Smoking Cessation and Severity of Weight Gain in a National Cohort
Open Access
- 14 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 324 (11), 739-745
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199103143241106
Abstract
Many believe that the prospect of weight gain discourages smokers from quitting. Accurate estimates of the weight gain related to the cessation of smoking in the general population are not available, however.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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