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Treadmill Exercise Improves Fitness and Reduces Craving and Use of Cocaine in Individuals with Concurrent Cocaine and Tobacco-use Disorder
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Exercise may be a useful treatment for substance use disorders. Participants (N=24) included treatment-seeking individuals with concurrent cocaine and tobacco-use disorder (cigarette smokers). Participants were randomized to either running or walking (30 min per session, 3 times per week) or sitting (control condition) for 4 consecutive weeks. Several metrics indicated significant differences among runners, walkers, and sitters during sessions, including mean distance covered and calories burned. In addition, remote physiological monitoring showed that the groups differed significantly according to mean maximum heart rate (HR), respiration, and locomotor activity. Across the 4-week study, exercise improved fitness measures including significantly decreasing resting HR. Though not statistically significant, exercise improved abstinence from cocaine and increased self-reports of no cocaine use in last 24h. In general, reductions in tobacco use and craving were not as robust. To our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate the effects of a multi-week exercise program in individuals with concurrent cocaine and tobacco-use disorder. The data clearly show significant improvements in basic fitness measures and several indices reveal that exercise improved both self-report and biochemically verified reports of cocaine abstinence. Taken together, the data from this study provides preliminary evidence for the efficacy of exercise for improving fitness and reducing cocaine use.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Tobacco use
Calorie
media_common.quotation_subject
medicine.medical_treatment
Craving
Sitting
Article
Nicotine
03 medical and health sciences
Cocaine-Related Disorders
0302 clinical medicine
Cocaine
Heart rate
medicine
Humans
Exercise
Biological Psychiatry
media_common
Tobacco Use Disorder
Abstinence
Middle Aged
030227 psychiatry
Exercise Therapy
Psychiatry and Mental health
Physical therapy
Smoking cessation
Female
Smoking Cessation
Self Report
medicine.symptom
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....faa024113636cbf19f2916059c028b0d