Smoking cessation advice for people with serious mental illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with a serious mental illness are more likely to smoke more and to be more dependent smokers than the general population. This may be due to a wide range of factors that could include a common aetiology to both smoking and the illness, self medication, smoking to alleviate adverse effects of medications, boredom in the existing environment, or a combination of these factors. It is important to undertake this review to facilitate improvements in both the health and safety of people with serious mental illness who smoke, and to reduce the overall burden of costs (both financial and health) to the smoker and, eventually, to the taxpayer.

Objectives

To review the effects of smoking cessation advice for people with serious mental illness.

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SUBMITTER: Khanna P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6513396 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature