Does physical exercise in addition to a multicomponent smoking cessation program increase abstinence rate and suppress XXXX ? An intervention study.

@entity1 @entity286 @entity1239 @entity1017
Does physical exercise in addition to a multicomponent smoking cessation program increase abstinence rate and suppress @entity1017 ? An intervention study @entity286 use is considered the single most preventable cause of premature morbidity and mortality. Smoking cessation programs aim at two interrelated purposes, to help @entity1 to give up smoking and to prevent relapse. A multicomponent intervention consisting of @entity1239 replacement therapy, health education, behaviour modification therapy and counselling is widely recommended in the health care literature. Smoking cessation studies from a nursing perspective are few. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to compare outcomes of two nurse-managed 1-year group smoking cessation interventions. Intervention 1 (n=34) was provided at a health care centre and consisted of @entity1239 replacement therapy, health education, behavioural modification and individual and group counselling. In intervention 2 (n=33), provided in a health club, physical exercise was added to the intervention provided in 1. @entity1 were self-referred with equal numbers in both interventions. A nonsignificant difference in lapse free abstinence time (LFAT) at 1 year was demonstrated between intervention 1 (20.6%, n=7) and intervention 2 (39.4%, n=13) (p=0.16, odds ratio=2.5). The difference in @entity1017 between intervention groups was also nonsignificant. Within intervention comparison between abstinent @entity1 and smokers showed that abstinent @entity1 had gained significantly more weight than smokers in intervention 2 (p=0.001), but in intervention 1 the difference was nonsignificant (p=0.2). The small sample size in the study detracts from the significance of the findings. However, a trend is observed showing that physical exercise increases the abstinence rate of @entity1 . The conclusion is drawn that a multicomponent smoking cessation program that includes physical exercise might be an effective intervention, but further studies with a larger sample size are needed.
