{"id":1845,"date":"2014-06-04T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T21:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2014-06-08T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T20:19:00","slug":"team-sports-could-help-smokers-quitq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/team-sports-could-help-smokers-quitq\/","title":{"rendered":"Team sports could help smokers quit<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english3.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english3\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study reveals that adolescents who practice team sports have a better ability to quit smoking, while those who are watching their weight have a harder time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers followed the smoking and lifestyle habits of 620 high school students in the Montreal region between 1999 and 2005. They found that the male students, older students, and those that played team sports had an easier time quitting, while those who reported family tensions, concern about weight, and consumption of illicit drugs had a harder time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cebp.aacrjournals.org\/content\/23\/6\/1090.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the the journal\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &amp; Prevention<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 3, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marie-Pierre Sylvestre, University of Montreal,\u00a0Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jennifer O\u2019Loughlin, University of Montreal, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals that adolescents who practice team sports have a better ability to quit smoking, while those who are watching their weight have a harder time. Researchers followed the smoking and lifestyle habits of 620 high school students in the Montreal region between 1999 and 2005. They found that the male students, older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,476,849,1666,1494],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health","tag-quebec-en","tag-smoking","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-tL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}