Open AccessTreating Tobacco Dependence in Clinically Depressed Smokers: Effect of Smoking Cessation on Mental Health Functioning
Author(s) -
Judith J. Prochaska,
Sharon M. Hall,
Janice Y. Tsoh,
Stuart J. Eisendrath,
Joseph S. Rossi,
Colleen A. Redding,
Amy B. Rosen,
Marc Meisner,
Gary L. Humfleet,
Julie A. Gorecki
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2006.101147
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , mental health , medicine , depression (economics) , psychiatry , randomized controlled trial , quit smoking , depressive symptoms , tobacco use , clinical psychology , environmental health , anxiety , population , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
We analyzed data from a randomized trial of 322 actively depressed smokers and examined the effect of smoking cessation on their mental health functioning. Only 1 of 10 measures at 4 follow-up time points was significant: participants who successfully stopped smoking reported less alcohol use than did participants who continued smoking. Depressive symptoms declined significantly over time for participants who stopped smoking and those who continued smoking; there were no group differences. Individuals in treatment for clinical depression can be helped to stop smoking without adversely affecting their mental health functioning.