Analysis of Factors That Determine Weight Gain during Smoking Cessation Therapy

Maki Komiyama, Hiromichi Wada, Shuichi Ura, Hajime Yamakage, Noriko Satoh-Asahara, Akira Shimatsu, Hiroshi Koyama, Koichi Kono, Yuko Takahashi and Koji Hasegawa

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 8, 1-6

Abstract: Cigarette smokers are generally known to gain weight after quitting smoking, and such weight gain is thought to contribute to the worsening of glucose tolerance. While smoking cessation therapy such as nicotine replacement is useful to minimize post-cessation weight gain, substantial gain occurs even during the therapy. The purpose of the present study was to identify factors associated with weight gain during smoking cessation therapy. We evaluated 186 patients(132 males and 54 females)who visited our outpatient clinic for smoking cessation, and successfully achieved smoking abstinence. We performed gender-adjusted regression analysis for the rate of BMI increase from the beginning of cessation to 3 months after initiation. Furthermore, we performed multivariate analysis to investigate factors that determine the BMI increase after smoking cessation. The mean BMI significantly (p

Date: 2013
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