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Addictive Behaviors Volume 35, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages 983-988
Jump to full article: Science Direct, 2010-06-23
Intro: Little is known about the relationship between relative body weight and transition from experimentation to regular smoking in young adult women. In the current study, data from 2494 participants in wave 4 of the Missouri Adolescent Female Twin Study (aged 18–29 years) who reported ever smoking a cigarette were analyzed using logistic regression. . . .
Forty-five percent of women who had ever smoked had become regular smokers. Testing of interactions between potential covariates and levels of the categorical BMI variable revealed a significant interaction between overweight/obesity and childhood sexual abuse (CSA; p < 0.001) associated with regular smoking. Among women reporting CSA, the association between overweight/obesity and having become a regular smoker was negative (n = 374; OR = 0.48, 95% CI: 0.28–0.81). Both underweight and overweight/obesity were positively associated with transition to regular smoking among women who did not report CSA (n = 2076; OR = 1.57, 95% CI: 1.05–2.35 and OR = 1.73, 95% CI: 1.35–2.20, respectively). These results suggest that experiencing CSA alters the association between BMI and regular smoking in women who have experimented with cigarettes.
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