title: Smoking for weight control and its associations with eating disorder symptomatology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examined interrelationships between cigarette smoking for weight control and eating disorder symptoms in a community sample of adult female smokers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 107 female smokers who completed a battery of questionnaires, including the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q). Key items measured weight-control smoking, including smoking to prevent overeating, smoking to undo the effects of overeating, and smoking to feel less hungry. Smokers who endorsed smoking in an attempt to control weight were compared with those who denied such behaviors on EDE-Q scores and frequency of binge eating and purging.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A substantial proportion of participants reported weight-control smoking. Participants who endorsed weight-control smoking reported elevations on eating disorder symptoms as measured by the EDE-Q. Compensatory smoking was related to the frequency of binge eating.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings have implications for clinicians working with eating disorder patients; for some individuals, cigarette smoking may be used as an attempt to compensate for overeating.
authors: Program for Obesity, Weight, and Eating Research, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. marney.white@yale.edu
authors: Marney A
authors: MA
authors: White
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires