Exercise interventions for smoking cessation
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsPublished 8 October 2008Open access
Michael Ussher, Adrian Taylor, Guy Faulkner
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Only one of the 13 trials offered evidence for exercise aiding smoking cessation at a 12-month follow up, and all the other trials were too small to exclude reliably an effect of intervention, or included an exercise intervention which was insufficiently intense to achieve the desired level of exercise.
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Only one of the 13 trials offered evidence for exercise aiding smoking cessation at a 12-month follow up. All the other trials were too small to exclude reliably an effect of intervention, or included an exercise intervention which was insufficiently intense to achieve the desired level of exercise. Trials are needed with larger sample sizes, sufficiently intense interventions, equal contact control conditions, measures of exercise adherence and change in physical activity in both exercise and comparison groups.
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Adding physical activity to N-O-T may enhance cessation success, particularly among boys, and Trends for observed and imputed self-classified and 7-day point prevalence rates indicated that teens in the N- O-T+FIT group had significantly higher cessation rates compared with those in the BIP and BI groups.
Patient Education and CounselingA survey of pregnant smokers’ interest in different types of smoking cessation support
59 Citations2003Michael Ussher, Robert West +1 more
Findings highlight the high level of interest expressed in support with stopping smoking among pregnant smokers and Smoking cessation services may benefit through offering a range of interventions for pregnant smokers, through considering ethnic and occupational status, and through routinely offering individual appointments.
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