The role of affective urgency and emotion regulation in vaping susceptibility.

Introduction:
This text provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between self-reported negative and positive urgency, emotion regulation, and susceptibility to future e-cigarette use in a sample of current non-users. The study aimed to understand the direct and indirect effects of these impulsivity traits on susceptibility and the role of participants' ability to regulate their emotions.

Key Points:

* The study found that negative urgency significantly predicts greater levels of emotional dysregulation, which in turn significantly predicts greater susceptibility to e-cigarette use.
* Positive urgency was not significantly related to emotion regulation or susceptibility.
* Previous literature has found that urgency relates to cravings or the risk of relapse in individuals who are already dependent on a substance.
* Emotion regulation strategies can take on countless forms, but generally include categories such as situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation.
* The amount of variance of the susceptibility variable explained was low, but the relationship is still clinically significant given the increasing prevalence of vaping among younger individuals and the related potential negative health outcomes.
* The study's sample consisted of primarily young adult college students, which is an important demographic to study due to the time of experimentation and peer-pressure experienced.
* The analysis included participants that were current e-cigarette non-users, but 42 of the sample participants did indicate that they tried e-cigarettes in the past.
* The limitations of the current study precluded the researchers from being able to assess the future vaping behavior predicted by the susceptibility measures.

Main Message:
The main message of the text is that emotion regulation is an important link between impulsivity related to negative emotional states (i.e. negative urgency) and the risk for future e-cigarette use in young adults. The study suggests that public health initiatives targeting prevention of e-cigarette use in youth should focus on teaching emotion regulation skills to individuals high in negative urgency. Future research should focus on extending these results to adolescent populations and should look at the predictive value of these variables in a longitudinal design.

. Reff J, Baschnagel JS. The role of affective urgency and emotion regulation in vaping susceptibility. addictive behaviors reports. 2021;14:100355. doi:10.1016/j.abrep.2021.100355