Exercise, perhaps in gym clothing, can help cannabis users to cut down on the amount of the drug that they smoke, a study has claimed.

Those who underwent a few sessions on a treadmill saw their cravings for the drug decrease by more than 50 per cent, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center study shows.

"There is no way currently to treat cannabis dependence with medication, so this is big considering the magnitude of the cannabis problem in the US," said co-author of the study Dr Peter Martin, director of the Vanderbilt Addiction Center.

He went on to say that this is the first study to show that exercise can cut cannabis use in people who do not want to give it up.

The study has been published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One.

According to quitsmokingsupport.com, smokers who take up a regular exercise programme are more likely to kick the habit than those who remain sedentary.

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