Trial reportAddictive behaviors2011
Acute effects of moderate intensity aerobic exercise on affective withdrawal symptoms and cravings among women smokers.
Trial report in Addictive behaviors, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00420160 (Does Moderate Intensity Exercise Help Prevent Smoking Relapse Among Women?), which is not on this map. Cited by 34 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Does Moderate Intensity Exercise Help Prevent Smoking Relapse Among Women?
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effect of physical exercise on the emotional and cognitive levels of patients with substance use disorder: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- The effects of exercise with nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation in adults: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Exercise interventions for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Smoking cessation interventions for smokers with current or past depression.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- The acute effects of exercise on cigarette cravings, withdrawal symptoms, affect, and smoking behaviour: systematic review update and meta-analysis.Psychopharmacology · 2012Pooled it
- Acute exercise-induced changes in motivation and behavioral expectation for quitting smoking as predictors of smoking behavior in women.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Trial
- Acute effects of aerobic exercise on negative affect and obsessions and compulsions in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder.Journal of affective disorders · 2019Trial
- Acute Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Affect and Smoking Craving in the Weeks Before and After a Cessation Attempt.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2018Trial
- Physical activity as a coping strategy for smoking cessation in mid-life and older adults.Addictive behaviors · 2014Trial
- Overcoming limitations in previous research on exercise as a smoking cessation treatment: rationale and design of the "Quit for Health" trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2014Trial
- Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Exercise to Health Education for Stimulant Use Disorder: Results From the CTN-0037 STimulant Reduction Intervention Using Dosed Exercise (STRIDE) Study.The Journal of clinical psychiatryTrial
- Eight weeks of exercise training improves fitness measures in methamphetamine-dependent individuals in residential treatment.Journal of addiction medicineTrial
- Exercise-based interventions for smoking cessation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of sport and health science · 2026Review
- A qualitative study to explore perceptions of exercise as a smoking cessation tool among people with HIV who smoke cigarettes.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2026Article
- Environmental enrichment attenuates reinstatement of heroin seeking and reverses heroin-induced upregulation of mesolimbic ghrelin receptors.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2025Article
- Review
- Acute effects of exercise among individuals with schizophrenia who smoke cigarettes.Addictive behaviors · 2023Article
- Article
- Examining the effect of exercise on the relationship between affect and cravings among smokers engaged in cessation treatment.Addictive behaviors · 2022Article
- Exercise Pills for Drug Addiction: Forced Moderate Endurance Exercise Inhibits Methamphetamine-Induced Hyperactivity through the Striatal Glutamatergic Signaling Pathway in Male Sprague Dawley Rats.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
A growing number of laboratory studies have shown that acute bouts of aerobic exercise favorably impact affect and cravings among smokers. However, randomized trials have generally shown exercise to have no favorable effect on smoking cessation or withdrawal symptoms during quit attempts. The purpose of the present study was to explore this apparent contradiction by assessing acute changes in affect and cravings immediately prior to and following each exercise and contact control session during an eight-week smoking cessation trial. Sixty previously low-active, healthy, female smokers were randomized to an eight-week program consisting of brief baseline smoking cessation counseling and the nicotine patch plus either three sessions/week of moderate intensity aerobic exercise or contact control. Findings revealed a favorable impact of exercise on acute changes in positive activated affect (i.e., energy), negative deactivated affect (i.e., tiredness), and cigarette cravings relative to contact control. However, effects dissipated from session to session. Results suggest that aerobic exercise has potential as a smoking cessation treatment, but that it must be engaged in frequently and consistently over time in order to derive benefits. Thus, it is not surprising that previous randomized controlled trials-in which adherence to exercise programs has generally been poor-have been unsuccessful in showing effects of aerobic exercise on smoking cessation outcomes.
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