The effect of negative emotions on smoking craving: the chain-mediating role of self-control and self-exempting beliefs

This study demonstrates that self-control and self-exempting beliefs partially mediate the relationship between smokers' negative emotional states and their cravings to smoke. It is important to pay timely attention to the emotional changes of smokers, enhance their ability to maintain self-control in negative emotional states, and mitigate smoking-related self-exempting beliefs to help smokers better cope with smoking cravings caused by emotional changes, prevent relapse, and achieve long-term smoking cessation goals.