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Smoking Cessation and Changes in Body Mass Index Among Middle Aged and Older Adults
11 University of Denver, CO, USA.
Objective:
This study contributes to the body of literature examining smoking cessation and body mass index (BMI) for adults aged 50 and older.
Method:
Utilizing the 2004 and 2010 waves of the RAND Health and Retirement Study, this analysis utilized Fixed Effects (FE) regression on a sample of 1,316 adults aged 50 and older.
Results:
Older adults undergo a small change in BMI after a transition from smoking to nonsmoking during a 6-year period, and this occurs after accounting for individual-level unobserved heterogeneity. More specifically, men experience a BMI gain of 1.24 ( p< .01) and women experience a BMI gain of 1.58 ( p< .01).
Discussion:
Gerontologists/health professionals can use these results to inform older adults about the potential for a small increase in BMI and, in the process, assuage any apprehensions about excessive weight gain. This insight may encourage a greater number of older adults to cease smoking.
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