. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2021 Feb;35(1):52–61. doi: 10.1037/adb0000595

Table 2.

Inter-correlations of the independent, mediator, and dependent variables

Variable	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Pain (1)	-	-	-	-	-	-
I feel depressed.(2)	0.41^*	-	-	-	-	-
I feel stressed. (3)	0.35^*	0.78^*	-	-	-	-
I feel anxious (4)	0.32^*	0.82^*	0.82^*	-	-	-
I am confident that smoking would improve my mood. (5)	0.15	0.27^*	0.45^*	0.23^*	-	-
Smoking abstinence^a (6)	0.25^*	−0.03	0.06	0.01	0.28^*	-

Smoking status was measured four weeks after quit day and confirmed via CO (≤ 6 ppm). Participants who met abstinence criteria were coded as abstinent (abstinent = 0) and participants who did not meet these criteria were coded as relapsed (relapsed = 1).

p ≤.05