Adolescent Perception of Body Weight and Attractiveness:

Oral health‐related quality of life among an Australian sample of people who inject drugs

“…Our findings suggest that subjective perceptions and life impacts of this poor oral health, such as feeling self‐conscious when interacting with others, may be worse for female than for male PWID. This would be consistent with gender‐based issues around body image more generally, which show that poor body image impacts more on women than men .…”

Using Illicit Drugs to Lose Weight among Recovering Female Drug Users in China: An Exploratory Qualitative Study

“…Prior research has shown that there is a significant positive relationship between female adolescents’ substance use behaviors (including the use of alcohol, cigarettes, and illicit drugs such as marijuana and cocaine) and weight control attitudes and activities [ 14 , 15 ]. Body perception and weight loss expectations have been found to impact heavily on women’s illicit drug use [ 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 ].…”

Prospective Association between Dieting and Smoking Initiation among Adolescents

“…Results from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have indicated that smokers tend to worry more about their weight than do nonsmokers, and are more likely to believe in smoking as a weight-control strategy. 1,3,4,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Also, when compared with nondieters, dieting females reported more positive attitudes toward smoking and believed in smoking as a strategy to keep from eating. 19 The goal of the present study is to examine gender differences in the relation between dieting and the initiation of smoking and regular smoking among adolescents using longitudinal data.…”