Trial reportBMC public health2012
Changes in body weight and food choice in those attempting smoking cessation: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
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- Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Eating the elephant whole or in slices: views of participants in a smoking cessation intervention trial on multiple behaviour changes as sequential or concurrent tasks.BMC public health · 2012Trial
- The inverse relation between changes in body weight and serum phosphate expresses weight loss after lifestyle intervention in non-smokers and smokers, but not in subjects who quit smoking.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Diet quality as assessed by the healthy eating index-2020 among different smoking status: an analysis of national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES) data from 2005 to 2018.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Tobacco cessation in patients with multiple chronic conditions: nutritional strategies as an additional tool in treatment.Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy · 2024Article
- Effects of Abstinence Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancies of Tobacco Smoking on the Desire to Quit Among Saudi Women: A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis.Tobacco use insights · 2022Article
- An empirical investigation of the impact of smoking on body weight using an endogenous treatment effects model approach: the role of food consumption patterns.Nutrition journal · 2018Article
- Quality of life comparison between smokers and non-smokers with chronic pancreatitis.Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] · 2018Article
- Military and veteran health behavior research and practice: challenges and opportunities.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- The effect of tobacco cessation on weight gain, obesity, and diabetes risk.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2016Review
- Metabolic effects of smoking cessation.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2016Review
- Using realist evaluation to open the black box of knowledge translation: a state-of-the-art review.Implementation science : IS · 2014Review
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Abstract
backgroundFear of weight gain is a barrier to smoking cessation and significant cause of relapse for many people. The provision of nutritional advice as part of a smoking cessation programme may assist some in smoking cessation and perhaps limit weight gain. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a structured programme of dietary advice on weight change and food choice, in adults attempting smoking cessation.
methodsCluster randomised controlled design. Classes randomised to intervention commenced a 24-week intervention, focussed on improving food choice and minimising weight gain. Classes randomised to control received "usual care".
resultsTwenty-seven classes in Greater Glasgow were randomised between January and August 2008. Analysis, including those who continued to smoke, showed that actual weight gain and percentage weight gain was similar in both groups. Examination of data for those successful at giving up smoking showed greater mean weight gain in intervention subjects (3.9 (SD 3.1) vs. 2.7 (SD 3.7) kg). Between group differences were not significant (p = 0.23, 95% CI -0.9 to 3.5). In comparison to baseline improved consumption of fruit and vegetables and breakfast cereal were reported in the intervention group. A higher percentage of control participants continued smoking (74% vs. 66%).
conclusionsThe intervention was not successful at minimising weight gain in comparison to control but was successful in facilitating some sustained improvements in the dietary habits of intervention participants. Improved quit rates in the intervention group suggest that continued contact with advisors may have reduced anxieties regarding weight gain and encouraged cessation despite weight gain. Research should continue in this area as evidence suggests that the negative effects of obesity could outweigh the health benefits achieved through reductions in smoking prevalence.
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