Endocrine Abstracts

Despite the known health hazards of cigarette smoking, many smokers fail to quit smoking, mainly due to nicotine’s addictiveness, but also because of fear from gaining weight. However, the mechanism of weight gain after smoking cessation is not fully elucidated yet.Healthy long-term smokers (28±2 years, 10F/20M, 23.4±1.3 kg/m2) participating in a smoking cessation programme underwent 3-hour oral glucose tolerance tests (oGTT) an...