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Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2021

Exercise as a smoking cessation treatment for women: a randomized controlled trial.

Shira Dunsiger, Jessica A Emerson, Michael Ussher, Bess H Marcus, Robert Miranda, Peter M Monti, David M Williams

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. 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 · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Shira DunsigerDepartment of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Box G-S121, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.
Jessica A EmersonDepartment of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Box G-S121, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.
Michael UssherPopulation Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, UK.
Bess H MarcusDepartment of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Box G-S121, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.
Robert MirandaDepartment of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Peter M MontiDepartment of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Box G-S121, Providence, RI, 02912, USA.
David M WilliamsDepartment of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University School of Public Health, Box G-S121, Providence, RI, 02912, USA. david_m_williams@brown.edu.
Brown University · USSt George's, University of London · GB

Funding

Using wearables and EMA to examine the links between cannabis and depressionP20GM130414 · NIGMS · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI Alexander William Sokolovsky · 2019 to 2026
$22.0M
Efficacy of brisk walking as a smoking cessation treatment adjunct among womenR01CA155381 · NCI · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI WILLIAMS, DAVID M · 2011 to 2015
$2.0M
Mentored Patient-Oriented Research on Adolescent Alcohol Misuse and TreatmentK24AA026326 · NIAAA · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI ROBERT MIRANDA · 2018 to 2026
$1.7M
NCI NIH HHS CA155381NCI NIH HHS R01 CA155381NIAAA NIH HHS K24 AA026326NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM130414
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cigarette smoking remains the leading behavioral risk factor for chronic disease and premature mortality. This RCT tested the efficacy of moderate intensity aerobic exercise as an adjunctive smoking cessation treatment among women. Participants (N = 105; age = 42.5, SD = 11.2) received brief smoking cessation counseling and 10 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy and were randomized to 12 weeks of moderate intensity exercise (Exercise; n = 53) or 12 weeks of health education (Control; n = 52). Longitudinal models, with Generalized Estimating Equations, showed no differences between Exercise and Control in cotinine-verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence (Wald = 1.96, p = 0.10) or continuous abstinence (Wald = 1.45, p = 0.23) at 12-weeks (post-treatment) or 6-, 9-, or 12-month follow-up, controlling for differences in baseline nicotine dependence. There was no effect of exercise on smoking cessation. The present study adds to the literature suggesting null effects of exercise as a smoking cessation adjunctive treatment despite promising findings in short-term laboratory based studies.

Indexed as

Smoking CessationTobacco Use DisorderAdultCounselingExerciseFemaleHumansTobacco Use Cessation DevicesExerciseNicotine replacementPhysical activitySmoking cessationWomen

Identifiers

PMID34232456
PMCPMC11619333
OpenAlexW3171644069

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