Integrating tobacco cessation into mental health care for posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Most smokers with mental illness do not receive tobacco cessation treatment.

Objective

To determine whether integrating smoking cessation treatment into mental health care for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) improves long-term smoking abstinence rates.

Design, setting, and patients

A randomized controlled trial of 943 smokers with military-related PTSD who were recruited from outpatient PTSD clinics at 10 Veterans Affairs medical centers and followed up for 18 to 48 months between November 2004 and July 2009.

Intervention

Smoking cessation treatment integrated within mental health care for PTSD delivered by mental health clinicians (integrated care [IC]) vs referral to Veterans Affairs smoking cessation clinics (SCC). Patients receive

SUBMITTER: McFall M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4218733 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature