Weight Concerns Associated With Delay in Quit Date But Not Treatment Outcomes: A Czech Republic Experience

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14110/18:00102175 RIV/00064165:_____/18:10376447

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntw276" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntw276</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntw276" target="_blank" >10.1093/ntr/ntw276</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Weight Concerns Associated With Delay in Quit Date But Not Treatment Outcomes: A Czech Republic Experience

Original language description

Background: Weight concerns are prevalent in smokers and may reduce the success rate of quitting. This concept has been primarily studied on US populations and it is unknown how weight concerns may differ cross-culturally. This study examined the role of weight concern in European smokers wishing to stop smoking. Methods: A sample of 593 smokers (299 men and 294 women, mean age 38 years) utilizing the Centre for Tobacco-Dependent in Prague, Czech Republic, between 2010 and 2013 were studied. Weight concerns were assessed at baseline prior to treatment by evidence-based stop smoking methods. Abstinence was evaluated at 12 months post baseline. Results: Approximately 34% of all patients (204/593) were classified as weight concerned (by indicating on the Weight Concern Scale that they would return to smoking after any weight gain) at the time they sought treatment. Among all men, 19.4% (58/299) were weight concerned and among all women, 49.7% (146/294) were weight concerned. Among females, weight-concerned smokers were of similar weight, but younger (p &lt;.001), and had been smoking cigarettes for fewer years (p =.002) compared with those without weight concerns, whereas the male weight-concerned smokers were significantly (p =.030) heavier than those without weight concerns. Although the presence of weight concern was associated with a delay in setting a quit date (log-rank test p =.019), it was not associated with abstinence at one year. Conclusion: The quit success rate of weight-concerned smokers in Czech Republic did not differ from those without weight concern when utilizing an individualized smoking cessation treatment program. Individually tailored tobacco dependence treatment could help to prevent weight concern from affecting successful quitting. Implications: This study adds the new cross-cultural aspect of post-cessation weight concern. Weight concern has been studied primarily on US populations and our sample consists of European sample of smokers. Additionally, we have found that the presence of weight concern lead to delay in setting a quit date, but the success rate of those weight concerned did not differ from those without weight concern. Thus, it is possible, that this individualized evidence-based tobacco treatment program was able to prevent weight concern impact towards successful quitting.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

ISSN

1462-2203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

89-94

UT code for WoS article

000425536400012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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