- Association of Restraint and Disinhibition to Gestational Weight Gain among Pregnant Former Smokers
- The present study evaluated the relationship of dietary restraint and disinhibition to GWG in a sample of women (n=248) who quit smoking before or early in pregnancy.
- Slane et al. Womens Health Issues. 2015 Jul-Aug. PMCID: PMC4492878
- Psychiatric disorders and gestational weight gain among women who quit smoking during pregnancy
- Pregnancy is a common time for women to quit using cigarettes and other substances. Such changes in substance use as well as other psychiatric and psychosocial changes during pregnancy can affect gestational weight gain (GWG). Thus, we evaluated the relationship between psychiatric disorders and GWG among pregnant women who had quit smoking.
- Levine et al. J Psychosom Res. 2015 May. PMCID: PMC4380755
- Strategies to Avoid Returning to Smoking (STARTS): A Randomized Controlled Trial of Postpartum Smoking Relapse Prevention Interventions Contemporary Clinical Trials
- The majority of women who quit smoking during pregnancy relapse postpartum and many experience increased depressive symptoms and concerns about body shape and weight. Given the relationship between weight concerns and negative mood with smoking relapse, interventions designed to address the postpartum experience are indicated. The intervention described in this report is designed to address stress, negative mood and concerns about weight that mediate smoking relapse postpartum to sustain abstinence and improve maternal and infant health.
- Levine et al. Contemp Clin Trials. 2013 Oct 17. PMCID: PMC3878443
- Change in body weight does not mediate the relationship between exercise and smoking cessation among weight-concerned women smokers.
- Exercise has received attention as a method to prevent or reduce post-cessation weight However, little is known about how weight changes following quit attempts contribute to the relationship between exercise and smoking cessation. The present study assessed how exercise relates to cessation and whether initial changes in exercise after quitting smoking promote cessation through attenuated weight gain.
- Emery et al. Nicotine Tob Res. 2015 Sep. PMCID: PMC4542740
- A test of the stress-buffering model of social support in smoking cessation: Is the relationship between social support and time to relapse mediated by reduced withdrawal symptoms?
- Social support has been linked to quitting smoking, but the mechanisms by which social support affects cessation are poorly understood. The current study tested a stress-buffering model of social support, which posits that social support protects or “buffers” individuals from stress related to quitting smoking. We hypothesized that social support would be negatively associated with risk of relapse, and that this effect would be mediated by reduced withdrawal and depressive symptoms (i.e., cessation-related stress) over time. Further, we predicted that trait neuroticism would moderate this mediational effect, such that individuals high in negative affectivity would show the greatest stress-buffering effects of social support.
- Creswell et al. Nicotine Tob Res. 2015 May. PMCID: PMC4498137
- Dietary intake after smoking cessation among weight-concerned women smokers.
- Weight gain typically accompanies smoking cessation, and women smokers concerned about postcessation weight gain are prone to substantial gain. Little is known about the ways in which cessation affects dietary Understanding postcessation changes in dietary composition may inform the design of smoking cessation interventions to address postcessation weight gain. Participants were women smokers concerned about postcessation weight gain enrolled in a randomized trial and assigned to either bupropion or placebo and to either standard cessation intervention or standard intervention plus components to address weight concerns.
- Levine et al. Psychol Addict Behav. 2012 Dec 26. PMCID: PMC3475794
- Subjective sleep disturbance during a smoking cessation program: Associations with relapse
- Sleep disturbance may affect smoking cessation We describe sleep changes across three months among women in a smoking cessation program and tested whether sleep disturbances at baseline and 1 month post-quit attempt predicted smoking status at three months.
- Okun et al. Addict Behav. 2011 Aug. PMCID: PMC3588159
- Bupropion and cognitive behavioral therapy for weight-concerned women smokers.
- We previously documented that cognitive behavioral therapy for smoking-related weight concerns (CONCERNS) improves cessation rates. However, the efficacy of combining CONCERNS with cessation medication is unknown. We sought to determine if the combination of CONCERNS and bupropion therapy would enhance abstinence for weight-concerned women smokers.
- Levine et al. Arch Intern Med. 2010 Mar 22. PMCID: PMC3113531
