Lower self-efficacy and greater depressive symptoms predict greater failure to recover from a single lapse cigarette.

These findings provide preliminary evidence that a single lapse cigarette after quitting plays a causal role in subsequent smoking and suggest that individuals with lower postquit ASE and greater depressive symptoms are less likely to recover from a lapse. Future research should investigate factors associated with lapse recovery and failure so that effective lapse-responsive strategies can be developed. Laboratory models provide an efficient and controlled method to examine such processes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).