title: Exercise to Enhance Smoking Cessation: the Getting Physical on Cigarette Randomized Control Trial.
abstract: Exercise has been proposed as a useful smoking cessation aid.
  
  
  
  The purpose of the present study is to determine the effect of an exercise-aided smoking cessation intervention program, with built-in maintenance components, on post-intervention 14-, 26- and 56-week cessation rates.
  
  
  
  Female cigarette smokers (n = 413) participating in a supervised exercise and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) smoking cessation program were randomized to one of four conditions: exercise + smoking cessation maintenance, exercise maintenance + contact control, smoking cessation maintenance + contact control or contact control. The primary outcome was continuous smoking abstinence.
  
  
  
  Abstinence differences were found between the exercise and equal contact non-exercise maintenance groups at weeks 14 (57 vs 43 %), 26 (27 vs 21 %) and 56 (26 vs 23.5 %), respectively. Only the week 14 difference approached significance, p = 0.08.
  
  
  
  An exercise-aided NRT smoking cessation program with built-in maintenance components enhances post-intervention cessation rates at week 14 but not at weeks 26 and 56.
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada. hprapave@uwo.ca.
authors.forename: Harry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Prapavessis
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada.
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: De Jesus
authors.affiliation: Fanshawe College, 1001 Fanshawe College Boulevard, P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6, Canada.
authors.forename: Lindsay
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fitzgeorge
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto, 55 Harbord St., Rm #BN326, Toronto, ON, M5S 2W6, Canada.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Faulkner
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Health Innovation, School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maddison
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Batten
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D061485:Tobacco Use Cessation Devices; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Exercise; Maintenance; NRT; Smoking cessation