Mental health, smoking, harm reduction and quit attempts - a population survey in England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco control strategies have engendered overall declines in smoking; however, a large gap remains between people with and without mental health problems, causing substantial health inequalities. Population-level information on barriers and opportunities for improvements is scarce. We aimed to assess mental health status of cigarette smokers and recent ex-smokers ('past-year smokers') in England, and smoking and harm reduction behaviour and quit attempts by mental health status.

Methods

Data were collected from 5637 current and 434 recent ex-smokers in 2016/17 in household surveys of representative samples of adults. We calculated weighted prevalence of different indicators of mental health problem: a) ever diagnosis, b) none, moderate, serious past-month distre

SUBMITTER: Brose LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7427923 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature