Background There is currently much focus on provision of general physical health advice to
people with serious mental illness and there has been increasing pressure for services to …

Tobacco dependence is the leading cause of death in persons with psychiatric and
substance use disorders. This has lead to interest in the development of pharmacological …

Introduction: Mental health inpatients smoke at higher rates than general population
smokers. However, provision of nicotine-dependence treatment in inpatient settings is low …

Introduction Hospitalization is a unique opportunity for smoking cessation, but prior
interventions have measured efficacy with narrowly defined populations. The objective of …

Objective: Approximately three-quarters of people with severe mental illnesses smoke
cigarettes, and the rate is even higher among those with co-occurring substance use …

Cigarette smoking expectancies are systematically related to intention to quit smoking in
adult smokers without psychiatric illness, but little is known about these relationships in …

The association between schizophrenia and tobacco smoking has been described in more
than 1,000 articles, many with inadequate methodology. The studies on this association can …

Introduction This study determined the effectiveness of the Tobacco Tactics intervention.
Design/setting/participants This was a pragmatic, quasi-experimental study conducted from …

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a smoking cessation programme for smokers
living with mental illness, provided within community mental health services, and determine …

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