Abstract
Abstract
[Objective] For extension of the healthy life expectancy and the adequacy of the medical cost, the smoking cessation measure is important as well as weight control and the acquisition of the exercise custom. Measures specialized in a metabolic syndrome from 2008 became the imposition to a medical underwriter, and a choice condition of the specific health guidance increased a smoking custom in that, and the smoking cessation promotion became the pivot of these measures again. However the body weight gain after the smoking cessation disturb a nonsmoking start or nonsmoking continuation. Therefore, this study examined the risk of body weight gain after the smoking cessation from the result of the periodical medical examination and lifestyle investigation in Japanese workers.
[Methods] We carried out a medical examination and lifestyle investigation in Japanese workers. There were divided into four groups of the non-smoking group, the smoking group, the smoking cessation group, re-smoking group. We examined the relations of a change and the weight change of the weight loss awareness and the relations of the body weight gain and corpulence-related index after the smoking cessation.
[Results] The body weight gain after the smoking cessation raised weight loss awareness. In addition, body weight gain was accepted in the smoking cessation group, but, as for the influence on corpulence by the body weight gain-related index, a meaningful change was recognized to all four groups.
[Conclusion] That there was individual difference was suggested by the transformation of the habit of others such as a dietary habit or the exercise custom that were able to include age and a drinking custom without becoming the factor to let the number of the corpulence-related index and risk indexes always increase as for the body weight gain after the smoking cessation.
