Weight gain, related concerns, and treatment outcomes among adolescent smokers enrolled in cessation treatment.
We examined associations of weight concerns and weight gain with adolescent tobacco cessation treatment and whether these effects differed by gender or ethnoracial group. Participants were 115 urban adolescents recruited for a randomized clinical trial of nicotine replacement therapy. Baseline weight gain concerns were assessed using the Eating Disorders module from the Diagnostic Interview for the Child and Adolescent (DICA-IV). The average weight gain during the trial was 0.59 +/- 2.85 kg among the 43.5% of participants who completed the treatment study. As indicated by the DICA, baseline weight gain concerns were not associated with weight gain during treatment, study completion, or abstinence from smoking at 3-month posttreatment follow-up; these results did not vary by gender or ethnoracial group. Adolescents who quit smoking gained no more weight during the trial than those who smoked.
Department of Health and Human Resources, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse-Intramural Research Program, Biomedical Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Elissa
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Thorner-Bantug
Maria
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Jaszyna-Gasior
Jennifer R
JR
Schroeder
Charles C
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Collins
Eric T
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Moolchan
D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American; D015142:Baltimore; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014505:Urban Population; D015430:Weight Gain / Q000208:ethnology / Q000502:physiology