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Objective: Food and beverage preferences and exercise activities suppress the desire to smoke and extend the cessation period. The aim of the present study was to investigate effects of food consumption and physical activities on the success of a smoking cessation program. Methods: In our retrospective cohort study, demographics, smoking cessation therapy features, levels of addiction, treatment results, food preferred in case of desire to smoke during follow-up, and physical activities of 119 patients monitored within the scope of smoking cessation program in our site were recorded. The data of the groups with successful and unsuccessful smoking cessation were analyzed by comparison. Results: The successful group had more patients who quit smoking within the first one month in the treatment process and gained weight than the unsuccessful group (p<0.001 and p<0.001, respectively). Compared to the successful group, the unsuccessful group recorded a higher level of addiction and relapse (p=0.04, p=0.001, respectively). The use of varenicline and nicotine gum among pharmacological treatments did not differ between groups, nicotine patch was more frequently used higher in the unsuccessful group (p=0.046). The successful group also had more patients who consumed hedonic diet among the behavioral strategies in case of urge to smoke (p=0.04). Conclusion: The preference for hedonic foods in case of urge to smoke in patients who underwent smoking cessation treatment and implementing multiple strategies are associated with the success of the treatment, unlike exercise activity. This study may provide preliminary support for an eating strategy using a dietary plan and multi-strategy for the success of smoking cessation programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To determine the smoking cessation rates of outpatients with cardiopulmonary disease and the differences between non-cardiopulmonary diseases. Methods: Two hundred and two active smokers with comorbid diseases were prospectively evaluated between September 2004 and January 2008 in this observational study. All of the patients answered Fagerstrom test for nicotine dependence with a regular questionnaire of general characteristics. Behavioral counseling therapies were administered to all of the subjects. Nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion or combination therapies were the pharmacological therapies after running the baseline spirometry and carbon monoxide oximetry tests. Subjects were classified as patients with cardiopulmonary disease (124) and non-cardiopulmonary diseases (78), based on medical history. Student t and Chisquare tests were used for statistical analyses. Results: The age of smoking was similar but total amount of smoked tobacco was higher (p<0.05) in the cardiopulmonary diseases group. In this group, the main smoking cessation reason was the existing disease (51%) (p<0.05). There was no other significant difference between two groups including treatment protocols. The smoking cessation rates were less (40%) with high relapses (12%) in cardiopulmonary diseases group (p<0.01 and p=0.01 respectively). In the subgroup analysis, treatment procedures were equivalent (p>0.05). Conclusion: Results of this analysis confirm that, tobacco dependence is still a severe but necessary condition for the patients with cardiopulmonary diseases. Additionally neither of the treatment protocols was superior to the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]