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Outcome from a Community-based Smoking Cessation Program for Persons with Serious Mental Illness

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Six and 12-month outcomes are reported on 79 mentally ill persons attending either a 4- or 8-session community-based smoking cessation group. Quit rates at post, 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-ups were 16, 19, 16, and 19%, respectively, with no significant effect of program length. These success rates are comparable to outcomes reported following group-based treatment with mentally healthy smokers. The majority of quitters used nicotine replacement therapy. Psychotropic medication dosages did not vary over time in quitters or non-quitters. No reductions in smoking were observed among non-quitters. Quitting smoking had no untoward effects on symptoms of mental illness or general functioning.

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This project was funded by an Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (Edmonton, AB, Canada) Tobacco Reduction Phase I grant. Each author has contributed significantly to the work and agrees on this submission.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Mental Health Information and Evaluation Unit, Calgary Health Region, Mental Health and Psychiatric Services, 206, 301-14th Street NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 2A1

    Shawn R. Currie

  2. University of Calgary and Calgary Health Region, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 2T9

    Shawn R. Currie

  3. Addictions Centre, Calgary Health Region, Mental Health and Psychiatric Services, 1403-29th Street NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 2T9

    Jordyn Karltyn, Debra Lussier, Erin de Denus, Diane Brown & Nady el-Guebaly

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Portions of this paper were presented at: Currie, S., Karltyn, J., Lussier, D., Brown, D., and el-Guebaly, N. (2005, September). Smoking cessation program for persons with severe and persistent mental illness. Presentation at Global Perspectives on Chronic Disease Management: The Calgary Conference, Calgary, AB.

Currie, S., Lussier, D., Karltyn, J., el-Guebaly, N., Brown, D., and Goodale, L. (2004, November). A community-based smoking cessation program for persons with chronic mental illness. Presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, New Orleans, LA.

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Currie, S.R., Karltyn, J., Lussier, D. et al. Outcome from a Community-based Smoking Cessation Program for Persons with Serious Mental Illness. Community Ment Health J 44, 187–194 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-007-9113-8

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