playing sports will not always help you quit smoking

The tobacco-free month is an opportunity for many smokers to try to stop the consumption of this harmful health product that is cigarettes. Everyone goes with their little technique to try to initiate this 1er difficult month. Sport is one of them, but according to a recent study, it won't necessarily help you.

Tobacco Free Month, implemented by the Ministry of Health, acclaimed by the French Health and Public Health Insurance, begins on 1er November and lasts all month. Of course, the idea behind this smoke-free month is total cessation of smoking, or drastic reduction thereafter. It brings together smokers (or ex-smokers) and offers coaching on application via the smartphones as well as an online site that encourages participants with positive messages. Today, for example, we can see " Day 04: your taste develops again! Yum, yum "

In addition to all this, generally, people who smoke for a long time in large quantities and regularly need help to stop: addictologist, nicotine replacement, electronic cigarette, etc. And as stopping smoking is often accompanied by food compensation, some begin to practice an activity physical (if it was not already the case) to kill two birds with one stone: when I play sports, I do not think of smoking and I put in place a healthier lifestyle routine. Except that according to a recent Cochrane review, the effects of sports on smoking cessation at six months are uncertain and poorly documented.

Bias studies …

Researchers examined the data to find out if exercise helped people who want to quit smoking or who have recently quit smoking for at least six months. Scientists assume that sport could be useful at smoking cessation and may decrease cravings while dealing with weight gain problems.

The investigators took into account 21 studies with a total of 6,607 people. Two studies were primarily aimed at helping those who had recently quit smoking and the other studies included current smokers wishing to quit smoking. All studies have been conducted with adults. Eleven of them related only to women and only one to men. Most studies recruited people rather sedentary and offered supervised exercises, group type aerobic.

Conclusion: Exercise and smoking cessation programs did not provide better results than those smoking cessation programs. There is no evidence that exercise increases smoking cessation rates at least six months. However, the quality of the evidence is considered low by the authors of the review, who consider that better studies with different results could be a game-changer.

But it could still work

The study does not say anything on this subject but it is interesting to take into account other elements particularly on the side of the discipline such as "fouloscopy". Several studies have shown that our collective behavior has an impact on our individual behavior. In fact, if one of my friends smokes, statistically I have a better chance of smoking than if he did Sport. And conversely, if he does sports. What you need to understand is that, even if low-quality trials find it difficult to assess the impact of sport on smoking cessation, adopting healthier behaviors or rubbing shoulders with people who undertake them 'prove a serious asset in the fight against tobacco.

If you participate in the #Month without tobacco adventure, get together with a few smoking friends around this challenge, avoid meeting your friends who continue to smoke at least for a little while and get into physical activity: this can only do you good. After the No Tobacco Month, get help from an addictologist.

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