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Quit and Fit: A Tobacco Cessation and Energy Balance Pilot for African Americans

NCT02103582 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2017-11-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Quit \& Fit intervention will be designed as a 12-week study to promote smoking cessation, increase physical activity levels, and reduce weight gain through regular exercise and healthy nutrition for African American Women smokers.

Patients will be assigned to the fitness intervention group or control groups by a computer.

Conditions

  • Smoking Cessation

Interventions

OTHER

Intervention

Participants who are randomized to the 'intervention arm' will be asked to come to the study site to exercise 3 days per week for 12 weeks. The exercise duration will increase over time from 75 minutes per week to 150 minutes per week. Intervention participants will have anthropometric measurements of weight, height, hip size and waist size taken at the beginning of the study, 6 weeks, and at 12 weeks. Intervention participants will also have a fitness test on a treadmill, full body scan, blood pressure, heart rate and questionnaires given at the beginning of the study, 6 weeks and at 12 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Georgetown University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
69 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2017-11-30
Completion
2017-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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