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Intervention increases tobacco abstinence in people with SMI
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.31870
Subject(s) - abstinence , intervention (counseling) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychiatry , mental illness , smoking cessation , population , medicine , psychology , mental health , environmental health , pathology
Observing that people with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, are three times more likely to smoke than the wider population, contributing to widening health inequalities, researchers tested the effectiveness of a combined behavioral and pharmacological smoking‐cessation intervention targeted specifically at this population.