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Dietary intake after smoking cessation among weight-concerned women smokersMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 26:969-73. 2012..Future research to understand the relation between cessation and dietary intake needs to replicate and extend these findings to elucidate how, if at all, smoking cessation affects dietary intake...
Relapse to smoking and postpartum weight retention among women who quit smoking during pregnancyMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:457-9. 2012..Interventions to sustain smoking abstinence postpartum might be enhanced by components designed to minimize weight retention...- Weight concerns, mood, and postpartum smoking relapseMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Prev Med 39:345-51. 2010..Evidence suggests that changes in depressive symptoms, perceived stress, and concerns about weight may relate to postpartum smoking relapse... - Bupropion and cognitive behavioral therapy for weight-concerned women smokersMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:543-50. 2010..However, the efficacy of combining CONCERNS with cessation medication is unknown. We sought to determine if the combination of CONCERNS and bupropion therapy would enhance abstinence for weight-concerned women smokers... - Weight concerns affect motivation to remain abstinent from smoking postpartumMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15213, USA
Ann Behav Med 32:147-53. 2006..Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy, most resume smoking postpartum. One factor that may be important in postpartum relapse is a pregnant woman's motivation to remain abstinent after delivery... - Women's interest in treatment to stay abstinent from cigarettes postpartumMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Womens Health Issues 18:381-6. 2008..We sought to determine the acceptability of a postpartum smoking relapse prevention intervention and the appeal of strategies to address concerns about mood, stress, and weight to prevent postpartum relapse... - History of smoking and postcessation weight gain among weight loss surgery candidatesMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 United States
Addict Behav 32:2365-71. 2007..Because patients often receive recommendations to quit smoking and lose weight prior to surgery, additional information on the impact of presurgical smoking cessation on long-tem weight control in this population is needed... - Similarities in affect, perceived stress, and weight concerns between Black and White women who quit smoking during pregnancyMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 10:1543-8. 2008..In our sample of pregnant women who had quit smoking, Black and White women did not differ in mood and weight concerns, two potentially modifiable variables that may affect smoking postpartum relapse... 
Psychiatric disorders among bariatric surgery candidates: relationship to obesity and functional health statusMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:328-34; quiz 374. 2007..The present study was designed to document psychiatric disorders among candidates for weight loss surgery and to examine the relationship of psychopathology to degree of obesity and functional health status...- Relationship of psychiatric disorders to 6-month outcomes after gastric bypassMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 4:544-9. 2008..We sought to document the relationship of preoperative psychiatric disorders to the 6-month outcomes after gastric bypass... - Family-based treatment of severe pediatric obesity: randomized, controlled trialMelissa A Kalarchian
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Pediatrics 124:1060-8. 2009..We evaluated the efficacy of family-based, behavioral weight control in the management of severe pediatric obesity... - Weight gain prevention among womenMichele D Levine
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1267-77. 2007.... - Optimizing long-term weight control after bariatric surgery: a pilot studyMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 8:710-5. 2012.... - Overeating among seriously overweight children seeking treatment: results of the children's eating disorder examinationMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Int J Eat Disord 39:135-40. 2006.... - The return to smoking: 1-year relapse trajectories among female smokersCynthia A Conklin
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 7:533-40. 2005..Overall, the findings illustrate that, after relapsing, smokers do not follow a unitary course of smoking resumption; rather, they exhibit more variable resumption patterns than previously assumed... - Impact of addressing reasons for weight loss on behavioral weight-control outcomeMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Medical Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Prev Med 40:18-24. 2011..One way to improve weight control may be to place greater emphasis on the main reasons why individuals want to lose weight... - Children of mothers with borderline personality disorder: identifying parenting behaviors as potential targets for interventionStephanie D Stepp
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, PA 15213, USA
Personal Disord 3:76-91. 2012..We argue that mothers with BPD need psychoeducation regarding child development and recommended parenting practices and skills for providing consistent warmth and monitoring, including mindfulness-based parenting strategies... - Subjective sleep disturbance during a smoking cessation program: associations with relapseMichele L Okun
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Addict Behav 36:861-4. 2011..We describe sleep changes across three months among women in a smoking cessation program and tested whether sleep disturbances at baseline and 1 month post-quit attempt predicted smoking status at three months... - A history of depression and smoking cessation outcomes among women concerned about post-cessation weight gainMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA 15213, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 5:69-76. 2003..Moreover, because of the prevalence of depression history among this subgroup of women smokers and its impact on early attrition, additional engagement and retention strategies may be useful... - Childhood maltreatment and psychiatric morbidity in bariatric surgery candidatesJennifer E Wildes
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Obes Surg 18:306-13. 2008..e., emotional, physical, and sexual abuse and emotional and physical neglect) and Axis I and II psychiatric disorders in patients presenting for bariatric surgery... - Behavioral treatment of obesity in patients taking antipsychotic medicationsMelissa A Kalarchian
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 66:1058-63. 2005..Thus we sought to evaluate the potential utility of a behavioral weight control program for this population... - CBT4BN versus CBTF2F: comparison of online versus face-to-face treatment for bulimia nervosaCynthia M Bulik
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7160, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 33:1056-64. 2012..If not inferior, CBT4BN may be a cost-effective approach to service delivery for individuals requiring treatment for BN... - The Pittsburgh STOP program: disseminating an evidence-informed intervention for low-income pregnant smokersPatricia A Cluss
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Am J Health Promot 25:S75-81. 2011..We describe the intervention model and factors associated with quitting from the Pittsburgh STOP Program, an evidence-informed dissemination intervention for low-SES pregnant smokers... - Smoking-related weight concerns and obesity: differences among normal weight, overweight, and obese smokers using a telephone tobacco quitlineMichele D Levine
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Nicotine Tob Res 15:1136-40. 2013.... - Parenting behaviors of mothers with borderline personality disorder: a call to actionStephanie D Stepp
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
Personal Disord 3:104-6. 2012..Here, we highlight some of the authors' observations in hopes of sparking further discussion and interest in this area of research... - Differences in smoking patterns among women smokers with childhood versus later onset of weight problemsKaren K Saules
Eastern Michigan University, Psychology Department, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
Eat Behav 8:418-22. 2007..Future longitudinal studies with prospective measures of weight, dieting, and smoking initiation may be helpful in establishing causal pathways in different subgroups of smokers...
Research Grants
- Addressing Postpartum Mood and Weight Concerns to Sustain Smoking CessationMichele D Levine; Fiscal Year: 2010....