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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 22 Smoking and tobacco cessation |
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| | Smoking and tobacco cessation: Weight gain |
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| | 100 pounds after quitting to equal the health risk of heavy smoking. |
| | Journal of Family Practice, Vol. 34, No. 6, 1992, p. 691 |
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| | Smoking cessation is associated with a net excess weight gain of about 2.4 |
| | kilograms (6 pounds) in middle-aged women. However, this weight gain is minimized |
| | if smoking cessation is accompanied by a moderate increase in the level of physical |
| | activity. |
| | American Journal of Public Health, July 1995, p. 999 |
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| | Smoking cessation interventions that promote dieting to control weight have not been |
| | successful in preventing cessation-related weight gain. |
| | Annals of Behavioral Medicine 17:234, 1995 |
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| | Increased metabolic rate explains at least some of smokers' leaner body weights. |
| | Smoking increases metabolic rate by approximately 2 to 10 percent. However, an |
| | increased metabolic rate doesn't account for the total difference in body weight |
| | between the average smoker and the average non-smoker. Overall, smoking-induced |
| | metabolic rate increases are thought to account for about half of the difference. |
| | Another likely mechanism is that smoking alters the body-weight set point - the weight |
| | toward which a person tends to return despite vigorous attempts to gain or lose |
| | weight. This means that the changes in caloric intake that occur with changes in |
| | smoking status are actually secondary to a change in the regulation of body weight |
| | around a different set point. Experts believe that smoking cessation returns the set |
| | point to normal. |
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