TABLE 2.

Assessment of eating behavior and weight gain according to the nicotine dependence level

Variables	FTND -Nicotine Dependence level			p
	Mild Mean±SD (Median)	Moderate Mean±SD (Median)	Heavy Mean±SD (Median)
DEBQ-Restrained eating
First score	23.67±4.76	25.15±7.32	21.43±7.9	1a0.06
Last score	29.33±4.76	26.96±8.45	26.02±8.63	1a0.63
First-Last change p-value2a	0.04*	0.09	<0.001
DEBQ-Emotional eating
First score	22.67±10.01 (21)	23.56±10.99 (19)	20.02±7.02 (17)	1b0.52
Last score	23.67±10.31 (21)	25.87±11.87 (22)	24.31±10.41 (21)	1b0.85
First-Last change p-value2b	0.69	0.03	0.007*
DEBQ-External eating
First score	29.67±4.59	26.64±6.6	26.33±5.71	1a0.46
Last score	31.67±4.18	28.36±6.18	29.6±8.13	1a0.44
First-Last change p-value2a	0.47	0.09	0.005*
Weight gain
First weight	74±14.46	74.07±14.42	75.12±12.92	1a0.93
Last weight	77.17±15.01	78.25±14.14	80.24±13.31	1a0.74
First-Last change	3.17±1.33 (3)	4.33±2.5 (4)	5.5±2.76 (5)	1b0.01*
Weight change p-value2a	0.002*	<0.001	<0.001

SD: Standard deviation; DEBQ; Dutch eating behavior questionnaire.

^1aOneway ANOVA test;

^1bKruskal Wallis test;

^2aPaired samples t-test;

^2bWilcoxon sign test;

^*p-value<0.05.