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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2013

Smokers with behavioral health comorbidity should be designated a tobacco use disparity group.

Jill M Williams, Marc L Steinberg, Kim Gesell Griffiths, Nina Cooperman

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Article in American journal of public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Behavioral Activation mHealth Application for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2024
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  9. Supervised, Vigorous Intensity Exercise Intervention for Depressed Female Smokers: A Pilot Study.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017
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  10. Cost-Effectiveness of Integrating Tobacco Cessation Into Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016
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  12. Gender differences in a randomized controlled trial treating tobacco use among adolescents and young adults with mental health concerns.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2015
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  18. Experiences of Tobacco Smoking and Quitting Among Mental Health Consumers.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jill M WilliamsUniversity of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-2008, USA. jill.williams@umdnj.edu
Marc L Steinberg
Kim Gesell Griffiths
Nina Cooperman

Funding

Developing a Smoking Cessation Intervention for Methadone Maintained SmokersK23DA025049 · NIDA · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI COOPERMAN, NINA · 2009 to 2013
$807k
Persistence-Targeted Smoking CessationR34DA030652 · NIDA · UNIV OF MED/DENT NJ-R W JOHNSON MED SCH · PI STEINBERG, MARC L · 2011 to 2013
$720k
NIDA NIH HHS 1R34DA030652NIDA NIH HHS 5K23DA025049NIDA NIH HHS K23 DA025049NIDA NIH HHS R34 DA030652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Smokers with co-occurring mental illness or substance use disorders are not designated a disparity group or priority population by most national public health and tobacco control groups. These smokers fulfill the criteria commonly used to identify groups that merit special attention: targeted marketing by the tobacco industry, high smoking prevalence rates, heavy economic and health burdens from tobacco, limited access to treatment, and longer durations of smoking with less cessation. A national effort to increase surveillance, research, and treatment is needed. Designating smokers with behavioral health comorbidity a priority group will bring much-needed attention and resources. The disparity in smoking rates among persons with behavioral health issues relative to the general population will worsen over time if their needs remain unaddressed.

Indexed as

Health Status DisparitiesComorbidityFemaleHealth Care CostsHealthcare DisparitiesHealth PrioritiesHumansMaleMental DisordersPrevalenceSmokingSmoking CessationSmoking PreventionUnited States

Identifiers

PMID23865661
PMCPMC3776478

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