Fit & quit: An efficacy trial of two behavioral post-cessation weight gain interventions

While smoking cessation leads to significant improvements in both mortality and morbidity, post-cessation weight gain partially attenuates this benefit. Even though post-cessation weight gain is small (4.7  kg on average), it is a stated reason to delay cessation attempts and is associated with smoking relapse. Fit& Quit is a randomized, controlled efficacy trial that aims to examine the ability of a weight stability intervention and a weight loss intervention to reduce post-cessation weight gain.

Source: Contemporary Clinical Trials - November 13, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Francisco I. Salgado Garc ía, Karen J. Derefinko, Zoran Bursac, Robert C. Klesges, Jon O. Ebbert, Catherine R. Womack, Rebecca A. Krukowski Source Type: research