The Getting Physical on Cigarettes trial: Rationale and methods
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Getting Physical on Cigarettes: the rationale
Cross-sectional research has shown that smoking and exercise are not compatible behaviours. The addition of exercise to traditional smoking cessation therapy (i.e., cognitive–behaviour therapy [CBT] and nicotine replacement therapy [NRT]) has been shown to aid smoking cessation in women and ameliorate some of the negative consequence of smoking withdrawal (Taylor et al., 2007, Ussher et al., 2008). Furthermore, exercise has been shown to have a positive effect on other factors that may protect
Participants
420 females, aged between 18 and 65 years, who engage in two or less 30-min sessions of moderate or vigorous intensity exercise in the previous six months, smoke in excess of 10 cigarettes per day for the past two years, and wish to achieve smoking abstinence will participate in the Getting Physical on Cigarettes trial. Exclusion criteria will include women: (a) have contraindications to regular exercise (e.g., disability, unstable angina), (b) contraindications to using NRT, (c) are on
Summary
The Getting Physical on Cigarettes project aims to be the first clinical trial to appropriately evaluate the effectiveness of home-based lifestyle exercise maintenance program in assisting women to prevent smoking relapse and maintain exercise and weight following the termination of a structured exercise and NRT smoking cessation intervention (Faulkner et al., 2006). The improvement and/or maintenance of body composition, vascular health, lung function, physical fitness and psychological
Author note
Mary E. Jung, Lyndsay Fitzgeorge, and Harry Prapavessis, School of Kinesiology, The University of Western Ontario. Guy Faulkner, Faculty of Physical Education and Health, The University of Toronto. Ralph Maddison, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland.
This 3-year, Getting Physical on Cigarettes, project is supported by the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute (P.I. Dr. Harry Prapavessis; Grant # 019876).
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