Smoking Cessation
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Smoking cessation often leads to weight gain, which can dissuade smokers from trying to quit or cause them to resume smoking.33,34 Increasing physical activity after quitting smoking can minimize weight gain, and a controlled trial found that adding exercise to a smoking cessation behavioral counseling program improved abstinence rates.35,36 However, other, smaller studies have not shown that exercise either alone or added to a comprehensive program helps to maintain abstinence.37,38 Adding weight control through dieting to smoking-cessation programs has resulted in either an increase in smoking relapses or no effect.39,40 Changing the diet at the same time as quitting smoking may require more discipline than most people can achieve.