Acute aerobic exercise and cigarette smoking increased heart rate and skin conductance, but had no reliable effects on physiological responses to a mental arithmetic stressor.
Do acute aerobic exercise and cigarette smoking alter autonomic and neuromuscular responses to a cognitive stressor in male sedentary smokers?
Acute exercise and smoking alter baseline physiological parameters but do not significantly modify autonomic or neuromuscular responses to a subsequent cognitive stressor.
The effects of smoking and acute aerobic exercise as coping responses to stress were studied in 12 male sedentary smokers. Changes in heart rate, skin conductance, and electromyographic activity were assessed during the coping responses and a mental arithmetic stressor. Analysis showed smoking and exercise increased heart rate and skin conductance, while exercise reduced electromyographic activity. No reliable effects of the coping responses on heart rate, skin conductance levels, or electromyographic changes to the stressor were observed.
Russell et al. (Mon,) conducted a other in Sedentary smokers (n=12). Acute aerobic exercise and cigarette smoking was evaluated on Changes in heart rate, skin conductance, and electromyographic activity. Acute aerobic exercise and cigarette smoking increased heart rate and skin conductance, but had no reliable effects on physiological responses to a mental arithmetic stressor.