smoked is associated with improvement in affective symptoms. Future research into smoking cessation interventions in the early stages of psychoses is required to shine light on the potential of modifying smoking behavior and its relation to clinical outcomes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number869023
JournalFrontiers in Psychiatry
Volume13
ISSN1664-0640
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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Copyright © 2022 Schirmbeck, van der Ven, Boyette, McGuire, Valmaggia, Kempton, van der Gaag, Riecher-Rössler, Barrantes-Vidal, Nelson, Krebs, Ruhrmann, Sachs, Rutten, Nordentoft, Group, de Haan and Vermeulen.

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  • affective symptoms, psychosis, smoking, tobacco, trajectories, ultra-high risk

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