A Randomized Controlled Trial Vol. To determine if exercise, a healthful alternative to smoking, enhances the achievement and maintenance of smoking cessation. Additionally, exercise subjects were required to attend 3 supervised exercise sessions per week and control subjects were required to participate in 3 supervised health education lectures per week.
Vigorous exercise improves exercise capacity and delays weight gain following smoking cessation.
Arch Intern Med. Accepted for publication September 28, 1998. We thank Paul Thompson, MD, for his contributions to this trial. We thank Steve Blair, PED, Joseph Hogan, ScD, and 3 anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. We thank Beth Bock, PhD, Belinda Borrelli, PhD, Regina Traficante, MA, and Janice Tripolone, MS, for their numerous contributions to the implementation of this study.