Time trends in access to smoking cessation support for people with depression or severe mental illness: a cohort study in English primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate delivery of smoking cessation interventions, recorded quit attempts and successful quitting rates within primary care in smokers with depression or severe mental illness (SMI) compared with those without.

Design

Longitudinal cohort study using primary healthcare records.

Setting

English primary care.

Participants

882 849 patients registered with participating practices recorded as current smokers during 2007-2014, including three groups: (1) 13 078 with SMI, (2) 55 630 with no SMI but recent depression and (3) 814 141 with no SMI nor recent depression.

Outcomes

Recorded advice to quit smoking, referrals to smoking cessation services, prescriptions for smoking cessation medication, recorded quit attempts and changes of smoking st

SUBMITTER: Falcaro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8647398 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature